Reflecting on my time in Tokyo, it seems to me that now is a time of profound choices for Japanese workers, and particularly the Generation Y of Japan.
The show is about a very small slice of Gen Y, not an embodiment of all of Gen Y.
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As of Q4 2012, TripAdvisor had around 45 million monthly unique mobile device visitors, a y-o-y increase of 190%.
As of Q4 2012, it had around 45 million monthly unique mobile device visitors, a y-o-y increase of 190%.
Or, if we return to our example of Tiger Woods, there are some x million golf players in the US and some y tens of millions worldwide.
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This was however largely offset by sales in the U.S. which showed signs of returning to strength and the emerging markets in Asia-Pacific which showed a strong y-o-y growth of 12%.
Cisco said that it expects Q4 revenues to show a y-o-y growth of about 4-7%.
For the second month in a row, Brazil industrial production showed negative y-o-y growth of -1.3%.
Despite Gore-y images of them all rapidly melting away, the inconvenient truth is that many of them are expanding.
The division posted y-o-y growth of 27% in revenue and 58% in operating profit in the second quarter of 2012.
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Using a computer algorithm, the researchers focused on identifying unique genetic markers on the Y chromosome of men in the project.
In other words, the x, y location of the touch, the force or depth of the touch, and the vector direction of the touch (2 angles).
The ongoing study is like the science-y version of the "7-Up" documentary series -- with researchers checking in on the lives of the subjects at several-year intervals.
These countries enabled an unprecedented y-o-y growth of 19.3% in emerging markets last quarter, which more than offset dwindling sales in markets such as Europe and the United States.
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While consumer demand remains robust, evidenced by strong retail sales growth so far this year (Jan: 7.8% y-o-y, Feb: 9.6% y-o-y), industrial production is running negative, at -3.9% y-o-y as of February.
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On the x-axis is the rate of unemployment, on the y the rate of inflation.
Elli Sharef, the co-founder of Y-Combinator-backed recruiting company HireArt has found herself in the thick of this employment revolution and has seen first-hand how it leads to a happier process and, more significantly, happier, better-qualified employees down the road.
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The final surprise was the extremely high scores of the Gen Y group on the dimension of Practicing Self Development.
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Members of Hacker News recently asked Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, a celebrated start-up incubator, if he would reconsider his support of Twitter.
The Baby Boomers are well past the heavy drinking stage of life, and Generation Y (made up of current 20-somethings and early 30-somethings) tends to prefer flavored cocktails over beer.
Biogen scientists crafted decoys by cloning and attaching the binding site of LFA-3 onto the Y-shaped tail of a harmless antibody.
For now, most of Generation Y seem to want modest homes, the demand of which may be indicative of their young age.
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Interestingly, Ho believes that making it easier to hire such talent is one of the reasons that accelerators such as Y Combinator of which FiveStars is a graduate have created private Start-up Commons.
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Many members of Gen-Y are burdened with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in school loans for the education we were told was an absolute prerequisite to even modest success.
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Only 20% of Gen Y women say that they want to follow in the footsteps of the female leaders in their workplaces, says new research from Bentley University.
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Because, I mean, he came in and said I could beat both of y'all.
The smartest founders are not necessarily the best ones, according to Paul Graham of Y Combinator.
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The average age of the founders of Y Combinator's top-10-performing companies based on valuation, including Dropbox Inc.
Y. maker of personal care products, decided against opening a Web store and approached dot.com retailers to take it on-line.
Enter Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, an incubator for young tech firms.
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