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| How 'Diversity Fatigue' Undermines Business Growth Mon, 14 May 2012 16:39:44 EDT Companies with diverse leadership teams do better financially. Failing to hire individuals with different backgrounds and perspectives limits your prospects |
| Hospitals Seek Startups to Cure Tech Ills Fri, 11 May 2012 15:13:49 EDT A new accelerator for health IT companies is working with health-care providers to find crucial new technologies |
| When Should Domain Names Match Company Names? Fri, 11 May 2012 12:17:45 EDT For businesses selling to other businesses, it doesn't much matter. Even most ventures targeting consumers shouldn't sweat it in their early days |
| Lookout Safeguards Smartphones, but Do Consumers Care? Thu, 10 May 2012 18:45:47 EDT The startup's security app detects threats, yet many users are unconcerned |
| Integrated Marketing: If You Knew It, You'd Do It Thu, 10 May 2012 14:04:57 EDT The glut of places to advertise makes it easy to confuse customers with contradictory messages. Execute a strategy that integrates all your efforts |
| More Farms Vie for the $1 Billion Spent at Farmers Markets Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:46 EDT As more Americans buy locally grown food, family farms are increasingly bypassing middlemen and selling direct |
| Old as New: Fixing E-Waste Instead of Scrapping It Tue, 08 May 2012 16:59:54 EDT A scrappy British electronics recycler finds profitability by repairing broken gadgets and appliances—and then reselling them |
| Odd Jobs: White House Chimney Sweep Tue, 08 May 2012 16:30:19 EDT Jeff Schmittinger has been at it for 19 years and hasn't been paid a dime |
| The Silver Lining to the Drop in Startups Tue, 08 May 2012 13:56:40 EDT Over the past three decades, the rate of new-business creation has declined dramatically—but so has the rate of business failures |
| Protect Your Company's Website From Malware Mon, 07 May 2012 17:26:24 EDT While most business owners are aware of computer viruses, they're less likely to guard against malicious software installed surreptitiously on their websites |
| Wringing Lessons From Microworkz's Failure Fri, 04 May 2012 16:31:21 EDT Correct mistakes quickly, hire "hunters," and be willing to take no for an answer. The founder of the failed PC maker offers startup advice |
| Girish Navani: Examining a City's Health Thu, 03 May 2012 19:53:35 EDT With a trove of electronic health data, his company EClinicalWorks aims to help communities and hospitals make better policy and treatment decisions |
| Apollo Jets: Jock Air Thu, 03 May 2012 19:45:12 EDT Convicted stock swindler Al Palagonia has reinvented himself as the private jet broker of choice for top athletes |
| Startups Party at the Patent Office Thu, 03 May 2012 19:43:31 EDT Startups once ignored intellectual-property issues; now they protect innovations early |
| Tech Entrepreneurs' Culinary Second Act Thu, 03 May 2012 19:40:33 EDT Opening a restaurant might be the only pursuit riskier than tech startups |
| Hard Drives That Stretch to Infinity Thu, 03 May 2012 19:37:28 EDT Google finally offers cloud storage, but startups Dropbox and Box have momentum |
| Numero Group: Soul Revivers Thu, 03 May 2012 19:20:18 EDT How three record buffs who flout the rules of business turned their crate-digging skills into the profitable new music label Numero |
| Ronan and Colin Hannan's Ka'ana Belize Resort Thu, 03 May 2012 19:10:14 EDT Two Irish brothers ditched their careers, moved to Belize, and opened a 17-room hotel |
| Grateful Dead Smiles and Aerosmith Testimonials: A Manufacturer's YouTube Strategy Thu, 03 May 2012 06:00:23 EDT Guitar effects-pedal maker Pigtronix has built an effective marketing strategy around YouTube videos that cost it next to nothing |
| Regulators Eye a Maneuver Meant to Cut Health-Care Costs Tue, 01 May 2012 12:53:53 EDT Federal agencies are seeking information on a practice that some fear could undermine health reform |
| Mapping the Summer Camp Business Tue, 01 May 2012 12:33:04 EDT The promise of healthy margins (and fresh air) hold obvious appeal. Just know that buying an existing camp or establishing a new one is pricey and time-consuming |
| Women's Suits: The Perfect Fit Is Mostly in the Bust Tue, 01 May 2012 12:19:34 EDT Fashion-startup Quincy sizes women by bra size and height |
| Breaking Into the Energy Drink Business Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:33:26 EDT First, determine how to raise the $100,000 you'll likely need to launch your product. Then evaluate whether to hire a consultant or go it alone |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.