Small Business & Startups
Expert advice on navigating your business and tips and tactics to being your own boss and forging a successful career.
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Build A DIY Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Generator That Kills Small Electronics
If you want to get your hands dirty on a semi-evil electronics project, this DIY EMP generator is fun – if not a little dangerous – build to try. It won’t fry much, except at extreme short range, so you should be careful with it, but you’ll learn a lot in the process.
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Cisco Spark Gets Voice Assistant
Cisco is jumping in on the AI-powered voice assistant game with the introduction of Spark Assistant – a kind of Siri for meetings. You can things like “Hey, Spark. I want to start the meeting” and the software will do all the work to get you connected. While the announcement was made today, Spark Assistant…
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Ask LH: What Promotional Merchandise Should My Company Buy?
Dear Lifehacker, Would you be able to suggest some merchandise to put my small business logo on? (Aside from the obvious calendar and business card options.) I want something useful like a mug, but that’s cool/quirky enough to stand out and be noticed. The aim is to get people talking about our brand without having…
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A Penny Pincher’s Guide To Entrepreneurship
One of the biggest roadblocks holding us all back from that awesome business idea is the belief that we don’t have enough money. Enough money to kickstart the project, enough money to keep it going and enough money in profits to make it worthwhile. We asked an expert about how to overcome the financial pitfalls…