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Author Archives: Andrew Wooldridge

Andrew was raised in Colorado Springs and moved to Waco, Texas in 2005 to attend Baylor University. As an undergraduate, he pursues a double-major in Entrepreneurship and International Business. Andrew spent a semester in France, studying business at the University of Caen's Institut d'Administration des Entreprises — an immersion that deepened and clarified his fascination with other cultures and multinational living. At InsideWork, Andrew is developing MyIPO, continuing work he began as intern in the summer of 2007.

August 2008

Just Roll With It

Lessons from the Square Watermelon

Innovation leads to another innovation. An interesting lesson from an artificially shaped watermelon, and its unforeseen side effects.

Why You Should Translate Your Site

Ideally, if a company wants to connect with foreign customers it should speak and write in their language, right? I learned this lesson the hard way during a recent five-month stint in northern France: It’s really hard to build relationships with people who don’t speak your language. That experience sensitized me to the struggles of [...]

July 2008

The Gig - Fortune’s Blog for the Twentysomething Worker

Nadira Hira is the author of The Gig - a blog on Fortune’s website that discusses issues relevant to Gen Y. The Gig offers advice to young workers as well as insight into young colleagues.

June 2008

Apple in Parallel

As our colleagues Sam Nguyen and Peter Ha decompress after Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, we note an interesting coincidence in the computing world. No doubt techies already know this, but two important things happened this week. First, Apple announced Snow Leopard, the next iteration of OS X. Second, [...]

July 2007

Consumer Quality Control

Ethics Gone Bananas

Dole Organic is attaching Farm Codes to their bananas, allowing customers to track their fruit back to the place it was grown and to view the farm's organic certifications.

Tips for Succeeding in College

Changing the Odds

60% of college students don't get a successful education - wasting billions and billions of dollars annually. Richard Light conducts a survey of Harvard students to find out what advice can help students be more likely to succeed.

June 2007

Getting One of These?

We’re preparing for today's release of the iPhone…