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Digital marketing agency, Brainlabs, has acquired Manchester-based User Conversion for an undisclosed sum.

Top 15 Serial Entrepreneurs In The World T op 15 Serial Entrepreneurs in the World. Click to skip ahead and jump to the Top 5 Serial Entrepreneurs in the World. Serial entrepreneurs start new companies, make them successful, and sell them to move on to their next startup. Serial entrepreneurship is on the rise in the U.S. Success stories of figures like Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Square founder Jim McKelvey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia, 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki and several others are fueling inspiration across the country among young people to launch startups. ...

2020 was a horrific year in many ways. The COVID-19 pandemic led to over 400,000 deaths in the U.S., over 22 million people lost their jobs, and the U.S. economy lost billions of dollars. Meanwhile, a new administration was sworn in on Jan. 20, faced with three major crises. The new president must deal with 1) the raging pandemic, 2) the economic problems due to so many Americans being out of work, and 3) the newest crisis that became painfully apparent on Jan. 6 — the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. .............................................................

Challenges Beat Resolutions—Every Day of the Week Set yourself a task with a clear completion, however small, and start your streak As a young comedian, Jerry Seinfeld hung a big calendar on his wall. He began writing jokes every day. After he wrote, he put a big red X over that day. According to Seinfeld: “After a few days you’ll have a chain… Your only job is to not break the chain.” Seinfeld didn’t resolve to become a great comedian. He challenged himself to write every day. See the difference? It’s not just semantics. Challenges are action oriented, whereas resolutions are o...

Have you found your mind wandering during lockdown? Credit: Rick Gomez/ Corbis As the rules keep changing, and the news grows more jaw-dropping, our ability to remain focused on daily activities – on almost anything else – feels more and more elusive. In some ways that’s not surprising. In 2010 Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert at Harvard developed a phone app that asked 2,250 users to record what they were thinking and feeling, as well as what they were doing, at random times throughout the day. Results revealed mind wandering occurred 46.9 per cent of the time – then under �...