Since I got started in 2010, I’ve been a part of fifteen unsuccessful business projects. You could say, therefore, that my business career has mostly featured failure. But without the lessons I learned along the way, I never would have been able to get to the point of running one of the hotteststartupsin e-transportation, which is even making a splash around the world by selling record-breaking electric bikes. So here are the three key lessons to success… which I’ve learned through a whole lot of trial and error....

3 lessons for every newbie founder competing with industry veterans It’s tough to succeed as an underdog, but not impossible. 1. Do your due diligence No matter what you want to be successful in, you need to do your due diligence to get a full comprehensive picture of how you can disrupt and contribute to the industry and/or problem you are trying to tackle.If you’re going after an industry run by a few key players with decades of experience, this is even more imperative....

In a previousarticle, we discussed how a whopping78% of enterprises fail on their digital transformationinitiatives and that banks experience specific issues like legacy processes, tightly coupled technical systems, failure of innovation labs, lack of proper incentives for being risk-savvy, and underestimation of the scope of change. There’s so much information out there about creating the right strategies and processes to tackle digital transformation, but what’s often overlooked is the mindset shift that needs to occur to actually make real change happen....

3 more lakes have been found on Mars — anyone home? Three lakes on Mars found just beneath the surface of that world, along with confirmation of a fourth, provides tantalizing hints at Martian life. A salt lake… great Mars was once a water-rich world, but liquid water cannot exist on the Martian surface today due to the thin Martian atmosphere. In order for water to remain liquid under current conditions, these subsurface lakes would likely need to beextremely salty....

As protests continue to spread across the Middle East and North Africa, the Moroccan government seems to be making quick work of quelling the efforts of activists both online and in the streets. According to an extensive report compiled byGlobal Voices, three arrests have been made this week alone. Mohamed Douas, a blogger and online activist, was arrested on Monday, under the charge of drug trafficking. Douas founded a news site called Fnideq Online, but according to Douas’ friends, the arrest is most likely due to a Facebook group he started calledWikileaks Fnideq....