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Alexandria LaunchLabs - AgTech, the Premier Platform Accelerating the Growth of Early-Stage AgTech and FoodTech Companies, Announces Winner of Its Inaugural $100,000 AgTech Innovation Prize

PASADENA, Calif. and DURHAM, N.C., June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), an urban office REIT and the first, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator ...

The virtual state of corporate venture capital today | TechCrunch

When the going gets tough, it’s common for some corporate VCs to head for the hills. Today, it’s a narrative that’s emerging again amid the COVID-19 crisis. Global corporate venture deals fell ...

EU countries still struggle to approve border reopening ‘safe list’ – EURACTIV.com

EU member states are still struggling to approve a list of “safe countries” from where travellers could visit Europe in July, with the issue now being put to a vote, diplomats said on Monday (29 ...

Admissions deans release statement on what students and colleges should know

The college admissions cycle that is (slowly) finishing for students entering in the fall has been unlike anything admissions officers have seen before. With campuses empty, colleges had to recruit ...

Creating, Fast and Slow | INSEAD Knowledge

Instead of bickering about the superiority of specialists or generalists, why not recognise that creative strategies involve trade-offs? Innovation is considered to be a sport for interdisciplinary ...

How To Attract, Retain, And Lead High Achievers

High achieving employees, those who routinely blow benchmarks out of the water, can be the most productive colleagues, yet difficult to retain. While a higher salary might be their stated reason for ...

Sovereign funds pile into venture capital investments in 2020 - Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds have participated in $17 billion of venture capital deals so far this year, already more than the entirety of 2019, as their appetite for long-term ...

Coronavirus and Flu Season Could Be Devastating, CDC Director Says | TIME

Summer has just begun, but health officials are already warning Americans that the fall and winter months ahead will likely be challenging. Once flu season begins, the U.S. will have to worry about ...

The Volcker Rule, Venture Capital And Unintended Consequences

Late last week, bank regulators gave financial markets and the financial services sector a badly needed shot in the arm. Contrasting the Federal Reserve’s restriction on dividend payments by U.S. ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO: Predictive analytics, precision medicine and AI are the future of medicine

Paul Rothman, MD, CEO of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the medical faculty at Johns Hopkins University, discussed the health system's COVID-19 data platform and the potential ...

7 Ways Your Day-To-Day Routine Drives Startup Success - Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the young entrepreneurs I know are classic proof of the old adage that people tend to overestimate what they can do in a short period, and underestimate what they can do over a long period. ...

Next in Naturals QuickFire Challenge on Immune-Support - Challenge | JLABS

Families often turn to dietary supplements inspired by nature with ingredients such as Elderberry, Vitamin C, and Zinc with the aim to help safely support their immune systems. A heightened ...

How to fight the exhaustion of being a startup founder

I can’t remember a time where I wasn’t in pain or run down with a cold. Whenever I was sick, friends would respond with “Again?,” and my personal brand became synonymous with doctor visits ...

CERN to install a larger particle accelerator, at a cost of 21 billion euros

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, of which Belgium is a founding member, currently has the world’s largest particle accelerator on which it conducts research. The ...

Theranos Whistleblower Erika Cheung on Incentivizing Ethics | Stanford eCorner

In the second episode of our “Entrepreneurship and Ethics” miniseries, Stanford professor Tom Byers connects with Theranos whistleblower Erika Cheung. Together, they explore how she found the ...

Tim O’Reilly makes a persuasive case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm than good | TechCrunch

Tim O’Reilly has a financial incentive to pooh-pooh the traditional VC model, wherein investors gamble on nascent startups in hopes of seeing many times their money back. Bryce Roberts, who is ...

Why the coronavirus lockdown is making the internet stronger than ever | MIT Technology Review

Just like that, our internet connection has become an umbilical to the outside world. We now depend on it to do our jobs, to go to school, and to see other people. It is our primary source of ...

10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec - Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture ...

9 red flags that it's your time to step down as a leader - Business Insider

We all make mistakes. Even the most admired and successful leaders have made disastrous leadership mistakes. It's actually one of the best ways to learn, grow and become more effective. At the same ...

Drexel Takes Top Spot on National Rankings for Innovation | Now | Drexel University

A new report by the George W. Bush Institute and Opus Faveo Innovation Development recently named Drexel University the most innovative mid-sized research university in the country. These two ...

Johns Hopkins professor warns about traveling

BALTIMORE (WMAR) — A Johns Hopkins professor recommends rescheduling travel if you can, saying we are still in the thick of this virus. "We’re in the soup again and we won’t know how deep in ...

A global view of financial life during COVID-19 | McKinsey

The COVID-19 pandemic has left no one untouched. While effective treatment and a vaccine remain in development, some countries have succeeded in containing the spread of COVID-19, allowing a ...

World’s Largest Black-Led VC Firm Doubles Size of Latest Fund | Financial Post

(Bloomberg) — The world’s largest Black-led venture capital firm, Base10 Partners, just got bigger, raising $250 million to invest in startups and back a handful of initiatives designed to ...

Europe Hopes Summer Tourism Will Boost Economy Amid COVID-19 | Time

From the hotel terrace where he ate breakfast, Phil Pelzer could almost pretend nothing had changed. Yes, the maître d’ had aimed a temperature gun at his head before allowing him near the ...

K-State Innovation Partners raises over $4.9 million for University

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - K-State Innovation Partners raised over $2.8 million in licensing revenue and over $2.1 million in facilitated sponsored research to Kansas State University. K-State Innovation ...

Inside the Coronavirus - Scientific American

For all the mysteries that remain about the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes, scientists have generated an incredible amount of fine-grained knowledge in a surprisingly short ...

Venture Capital Is Excluding Far Too Many Black Entrepreneurs - Barron's

When I was in high school, my dad brought home a copy of Black Enterprise’s annual list of the largest black businesses. I was mesmerized. I decided immediately that I would be an entrepreneur ...

Lessons from a Working Mom on “Doing It All”

“I don’t know how you do it.” Whether it comes at the start of a videoconference or a call, this is one of the most frequent comments I hear from clients, colleagues, and even friends these ...

Innovation in a Downturn: Pivot or Perish?

Times of crisis create an explosion of opportunities for the companies that are prepared to seize them. COVID-19 is no exception: Indeed, hundreds of pandemic-related innovations have already sprung ...

1% of venture-backed startup founders are Black. Here's how one entrepreneur beat those odds | VentureBeat

Just 1% of venture-funded startup founders are Black, according the Crunchbase startup database. This means Joe Bayen, who runs a small company called Grow Credit, has beaten the odds. In the wake ...

'Never let a crisis go to waste': entrepreneurship in the age of coronavirus | LSE Business Review

“Never let a crisis go to waste!”, People may say this when facing some sort of significant challenge, and trying to turn it to their advantage. As COVID-19 has become a global crisis, it ...

Is This a Bad Time to Be an Entrepreneur?

With a barrage of doom and gloom in the media, combined with all sorts of strange information flying around on social media, you could be forgiven for feeling that it’s a terrible time to be an ...

How Silicon Valley Hijacked Word ‘Entrepreneur’ and How to Fix It - Bloomberg

Two hundred and ninety years ago, when the French-Irish economist Richard Cantillon first defined an entrepreneur as anyone who worked for unfixed wages, he noted that the one thing that linked all ...

Arizona Technology Council and ACA launch AZTechBase, providing critical data on the state's technology ecosystem | Arizona Technology Council

AZTechbase offers a wealth of information related to technology companies, people and investors The Arizona Technology Council, in partnership with the Arizona Commerce Authority, today ...