Motivational / Self Achievement

Meet Veronika Kolesnikova, Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Massachusetts in this Quick Byte interview with Disruptive Technologists' own Lauren Keyson. Veronika has also been awarded a Microsoft MVP (AI) and is passionate about backend web development and Microsoft technologies like C#, .NET, and Azure. She is a speaker and hackathon volunteer who loves mobile, ML, and AR technologies. She also holds a master's degree in Information Technology. In this

As a Founder and CEO of Gusher, a Venture Capital disruptor, and a company creator, Chris Joyce has become a LinkedIn user extraordinaire! By using video, text, and photos, he uses his real-life experiences to encourage startup founders to go for their dreams. A short while back he talked on LinkedIn about an encounter with his father —and it stuck with me as I experienced a similar hospital situation recently with my own incredible stepfather. This might ring true for you

Fear is a Feeling. Courage is a Choice. Fear is a normal emotional reaction to threat or danger. It can be sudden and surprising in its intensity. Or it can be sneaky, almost hidden, and equally unsettling in its power. We don’t choose our emotions—at least, not at the time they come to us. But we can choose our response to them, and our habits of that choice will invite some emotions more than others into our lives over time. What we choose in the face of fear will shape h

Panelists at the Disruptive Technologists Webinar discuss dangerous times of pandemic, riots, and job loss and offer positive and pragmatic solutions for the future: How specific new technology products can simplify things, can give us the opportunity to address systemic racism, and can overcome challenges in order to differentiate between the individual and the small group thinking. WATCH THE EVENT June 24, 2020 SPONSORED BY MCCARTER & ENGLISH "If people can pursue their pur

Watch the Viziotagged version of the Podcast with Jason Saltzman. Jason Saltzman is the CEO & Co-Founder of Alley . He talks with Dania Hammad about building a post-business incubator and shared workspace for entrepreneurs. Alley deals with early-stage companies and with several of the largest companies in the world by bridging the resource gap. Smaller companies have little to no resources and no way to grow. Larger companies have tons of resources but don’t know how to de

It’s no news that women founders and executives are proving themselves in all walks of life and adding value from their unique perspectives. Yet there are some sectors that won’t particularly be considered a woman’s territory-- such as the gaming industry. But this landscape is changing. Kate Gorman , a veteran in the mobile gaming industry, is creating a portfolio of socially infused games. She is the founder, CEO, and President of Fort Mason Games , a modern mobile gaming c

BY BENJAMIN HARDY How This Checklist Works Obviously, you don’t need to do all of the things on the following four pages. Think of this checklist as a buffet from which you can select the one’s that work for you. Note: there are likely several things you may try that aren’t on this list. Also, your morning routine will likely change over time depending on the various seasons of your life. For example, sometimes I’m highly focused on writing and thus my morning routine is di

By Lauren Keyson and Sarah Grieco Lauren Keyson: This is Jack Noble, the youngest partner at DeSilva Phillips. How did you get to be the youngest person at this company? Jack Noble: Well I started on the ground floor as an intern with Yale for undergrad. Then I spent a summer at a company in Alabama where I am from called EBSCO Industries. They are a 2.5 billion privately held business that owns 40 different companies. I worked in the acquisitions group for a summer, and t

By Ivy Cohen This year my small business celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. Pop open the champagne because we’ve beaten the odds. According to Dun & Bradstreet, businesses with fewer than 20 employees have only a 37 percent chance of surviving four years and only a 9 percent chance of surviving 10 years. This made me consider why some small businesses succeed while others don't. Some may be a result of the experience and skill of the founder or startup team while othe

Manish Chowdhary , Founder & CEO of GoECart , said that he bases his way of hiring on Daniel Pink’s studies . Manish Chowdhary Pink, author of The Truth of Motivation , researched behaviors to figure out what really motivates employees. “He was trying to dispel certain myths that people have,” explained Chowdhary. “What he arrived at is that the three things most people truly value is Autonomy, the ability to direct their own lives; Mastery, you want to do something really

By Jim Tousignant The reality is that you can’t be an entrepreneur without being positive -- you would never take the risk. If you’re not positive you won’t even start, you won’t live up to challenge and you won’t believe you can do it. You won’t believe you’re successful. You have to have a positive attitude just to start it. Tom D’Ambrosio On Negative Bias We believe the world is a negative place. For years there has been a natural negative bias in the media that’s been gr

The Hardwired Brain Your brain is hardwired from a hundred thousand years ago. You had a fight or flight syndrome back there. Your brain is hardwired to sleep, eat and produce, try to survive, and keep your lineage going. Evolutionary-wise your brain doesn’t want you to take risks. It has become a self-reinforcing negative because it doesn’t want you to take risks -- and entrepreneurship by definition is insanely risky. There is the pain and frustration of not being able t

"A disruptive innovation helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network, often entirely displacing earlier technologies." TEDxBigApple's 2012 event this week in the West Village was themed around disruptive ideas with near-term impact in housing, biotech, local spaces, biomaterials, and fashion. It focused on ideas that are likely to change the world in the near term instead of those whose impact is in the p