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Detroit: Entrepreneurs are reviving a once-bankrupt city

Entrepreneurship is in Detroit's DNA. It's what turned it into one of America's most iconic cities, known the world over as the heart of both the nation's automobile industry and the birthplace of ...

6 Global Trends Reveal How Women Are Redefining Entrepreneurship

Tiny specks form a massive ocean. The adage couldn’t be better represented than the scenario in the small and medium business sector today. In 2016, nearly 98 percent of all importers in the U.S. ...

2018 Leading Metro Locations: Pacific and Mountain Metros Dominate the List - Area Development

The 2018 Leading Metro Locations reflect the nation’s overall economic growth as the country enjoys the second-longest economic expansion on record, with many small and mid-size metros exhibiting ...

Press Release | Milken Institute Releases Index of Best-Performing » Milken Institute

SANTA MONICA, January 10, 2018 – Provo-Orem, UT, with its robust high-tech sector and broad-based job and wage growth, is the Best-Performing City in the United States, according to the Milken ...

This French startup hopes to become the Uber of water transportation

SeaBubbles is a French startup that hopes to become the Uber of the waterways. They call their all-electric hydrofoil water taxi 'The Bubble' and they are planning on launching their service in 50 ...

Seven equity crowdfunding myths dispelled (Sponsored) | EU-Startups

Many early-stage businesses are now choosing equity crowdfunding to get to the next level. In 2017 alone, 165 deals across the UK and Europe were funded on Seedrs making it the UK’s most active ...

5 ways to make tough decisions faster (and not regret them later)

Decisions–or, more accurately, indecision–can cause a drag on your time for days, weeks, months, or even years. But choosing well doesn’t always have to mean choosing slowly. As an experienced ...

Ten Female Founded Venture Capital Funds You Should Have In Your Network

Networks bring ideas and innovation to life – including connecting into the necessary investment dollars. When networks are narrow, so by definition, are the possible winning ideas. With venture ...

7 Compensation Strategies for Cash-Strapped Startups

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. We can’t always match market salaries, but we need exceptional (read: expensive) talent in order ...

4 Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team

Technology is disrupting every industry and area of life, and work is no exception. One of the main career implications of the digital revolution is a shift in demand for human expertise. For ...

6 Demand Generation Metrics To Quantify Marketing ROI - Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and ...

Four things recruiters look for to size up candidates’ potential

I’ve recruited countless graduates for roles in many organizations over the past decade, and I’m constantly asked what I look for. My answer is always the same: potential. This is especially ...

We’ve had to prepare for jobs that don’t exist yet before

Think about explaining to someone 25 years ago what a social media manager, ride share service employee, or drone operator does for a living. Technology combined with population demands, resource ...

The Hidden Mystery Behind One of the Lesser Known Universities for Startup Entrepreneurs - Small Business Trends

For entrepreneurs, the idea of crafting a unicorn company from the ground up is usually the dream. After all, that means the business has a valuation of a minimum of one billion dollars, and ...

Is Hummus Healthy? | Time

Hummus, the chickpea-based dip that’s a staple in many Middle Eastern cuisines, is on the rise in the U.S. Multiple factors are fueling its growing popularity, according to the USDA: Hummus is ...

The ripple effect of record venture capital availability (datagraphic) | PitchBook

Propelled by a strong fundraising environment and increased participation from nontraditional investors and corporate VCs, capital availability hit record levels in the first half of 2018. The ...

Boom times: Venture capital funding hits record highs as AI leads the way - SiliconANGLE

Venture capital flowing into technology companies continued at record highs in the second quarter as two reports said the U.S. tech market is at highs it hasn’t seen since the dot-com bubble of ...

Tour de France: An American-born $13,000 hyper-aero machine - Business Insider

LES HERBIERS, France — This year's Tour de France has seen an extraordinary number of new-bike launches, including from Specialized, Trek, and BMC, but perhaps the most discussed has been the ...

Montgomery County Maryland (First County to have SBIR Matching Program)

Montgomery County companies may soon apply online for the County’s new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Matching Grant Program. ...

Silicon Valley, from 'heart’s delight' to toxic wasteland

There was a time when California’s Santa Clara Valley, bucolic home to orchards and vineyards, was known as “the valley of heart’s delight.” The same area was later dubbed “Silicon ...

Only 14% of VCs in Canada are women, new report finds | IT Business

That women are seriously under-represented in Canada’s technology industry is hardly news, and a new report suggests one reason might be that they’re seriously under-represented at the companies ...

The US may have just pulled even with China in the race to build supercomputing’s next big thing - MIT Technology Review

There was much celebrating in America last month when the US Department of Energy unveiled Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer. Now the race is on to achieve the next significant milestone ...

PepsiCo looks to generate buzz with new Hive incubator | Food Dive

With little to risk and a lot to gain, PepsiCo is the latest CPG company to get into the incubator game. Already, many of its peers in the food space, including Kraft Heinz, Kellogg, Campbell ...

9 Innovation Practices For Long-Term Business Health - Startup Professionals Musings

A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. ...

Singapore now the most innovative country outside of Europe | The Edge Markets

SINGAPORE (July 11): Singapore has moved up two notches to be the fifth most innovative country amongst 126 nations in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 report. Retaining its top spot as the ...

Born Or Made? Personal Characteristics That Influence Entrepreneurship

Regulation is one of the more important influences on entrepreneurship around the world, and modern scholars have explored what the see as key conceptual and empirical relationships between ...

The Quirky Secrets of the World’s Greatest Innovators

In Quirky, NYU Stern professor Melissa Schilling embraces what you might call the “great person” view of innovation. Many recent studies of innovation have focused on the importance of ...

Elements of a successful government transformation | McKinsey & Company

In our conversations with public-sector leaders across the world, we hear real urgency—and a fair amount of anxiety—about the need to transform government services. At the national, state, and ...

Can you find the hidden letter in this brainteaser? - Business Insider

This recently re-surfaced brainteaser has been making the rounds on the internet again. Apparently, reported Sharesplosion, if you can find the "C' that's hidden somewhere among the rows and rows of ...

Jeff Bezos Net Worth 2018: Amazon CEO Is World's Richest Man | Money

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has reached an incredible new milestone. As of Tuesday, according to a Forbes estimate, the Amazon founder and CEO has a net worth of $143.1 billion—making him at least $50 ...

2Q 2018 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor | PitchBook

Maybe more than ever before, the first half of 2018 embodied the high level of capital availability throughout the US venture industry. $57.5 billion was invested across 4,000 deals, pacing the year ...

How To Be A Successful Entrepreneur -- No Matter Your Personality Type

Entrepreneurship is more about the journey than the destination. It takes a certain kind of spirit to succeed in the startup world, and while many different types of people make good founders, the ...

How Thai soccer team were rescued out of Tham Luang cave: Diagram - