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Beware of Early Venture Capital Term Sheets: No Due Diligence Means No Guarantee

If you’re an entrepreneur like me, you dream of building the next Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple or (insert name of high-growth, game-changing company here). You have read all the stories ...

VCs await regulatory clarity on Opportunity Zones, the latest tactic to draw capital to the Heartland | VentureBeat

It’s an oft-cited statistic that 75 percent of venture capital in the U.S. goes to just three states: New York, California, and Massachusetts — and it has for years. If it’s going to take ...

7 US cities that will pay you thousands of dollars to live there

It pays to live in small cities. Literally. As young people flee to large metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, some smaller towns are facing labor shortages and dwindling ...

Are Some People Born to Be Entrepreneurs?

Whether you call yourself an entrepreneur, a freelancer, an independent professional or a gig worker, your behavior or experience as a child may have foreshadowed your career direction. That’s ...

3 Learnings from the Teacher-turned-entrepreneur Jack Ma

Almost all of us have this belief that the knowledge about technology, management and smartness are the more important ingredients of a successful entrepreneurship. But, Alibaba Group’s executive ...

Innovation Isn’t a Top Priority, According to a Survey of 5,000+ Board Members

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support ...

Stop talking about innovation and act | The Japan Times

With the end of the long summer holidays, business conferences, symposiums and seminars are popping up on the schedule one after another. It appears that in this season businesspeople and other ...

Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Attributes Of People With An Entrepreneur Mindset

As an angel investor and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always disappointed to see founders who seem stressed out most of the time, and more annoyed than energized by the abundance of ...

Making Change Contagious

Much of the conventional wisdom about the diffusion of new ideas, behaviors, and innovations comes from network science, where it tracks back to two sources: Mark Granovetter’s influential theory ...

Business Success Myths and the Truths Behind Them — Entrepreneur Pathways, Inc.

It’s the 21st century and information is just right at the tip of our fingers – thanks to the wide, wide, internet world. However, in spite of all the availability of information and the easy ...

Transforming local economic development in Massachusetts’ older industrial cities

Brockton is a mid-sized Massachusetts city located 25 miles south of Boston, and is a former hub for leading shoe manufacturers. Over the past few decades, the city’s historic neighborhoods ...

Israel's tech scene is growing so fast the country is called the 'Startup Nation,' but a local venture capitalist says it's in danger of losing its entrepreneurial edge - San Antonio Express-News

Israel produces an impressive number of highly successful tech companies for a country with just 9 million people, from social navigation app Waze, which sold to Google in 2013 for $1.15 billion, to ...

Senate Appropriators Approve $2 Billion Increase to National Institutes of Health | ASCO

On June 28, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $2 billion funding increase to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Department of Labor, Health and ...

Speeches by FDA Officials > Blueprint for Breakthroughs - Charting the Course for Precision Medicine

Good morning and thank you for having me here today. One of the most critical points on a patient’s journey is the moment of diagnosis. The moment when you find out what’s wrong. What the ...

Georgia Research Alliance names first new CEO in 18 years - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Russell Allen will succeed Michael Cassidy, who has been with GRA for 25 years and served as its president and CEO since 2000. Image: Russell Allen, left, today was named the new president and CEO ...

Why Getting A 9-To-5 Job Might Be The Secret To Being A Great Entrepreneur

If I were to tell you that going to work for someone else would make you a better entrepreneur, I’m pretty sure you’d think I’m crazy. The two career routes are, after all, polar opposites. Or ...

Largest U.S. Biotech Hubs: Boston and the San Francisco Bay

The biotechnology industry in the Boston region, especially Cambridge, is a powerhouse even when compared with the innovation and development seen in the San Francisco Bay Area. These hubs function ...

Sloan Kettering’s Cozy Deal With Start-Up Ignites a New Uproar - The New York Times

An artificial intelligence start-up founded by three insiders at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center debuted with great fanfare in February, with $25 million in venture capital and the promise ...

SparkLabs launches accelerator in D.C. for cybersecurity and blockchain startups | VentureBeat

SparkLabs Group operates a network of accelerators and venture capital funds, and today it is adding to them with the creation of a new global accelerator program focused on cybersecurity and ...

All Apple employees now get standing desks

"We have given all of our employees, 100%, standing desks. If you can stand for a while, then sit, and so on and so forth, it's much better for your lifestyle," Cook said in a recent interview with ...

