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20 Startups Commit to St. Louis to Level Up Our City - Entrepreneur Quarterly (EQ)

Arch Grants has awarded $1,000,000 in grant funds to 20 new startups and early-stage businesses from across the country and around the globe. The winners were announced at the 6th annual Arch Grants ...

RANKED: The 50 most underrated colleges in America - Business Insider

Whether a student is more inclined to learn about artificial intelligence or take up photography, several factors play a role in choosing the right college. Business Insider has complied a ranking ...

Cities that didn’t win HQ2 shouldn’t be counted out | TechCrunch

The more than year-long dance between cities and Amazon for its second headquarters is finally over, with New York City and Washington, DC, capturing the big prize. With one of the largest economic ...

The kilogram is being redefined as a fundamental constant, not just a chunk of metal - MIT Technology Review

Scientists from more than 60 countries agreed to change the definition of the kilogram during a conference on Friday in Versailles, France. The history: The kilogram was originally defined as being ...

Why innovation isn’t dead in Silicon Valley, according to this tech expert - The Washington Post

SAN FRANCISCO -- For years now, Silicon Valley has been searching in frustration for the next big breakthrough. Innovative businesses that launched a decade ago, such as Uber and Airbnb, are finally ...

How Blockchain Can Help Improve Venture Capital Investing? - Press Release - Digital Journal

ZUG, SWITZERLAND / ACCESSWIRE / November 17, 2018 / Even with recent reports suggesting that about 75% of all venture-backed businesses fail in making profits, venture capitalists are still quite ...

What These 5 Billionaires Would Tell Their Younger Selves

As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to know the right thing to do once we can look back. Sometimes we wish we could go back and handle issues differently, or we think we could avoid ...

D.C.’s original site competition - The Washington Post

Brian P. Darmody is associate vice president for corporate engagement at the University of Maryland. Amazon announced its HQ2 decision last Tuesday, splitting the decision between Crystal City and ...

How to Write the Perfect Email, According to Experts | Time

Crafting a good email — setting the tone, making your point and coming across professional but not out of touch — is no easy feat. Fortunately, there are ways to simplify the process, amp up ...

7 Steps To Meeting Your Goals With Your New Venture - Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving, and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-priced provider of their product. Yet other ...

Angel investing: The new way of supporting small businesses and startups - Born2Invest

Believe it or not, there are angels out there. For real. Not just the cosmic beings we often read in books and holy manuscripts, but real people who are ready to lend a hand, or a few thousand ...

2019 California Life Sciences Industry Report - California Life Sciences Association

California Life Sciences Association (CLSA), the trade association representing California’s life sciences industry, and PwC US, are proud to release the 2019 California Life Sciences Industry ...

Venture Capital Is Losing Sight Of Its Most Important Investments: Seed-Stage Entrepreneurs

Broad changes in the dynamics of the venture capital are leaving early-stage tech entrepreneurs high and dry when it comes to mentorship and true assistance. With the rise of mega-funds and a ...

Top 25 Best Undergrad Programs for Entrepreneurs in 2019

There are two tracks to entrepreneurship: You can dive in and figure it out (hopefully) as you go, or attend a college or a university dedicated to teaching the tools needed by -- and harnessing the ...

The Rise Of The Lifestyle Entrepreneur

“What kind of life do I want?” Increasingly, this is the question on people’s minds, replacing “What kind of job do I want?” I often hear this from new entrepreneurs building e-commerce ...

The Emotional Rollercoaster Ride of Entrepreneurship

Many years ago (and in a previous venture) my co-founder, Vu Tran, and I decided that we could turn our hobby of building websites into a business. We were in our teens and still in high school, and ...

How to manage your workload during the holidays

Though the holidays are a popular time for workers to cash in on their vacation days, there are plenty of good reasons not to take time off toward the end of the year. For one thing, holiday travel ...

Kentucky launches university technology commercialization initiative – Lane Report | Kentucky Business & Economic News

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Matt Bevin today announced the formation of the Commonwealth Commercialization Center (C3), a national-model partnership between Kentucky’s universities and colleges to ...

If at first you don’t succeed… – Innovation Excellence

What do Mickey Mouse, vacuum cleaners, air travel and light-bulbs have in common? More than you’d think , especially if you look to the originators of those widely different things. All of their ...

University of Michigan's entrepreneurship program No. 1 in...

ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's undergraduate entrepreneurship program captured the No. 1 spot in rankings published by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. U-M's graduate-level ...

Let Banks Invest in Venture Capital Funds Once Again - NVCA

NVCA is working to allow banks to invest in venture capital funds again. As part of this effort, we recently filed a comment letter proposing two solutions for how the various federal agencies can ...

What is best for your startup: a regular or a corporate accelerator?

In 2014, Sphero made the critical decision to take three crucial members of their team to California for a four-month commitment to a corporate accelerator with Techstars and Disney. It didn’t ...

Why we need to change the entrepreneur stereotype

“Young people are just smarter,” Mark Zuckerberg infamously said to 650 aspiring entrepreneurs at a Y Combinator Startup School event in 2007. His logic was straightforward–young people lead ...

50 Questions Angel Investors Will Ask Entrepreneurs | AllBusiness.com

Entrepreneurs need to be prepared when pitching their startup companies to angel investors by anticipating the questions they will receive. The failure to have thoughtful and reasonable answers to ...

Bats Beat Dolphins in the Battle over Who Has the Best Sonar - Scientific American

Every summer evening 1.5 million bats emerge from underneath the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas, on a quest for their favorite meals of mosquitoes and other insects. To track their tiny ...

The 50 Best Inventions of 2018 | Time.com

50 Inventions marking the world a better, smarter and even a little more fun. Image: ...

How Our Careers Affect Our Children

What working parent hasn’t felt guilty about missing soccer games and piano recitals? When there are last-minute schedule changes at work or required travel to a client site, it’s normal to ...

Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Announces Rock Venture Capital Partners - News - Harvard Business School

BOSTON—MBA students at Harvard Business School (HBS) who are interested in entrepreneurship and looking to start new ventures are able to seek guidance and access expertise from various resources ...