"Well, no. But do you think about it all the time? Is preventing violent assault or murder part of your daily routine, rather than merely something you do when you venture into war zones? Because, for women, it is."
"Twitter is set to roll out enhanced profile pages after Feb. 1, a source tells us, and those pages will give brands the ability to build platforms on their pages that could include iFrame environments, allowing users to play games or shop on a brand’s site without actually leaving the Twitter environment."
"Gojee is so secretive, they wouldn’t even tell us why they were being so secretive. Since launching in July 2011, the company has 300,000 members signed up and told us they’ve done no advertising, marketing or SEO.
They’re sticking strictly to the old fashioned “word-of-mouth” method. In contrast to what most companies are doing right now, Gojee wants to create a private experience, sort of the “anti-community."
"It may be that the internet simply makes the big box brick-and-mortar retailer economically unviable, and that one day, we’ll have to buy big ticket items on faith, without being able to look at them ahead of time. Perhaps the internet will get better at showing us our merchandise, developing virtual avatars so that we can try on clothes and put furniture in our rooms. Or perhaps some entrepreneur will go into the showroom business: pay $5, and browse to your heart’s content."
"But to do this, retailers need the cooperation of the manufacturers. Target needs specialized products that can’t be procured anywhere else—or at least, products that are sufficiently hard to compare to the stuff on Amazon."
"I am beginning to worry that our unusually young and good looking UPS guy thinks there is an ulterior motive behind the volume of our orders."
"But they can also choose an option that is increasingly rare and precious—four years of study and self-discovery, and a brief window of time when, for once, gender truly doesn’t matter."
"We had assumed … that after the pioneering years of undergraduate education at Princeton, women would have moved steadily into more and more prominence in campus leadership … [Instead] there has been a pronounced drop-off in the representation of women in these prominent posts since around 2000."
"The obvious question was how you blend it in with a venue’s aesthetics,” Adam Johnson, cofounder and CEO of The Juicebox, told Fast Company. “How you make it sexy and not just some piece of shit box that’s plastered with ads and has ports hanging out of the bottom."
"Most recruiters report that at least 50% of job hunters don’t possess the basic qualifications for the jobs they are pursuing."
"To pivot is, essentially, to fail gracefully. While the term has been in the start-up lexicon for decades, it is coming up more often in the current Internet boom, as entrepreneurs find that many investors are willing to keep the money flowing even if a start-up takes a hard left turn."
"In 2011 alone, the Austin, Texas–based chain expanded its proprietary line of value-priced packaged goods; created close to 6,000 jobs; established a foundation to combat childhood obesity; and reinstated its quarterly dividend, which it promptly hiked. Same-store sales have increased for eight consecutive quarters, and the company recently topped the $10 billion sales mark."
"I know this sounds kind of weird, but we have a different relationship,” she said. “We’re not in seventh grade. I trust him in a different way, I suppose."
"In a 2011 telephone survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 30 percent of teenagers who were regularly online had shared a password with a friend, boyfriend or girlfriend. The survey, of 770 teenagers aged 12 to 17, found that girls were almost twice as likely as boys to share. And in more than two dozen interviews, parents, students and counselors said that the practice had become widespread."
