I have lots of people
who find me more than interesting and caring.
Bushnell,
who founded more than two dozen companies, is credited with seeing something unique in Steve Jobs and giving him his first real» shot.»
Not exact matches
The researchers also
found that those individuals
who checked their emails
more frequently didn't perceive themselves as being
more productive
than those
who had email restrictions.
His
findings bode well for equity crowd funding, which may in fact allow backers
more recourse
than those
who donated via Kickstarter should an entrepreneur fail to meet expectations.
A study on waiters and tipping published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology demonstrates how even tiny gifts can make a big difference,
finding that: «Customers
who received a small piece of chocolate along with [their] check tipped
more than did customers
who received no candy.»
In a study of
more than 5,100 adults, researchers from the University of Illinois
found that those
who were the most optimistic were 76 percent
more likely to have health scores in an ideal range.
Blackburn conducted research focused on mothers caring for children with autism and other chronic conditions, and
found that moms
who were
more resilient to stress — perceiving their situation as a challenge, rather
than something hopeless or overwhelming — kept their telomeres longer.
You will never
find a CEO of a Fortune 100 company
who achieved that goal while working a flexible schedule, putting in no
more than 40 hours a week.
A 2015 study
found that women
who applied for professorships in STEM areas (excluding economics) were
more likely to be hired
than similarly qualified male candidates.
Just one head's up, though, if you're the guys being bought: Keep your bags packed, because once you're inside the place, you'll quickly
find that you'll have no
more ability to command additional resources
than the guys
who were there in the first place.
The study's authors
found that peckish participants in a card game known as the «Iowa Gambling Task» played
more shrewdly and made better decisions
than those
who had eaten.
Garland Shreves,
who founded Phoenix broker Research for Life in 2009, said he invested
more than $ 2 million in quality - control procedures and medical equipment, including $ 265,000 on an X-ray machine to scan cadavers for surgical implants.
One 2005 study
found that those preferences can play out in how often people approach each other online: women
who were 6» 3» tall received 40 % fewer messages
than women
who were a
more average 5» 5», while men
who were 6» 3» and 6» 4» got about 60 %
more messages
than men
who were 5» 7» or 5» 8».
That won't surprise anyone
who's seen the recent New York City Department of Consumer Affairs report on gender pricing in the city, which
found that toys and accessories marketed at girls cost an average of 7 %
more than similar products aimed at boys.
The study
found «that people
who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay
more for products
than those
who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give
more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.»
A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun,
who, as
founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur
who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of
more than $ 1.5 billion.
But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about
more than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur in the construction industry
who couldn't
find workboots for women and started a company to manufacture them.
«In a study of health care providers, we
found that those
who used WOOP were significantly
more engaged with their work and less stressed
than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.
A large, long - term study of male smokers
found that those
who regularly took Vitamin A were
more likely to get lung cancer
than those
who didn't.
Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be
more careful about
finding applicants
who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer
than their counterparts in bigger locales.
It
found that social - support providers — those
who ask co-workers to lunch, arrange activities in the office and help pick up some of the slack — are 10 times as likely to be engaged at work
than introverts and 40 percent
more likely to land a promotion.
The first analysis looked at 148 studies involving
more than 300,000 people and
found that people with social connections had a 50 % lower risk of dying early compared to people
who did not have strong social circles.
Buyers
who whip out the plastic to buy gifts will
find that they're paying far
more than just the purchase price.
The American Press Institute's recent Media Insight Project
found that only 2 of 10 people surveyed on Facebook could remember the source of the news they saw — and far
more trust was placed in the person
who shared a story
than who produced it.
«This
finding suggests that risk tolerance influences how people become entrepreneurs
more than it influences
who becomes an entrepreneur.»
«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x
more treating people
who are sick
than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.
TalentSmart has tested
more than a million people and
found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people
who are high in emotional intelligence (90 % of top performers, to be exact).
The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and
found that
more than 70 percent of the participants
who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those
who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.
They are
found more often among entrepreneurs and chief executives — the very people
who put incentive plans in place to optimize performance —
than in the population at large.
Machers with a vast global web, such as Langone, are much
more likely to
find a short, strong path to their prey
than the poser
who lofts a Hail Mary on the basis of a shared alma mater or long - ago internship.
One study
found that college students
who drank four to five drinks at a time
more than once a week were
more likely to overeat after drinking compared to students
who drank one to two drinks at a time (18).
Moira Burke,
who is studying 1,200 Facebook users in an ongoing experiment, has
found that personal messages are
more satisfying to receivers
than the one - click communication of likes.
She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which
found that students
who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour
more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels
than peers
who started at 7:30 a.m.
A review of 17 studies
found that adults
who drank sugar - sweetened beverages with meals consumed 7.8 %
more food
than adults
who consumed water with meals (20).
A University of Iowa study
found that workers
who were provided with a portable pedalling device under their desk were able to concentrate better at work,
more likely to report weight loss and take fewer sick days
than co-workers
who pedalled less.
A review of
more than 200 studies
found that people
who drank three or four cups of coffee per day were 19 % less likely to die from cardiovascular disease.
A 2011 study
found that people
who took a short walk outdoors returned feeling happier and
more rested
than people
who walked indoors.
Rather
than enjoying the many riches the deal had brought him, Averdieck,
who readily admits that Gü had become much
more than a job,
found himself slipping into depression.
For instance, a ProPublica analysis of Medicare's Part D prescription drug program
found that doctors
who received
more industry money were also
more likely to prescribe brand name, rather
than cheaper generic, drugs.
This study by Dr. Gail Matthews
found that «
more than 70 percent of the participants
who sent weekly updates to a friend reported successful goal achievement.»
«The [trend] we
found is that students
who go it alone run into [problems]
more than students
who approach [things] as a team,» says Jay Kayne, chair and professor of entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
As The Economist pointed out in 2006, when you look at the cream of capitalism's self - made crop, you are hard - pressed to
find anyone
who has «done
more than deliver a speech at a business school.»
By examining the link between the subjects» dispositions and how much they earned, the researchers
found that men
who were slightly
more agreeable
than the mean earned 18 % less on average — that's US$ 9,772 less
than their
more disagreeable peers.
If you
find the audience members
who are positively interacting with you, you'll be much
more confident and relaxed
than if you try to convince the naysayers.
The
findings were the same: Employees with erratic bosses were
more prone to stress, job dissatisfaction and emotional exhaustion
than workers
who received poor treatments all the time.
The case for content creation boils down to the fact that content that people
find on their own can be
more persuasive
than any ad for people
who have become jaded to traditional ads.
Entrepreneurs
who focus on their passions tend to be
more successful
than their less passionate peers, and there are plenty of ways to
find your passion and turn it into a thriving business.
The first large and comprehensive review of all the published research on e-cigs added some additional weight to that conclusion,
finding «substantial evidence» that young people
who vape are
more likely to smoke conventional cigarettes
than those
who don't.
«It took me
more time to set up a wireless printer
than it took me to set up my Formlabs printer,» says Alex Berry,
who founded a UK - based medical device company, Sutrue, that manufacturers automated surgical suturing devices.
Hired's research
found that women with zero - to - two years of experience
who took new jobs actually asked for 2 percent
more compensation
than men — and received 7 percent
more.