Is the Next Recession Around the Corner? - [email protected]

The panic following the collapse of Lehman Brothers a decade ago spread quickly and far, even to markets that were less vulnerable to developments in the U.S., such as Australia. That underscored ...

12 Crazy Things You Should Know About WeWork, the Coworking Company Valued at $20 Billion

If you live or work in a big city, it's likely that you have stepped inside one of WeWork's 178 locations, because either that's where your office is or you know someone who works out of one. If ...

Governor Murphy Encourages International Research Universities to Create Global Footprint in New Jersey - Insider NJ

TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today announced that he has reached out to more than 20 of the world’s leading international research universities to encourage them to create a global footprint ...

How to get more women in venture capital

A few months before the Harvey Weinstein story broke last fall, Silicon Valley had its own reckoning, when numerous VCs were accused of sexual harassment. Cowboy Ventures cofounder Aileen Lee, one ...

10 Habits of Highly Successful Small Business Owners - SMALL BIZ AHEAD

The unfortunate reality is that a lot of businesses fail. What differentiates those that fail from those that become raging successes? Certain traits and habits help business owners beat the odds ...

Entrepreneurs: It’s time to put corporate VCs back on your short list | TechCrunch

The startup media is awash with stories of corporate venture capital prioritizing their own interests over those of their portfolio. While acknowledging that some of these stories may have a basis ...

The Five Digital Flavors of Innovation | Innovation Management

Innovation must become your business routine and corporate culture to renew creative energy. Digital innovation has a broader spectrum and the hybrid nature. It comes in the variety of flavors and ...

Startup Professionals Musings: 7 Tips For Building The Right People Relationships

In big business, as well as startups, I have found that your effectiveness can be highly correlated to your ability to build and maintain people relationships, often more so than hard work, or how ...

New insight into aging - ScienceBlog.com

They say you can’t teach old dogs new tricks, but new research shows you can teach an old rat new sounds, even if the lesson doesn’t stick very long. Researchers at the Montreal Neurological ...

University leaders and the conglomerate challenge | McKinsey

Business leaders in the United States and across the world spend countless hours in the boardrooms of major research universities. For many institutions and trustees, those meetings have become more ...

Jean Case's five rules for creating real social change

After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in September 2017, chef José Andrés activated a network of chefs through two groups he’d founded–World Central Kitchen and Chefs for Puerto Rico–to ...

How to Launch a Business Without Quitting Your Day Job | Inc.com

An old friend of mine called me earlier today to discuss his new business idea. I spent a couple of hours helping him flesh it out and create an action plan. However, like most would-be ...

These Are the Four Big Personality Types, According to Science | Time

Personality tests are beloved by high school guidance counselors and self-help book authors — but less so by many scientists. There’s controversy among them over whether clear-cut personality ...

10 Of The Best US MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship • BusinessBecause

While the number of startups founded by MBAs from elite business schools was down in 2017, there is a growing trend that suggests entrepreneurial skills are becoming an integral part of the ...

Does Eating Together Improve Negotiations? | INSEAD Knowledge

Sitting down to a meal to talk business, like drinking while negotiating, is common practice around the world. There is probably not a single executive or public official who has never negotiated ...

Study claims age affects perception of classic optical illusion - Business Insider

"My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" is one of the most well-known optical illusions in the world. It hinges on facial perception: You can either see a young woman turning away or the profile of an older ...

Cities with the Lowest (and Highest) Startup Costs - Headway Capital | Blog

The costs of running a business can really add up, but where you run your business can make a big difference too. SmartAsset did a study of 80 cities to determine which had the highest and lowest ...

AMERICA’S BEST CITIES FOR GLOBAL TRADE | Global Trade Magazine

Another year, another list of the Top U.S. Cities for Global Trade. If there’s one thing that strikes us about this list over the past couple of years is that the reach of the global economy has ...

What You Can Do When The Venture Capitalists Say No

Will the VCs say NO? VCs say no about 99 times more often than they say yes since VCs fund only about one of 100 business plans they get. It’s also important to note that VCs don’t read a ...

America's High-Tech STEM Crisis - by Arthur Herman

America is in a race for high-tech supremacy with China. The question is, whether we will have enough future engineers and scientists to secure our lead in that race; or whether, for the first time, ...