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Stop trying to invent the next Facebook or Amazon

The story of Zoom founder Eric S. Yuan is an entrepreneurial fable that proves even the most crowded markets are never truly full. Before launching his online conferencing and collaboration   product, Zoom’s Yuan ran engineering for Cisco’s   WebEx. He expanded the WebEx team from 10 engineers to 800 and grew revenues from $0 to over $800 million annually. Yuan was the heart of WebEx from 1997 to 2011, but he wasn’t happy. The product wasn’t good enough. Yuan (and many customers) thought it was slow, multimedia streams were often shaky, and it lacked modern features for mobile. For years, Yuan campaigned Cisco execs to let him rework WebEx and build video conferencing on the cloud, but the existing product was still earning serious cash. His bosses saw no reason to risk a reboot. So, Yuan left in 2011 to build Zoom. “Cisco made a mistake,” he recently   told F orbes  magazine. “Three years after I left, they realized what I said was right.” Was he ...

Stop Making Everything Perfect For Your Kid

There was a kid running at the neighborhood pool the other day. The pool attendant asked him to walk — as pool attendants have done since pools existed. The boy’s dad — a big-chested, serious kind of guy — came over to the attendant and told him (I swear I’m not making this up), that as the child’s father, he’s the only one to tell his kid what to do, and that if the attendant has something to say, it should be directed at him, don’t talk to his kid; he’ll decide if his kid needs direction. My own kid, running at the pool. The attendant kept his cool (I would have rolled my eyes or worse) and replied — carefully — that it was his job to make sure that people follow the pool rules, and “no running” is pretty much the universal pool rule. The dad pushed back and added some aggressive posturing to intimidate the pool guy, saying that he didn’t see anything wrong with what his kid was doing, so, as far as he was concerned, the pool guy needs to back off. In summary: The kid was ...

Want To Complete At-home Workouts?Try A Weight Bench!

Most of us are employed in a traditional 9 to 5 job, and don’t have the luxury of choosing when we work out in the morning or in the evening. Going to a gym after a long day of work and not mentioning the long commute back and forth to your local gym can make you wonder... do I need a  weight bench  at home? Do You Need A W eight Bench ? You might need to consider getting a  workout bench for home  if you Don’t like working out around other people Don’t want to wait for equipment Don’t want to worry about gym open hours Want to workout whenever Want to save time and money driving to and from the gym Want to save on gym membership Want to build your confidence in your own pace at home What a  Weight Bench  Can Do for You? A high-quality workout bench supports exercises that boost muscle size, strength, and endurance. It can help you get a better strength training workout at home. Some benches are flat, some are adjustable s...