Up in My Business

Technology. An efficient advancement in society, yet a scary field to navigate when it comes to security, web/software customization and intellectual protection.  I'll be the first to admit that I am not an absolute expert in technology. However, I do know enough to take a company website and email down during a c-panel data migration by pointing all the name servers to a different host and changing the DNS MX Records to a 24 hour TTL propagation during a peek period. (So, enough to be dangerous. Very dangerous.) But, that's a story for another day... and don't worry, I'm much better now.  If starting a business hasn't been hard enough in the past, revolutionary inventions like the internet have come to present us with new terrain to navigate. Whether you are an online commerce or only brick and mortar, having and protecting your online presence is crucial in the world we live in today and can deem equally as important as your physical locations.  While this may see...

The brain. Such an incredible creation and so very complex . Humans have been studying the brain for centuries to understand how people learn, love and process information. It's incredibly fascinating. We are only scratching the surface of the brain, but congruently are creating technology that resembles the brain known as artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence or AI is intelligence that is demonstrated by machines. How does AI work? First, let's look at how the brain works. Your brain has different regions the process different types of information through messengers called neurons. Neurons are the basic working unit of the brain. Neurons use electrical impulses and chemical signals to transmit information to different areas of the brain and from the brain to the rest of your body's nervous system. A more complex, entangles system of these neurons is called a neuronet. Your neuronet is your first line of defense when processing information from the outside world ...

Women in business are still fighting the good fight and making monumental progress for women everywhere. This is especially true for women in industries that are male dominated like construction, science, engineering and technology.  The beauty in these fields is that as they advance, so does the education discipline options. Symbolic Systems has become a new major that was development as the technology field evolved and there was a need for a connection between mind and machine. This study is a hybrid of computer science, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, psychology and statistics.  Marissa Mayer is exactly that. This Stanford Graduate of Symbolic Systems, took the technology industry by storm by being one of the first influential women in tech--starting her career as a developer at Google . After a short time, she identified that there were others that were more efficient in development than she. Mayer switched to User Experience Design and is the creator of the Google ...

Who am I? So glad you asked.  My name is Erica. I am a story teller and I will be your thought guide.  I am an entrepreneur. I didn't always know that, of course. It wasn't until I was standing in my storefront talking to one of my employees when she commented that I was an entrepreneur. I giggled. Then she proceeded to get very serious and squared my shoulders towards hers and said, "Erica, you know that right? You have to know that. You are an entrepreneur. We are standing in your store." And that's how I realized I was an entrepreneur.  Let me explain.  My whole life.. I was slightly... odd. Not to a point that I would send people running, but I was most definitely different. While most young girls were very interested in fashion and boys, I was hanging out with my dad--building things, wiring new gadgets and learning about convectional heat with coffee cups. By 4th grade, I was creating class projects for matching vocabulary words with definitions using insul...