As Saxena explained, Poshmark has come a long way since its co-founders were manually contacting and onboarding users. What was the first customer foothold for your organization that formed a foundation for your later success? Poshmark was founded in 2011 because our co-founders felt that the...
So, scientists had theorized about the informational role of DNA for a long time, but nobody knew how this information was encoded and transmitted. Many scientists guessed that the structure of the molecule was important to this process. In 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered th...
Christian:So we generally like smaller things the most, and the reason why we like that is because our model is typically built on international sales and exports. And shipping big things like a sofa long distance, if it goes out to the customer and then they figure out that the color fe...
This is a long journey that requires serious commitment and continuous collaboration across multiple departments. Where and how to begin? As with most large-scale transformations, there is no single or correct path to the end state. However, several steps can certainly increase the rate of a ...
New data sources are always emerging, but not all of it is equally valuable. A more diverse group of people, with greater agility to work with the data can incubate insight and help you instantiate the blueprint for the bigger factory. ...
Powdered milk can be reconstituted and used as you would fresh liquid milk. If you wanted to, you could make other cheeses with powdered milk as well as long as you have the right cultures.Ricki Carroll’s Home Cheesemaking bookgives instructions for a variety of cheeses. Most of us, espe...
Building an adaptive workforce has long been on the agenda of energy providers, and the issue is reaching new levels of urgency. Digitization has increased dramatically, eliminating simple customer interactions, and operational tasks have been automated or moved to self-serve. Overcoming existing custom...
In 2020, in the wake of COVID-19, a lot of people have found themselves with more free time on their hands than ever before, and many have realized the need for a solid rest ethic: Rest is not simply a result of free time. It is a skill that needs to be learned. It is someth...
SM:What are students saying about the impact of COVID-19? LJ:They’re scared. I think any parent that has a child approaching college or graduating college is looking at the current unemployment rate and asking, ‘Where does my child fit in?’. We need to get ahead of this...
It allows you to take a sample of blood from a COVID-19-recovered patient, separate out the immune cells and put them into different "pens" on a machine they're called "nanopens"—with optical tweezers... You incubate them and have them make antibodies. ...