When last year’s flu vaccine turned out to be ineffective 80 percent of the time, it did not necessarily have to turn into a flu pandemic. The good news about living in 2018, Doctor on Demand CEO Hill Ferguson told Karen Webster, is that the...
Before Benji Lanyado founded photography marketplace Picfair, he was a journalist covering the travel beat for a “publication whose name you would know” facing an ongoing problem. The images he had to choose from for supporting his stories weren’t very good. Not in a technical sense — they...
Businesses of all kinds have a need for high-quality photo and video content on a near-constant basis. Even in a retail era where businesses and brands actively solicit user-created photos for their websites, apps and social media streams, there is still a need for professional...
Nearly everyone carries a mobile phone, the absence of which can produce a sharp sensation of dread and perhaps even spark panic. A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities, and set...
The process for buying a toaster oven should not be more transparent or more reliable than the process for buying a house. A toaster oven — even if things go poorly — does not have the power to ruin one’s life. Worst case scenario: one...
There is a lot to be gained by matching senior citizens with college students, a lesson learned by Papa Founder and CEO Andrew Parker when he did some manual matchmaking for his own granddad a few years back. Solving his personal problem became a professional...
Like many of the innovators who build and launch their own platform businesses, Ethan Agarwal’s business, Aaptiv, was inspired by a big friction that he found difficult to overcome. Agarwal told Karen Webster in the latest episode of The Matchmaker Is In that he’d put on some weight while in graduate school...
The good thing about absentee landlords, or oft-maligned open-space offices? They provide an opening for businesses that can use digital technology to match office managers with the suppliers and service providers who keep workplaces clean and properly maintained. That opportunity was the topic of this...
As the Silent Generation is aging deeper into their 80s, and the oldest members of the Baby Boomer Generation are celebrating birthdays deeper into their 50s, elder care in the United States is becoming a more pressing and complicated issue by the day. Yet, Karen.care Co-founder...
