PR for People

Food Pharmacy!

September 02, 2017

Now more than ever, health practitioners are concentrating on the cross-reaction between food and medicine. There are specific types of food that can interfere with current medications. The Harvard Health Letter came out with a list of how the two affect each other. Now people are paying closer attention to their diets based on certain foods that can cause a drug interaction, which can either make medications stronger or weaker, or have an entirely different effect.

Books

Canonical and Influential Author-Publishers

Anna Faktorovich

September 02, 2017

The mainstream publishing industry has popularized the stereotype that “self-published” books are inferior to “traditional” ones because the author does not receive an advance and the services provided are less professional. The reality is that the Big Four publishers attained their enormous market share by, at least initially, relying on author subsidies. When advances were paid, they were typically loans that had to be repaid if a book failed to sell a volume of books that would cover the advance.

Tech

Startups and Digital Strategy

Dean Landsman

September 02, 2017

Startups are all the rage in the tech business press. Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley write endless columns about the Next Big Thing. Entrepreneurs are celebrated, written about, and there’s both an HBO and an Amazon series about them. VCs (Venture Capitalists) look for the next Unicorn. What’s that? It’s a startup they invest in early, raise a few million up to $10 or $20, maybe even $30 million, that will then grow to Billion Dollar value. Yes, that was Billion with a B. Maybe to get there, in VC money-speak, it will take a few more rounds, an A, BC, even a D round, raising many millions, tens of millions, to get there. Usually this requires stellar success, revenues and growth.

But not always.

Comedy

Guess Who’s Special Kevin Hart’s Producing Next?

Jeffrey Gurian

September 01, 2017

Guess Who’s Special Kevin Hart’s Producing Next? Plus Street Jokes, Tony Hinchcliff in NY and More

World Views

James & the Journey of Uthando

Erasmus

August 29, 2017

James Fernie is one of those people who can say he has achieved what he set out to do. He would, however, disagree, as there are many more future plans in the making. His company Uthando (meaning love in Xhosa) has grown beyond expectations, proving that his vision for a need of such company was founded.

Politics