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Smart speakers and portable speakers get a bad rap in the audiophile world, and the Sonos Roam is both smart and portable. But as we showed with Google’sNest Audio, there’s no reason wireless speakers can’t bring serious sound quality. The Sonos Roam, like theSonos Movebefore it, is a pretty rad little Bluetooth speaker –and we’ve got the data to show why. First things first, my colleague Callum Booth already wrote anexcellent reviewof the Roam and made an awesome video about it....

The startup gender pay gap no one is paying attention to — equity Less of an option? Equity-based awards arecommonly used in technology firmsand startups and can make up a substantial part of employees’ compensation. In fact, according to the2014 General Social Survey, which was administered to a national random sample of working adults, 20% of all workers in the private sector own stock and stock options in their companies....

Startups that scale too fast tend to fail – this is the problem that a new app released today aims to help solve. The Startup Genome Reportis a project that wants to turn entrepreneurship into a science, using information submitted from thousands of tech startups to generate meaningful data that can help these companies make the right choices for success. The first report from the project was launched in May this year, and we gave itin-depth coverageat the time....

Entrepreneurship is often thought of as an art, a skill you hone over time – but is there a science to it too? That’s whatThe Startup Genome Report, a new in-depth study, set out to discover. Based on information submitted by over 650 Internet startups, the report sets out clear stages of a startup’s development and identifies distinct types of companies. The project aims to make this data available widely in order to increase the success rate of startups and accelerate pace of innovation around the world....

This article was written by Marc Amblard, Founder & Managing Director, Orsay Consulting onThe Urban Mobility Daily, the content site of the Urban Mobility Company, a Paris-based company which is moving the business of mobility forward through physical and virtual events and services. Join their community of 10K+ global mobility professionals by signing up for theUrban Mobility Weekly newsletter. Read the original articlehereand follow them onLinkedinandTwitter. Autonomous Vehicles (AV) hit the bottom of Gartner Hype Cycle’s trough of disillusionment in 2019-2020....