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Here are my recommendations on how and why initiating a startup while looking, or about to be looking, for a job is the right thing to do:

Data scientists are in high demand, but our research has found there is simply not enough PhD talent to fill the jobs. The shortage is especially severe in the U.S. where 80% of new data scientist jobs created between 2010 and 2011 have not been filled, according to our analysis.

The Pew study shows that a college education is correlated with higher median earnings for 25- to 32-year-olds than at any time since the survey began.

Meditating can ease stress, insomnia, and depression and may even help ward off disease. Now there’s evidence it can produce better business decisions.

"Even the senior guys who are in a position to make change for the women in their company don’t feel like they can do it," says Laura Sherbin, the director of research for CTI. When that’s the case, she asks, "what’s left?"

If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. Consider it a waste of time.

The key to sustained employment will be to concentrate on the people skills that machines can’t copy.

Dubbed Julia, it provides an early glimpse into what programming languages might look like in the not too distant future