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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

socalTECH

I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. Our competitors don't offer screening, but there's a great demand for on-demand childcare from a reliable source, so people are seeking us out. Plus, we have face to face interaction with our sitters, in addition to background screening.

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The Future of Human-Robot Interaction

Xconomy

Those were some of the topics of a question-and-answer panel held at Xconomy’s Robo Madness West 2016 conference last month. The presence of the body makes us project a personality and to think of a robot as something of a peer – even more so than apps on a screen or voices from a smartphone.

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5 Attributes Of People Who Will Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s tempting to believe that friends, family or eager newcomers can learn quickly with your coaching and training, but entrepreneurs often don’t realize that coaching new employees will double the leader’s workload at the worst possible time and will leave a critical position not fully filled for many months.