Posts
Blog posts of Marius Schober on random topics including opinions, thoughts, ideas, or personal day-to-day experiences.
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5 Books You Must Read To Get Started in Entrepreneurship
TOP 5 Books for you to Start into 2017 During the last year, I have been asked several times which book I may recommend for anyone interested in business, entrepreneurship, and investing. I created a list for your new year’s resolution which will give you a kick…
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The Problem with Two-Factor Authentication via SMS
Are you using the services of Gmail, PayPal, iCloud, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Skype? Are you actively using online banking? Then you have the chance to activate a security layer called two-factor authentication on top of your password to make your account more secure. Indeed most banks…
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Introduction to Bitcoin and the Blockchain
Read an updated and more detailed version of this article here. You believe that you don’t have any use for the term “cryptocurrency”? Well, you probably have. Bitcoin is currently the largest cryptocurrency when it comes to market capitalization and popularity. Now you might say: Yeah,…
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The Future Of Supermarkets
Waiting at the Check-Out? That’s all past now. Amazon just introduced Amazon Go – a concept store in Seattle where Amazon employees (and soon customers) can buy groceries and snacks in a local store without the need to pay at a checkout desk. You simply walk…
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Respect and Prosperity: Silicon Valley and Democracy
Entrepreneurs from the Silicon Valley are shaping our future. They are building bold new technologies. These technologies range from artificial intelligence, robotics, infinite computing, ubiquitous broadband networks, nano-materials, synthetic biology, to augmented- and virtual reality. These technologies will allow us to make more progress within the…
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How to cut your study exercise time into half!
We all know it from our days in school. There were days we had to study crazy facts about biology and chemistry. Every week we were forced to learn some hard French vocabulary. Our parents always told us to learn and revise all facts and vocabulary…
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PC’s are ripe for real innovation
Touch Bar & Touch Screen, that’s it? The last two days were not that spectacular as I hoped they would be. Apple and Microsoft both introduced new hardware. Microsoft did a smart move by placing its product announcement exactly one day before Apple’s one.
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Cold Email: How to Raise your Response Rate
As part of my acquisition process, I send around 50 cold emails to selected hotel managers. Of those 50 cold emails, I got roughly 2 interested responses. Well, that’s a response rate of 4% and I didn’t really like this number. So I tried out a…
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Fact Checking News
Google has just introduced its new fact-checking feature which lets you check yourself if a news story is true or not – starting in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Why DuckDuckGo is superior to Google when it comes to scientific research
goo-gle | verb If you are reading this it is very likely that you are using Google as your main search engine. You don’t know the time zone of Indonesia? Google became literally a verb which describes searching something on the internet. Google is even in the…