In 2008, I acquired a call from Andy Rubin, the former CEO of Android. He wanted my company, The Astonishing Tribe, to create the UI for Google’s first Android phone. THEREFORE I spent five months commuting between my home in Malmö, Sweden, and Mountain View. Throughout that time my partner became pregnant with this first child. I took half a year paternity leave when she returned to work. I also took 90 days leave after our twins were born.

Netflix announced on Tuesday that it’ll let employees take unlimited maternity or paternity leave through the first year of their child’s life. Microsoft quickly followed suit with the addition of a 12-week parental leave program (four paid, eight unpaid), and this can be utilized by either parent, to the prevailing eight weeks of what they rather disturbingly call "paid maternity disability leave." To Americans, these measures must seem amazingly progressive. To Swedes, not really much.

Summer jobs certainly are a key part of growing up. For most teenagers, it’s their first taste of what it’s prefer to work – and if they are lucky, it offers them an opportunity to develop skills that stick to them throughout their careers.

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, which includes teamed up with the Citi Foundation to launch a free of charge youth summer entrepreneurship program called MakeYourJob, rounded up seven established entrepreneurs and asked them to talk about their summer job stories. Now, you want to hear yours. Reveal about your preferred or most remarkable summer job in the comments section below.

We’re safely in age Tinder 2.0. The favorite app, that allows users to make moment decisions about potential dates by swiping right or left, has ushered in not just a fleet of similar dating apps, but a second-wave crop of apps that are taking the idea beyond dating and into professional networking.

The Finnish startup Meshly, which launched an updated version of its iOS and Android app today, is merely among the many startups positioning itself as the ‘Tinder of networking.’ Using location information, the service connects users to a variety of nearby work at home opportunities posted by other Meshly members.

CAN I ask you an individual question? When you look back in the last five years of your lifetime, do you end up in the area you thought you’d be? Be honest. Perhaps you have:

• Started that great business you’d in your mind five years back?
• Finally obtained that healthy, vibrant lifestyle you imagined?
• Forgiven see your face who hurt you so a long time ago?
• Finished writing that manuscript you’d started?

If not, you will want to?

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The easy answer is, you’ve chosen never to. Your alternatives have led you exactly to what your location is today. But, don’t beat yourself up, as the best part is that another five years could be very different from the last five, in the event that you make a few changes now.

Most entrepreneurs think they want VC funds to start out a business, however the reverse is often true.

Standing beyond the Mercy Virtual facility in St. Louis on an unusually cold fall day, I was on the telephone with two founders who were pitching me on a fresh blockchain startup. That they had a few customers plus some early traction, but nothing to point product-market fit. Yet, that they had raised $3.5 million from crypto investors within an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) to grow the team and build product. Remarkably, the $3.5 million they raised was non-dilutive, meaning they didn’t need to give up equity within their business the same manner you would need to through traditional capital raising.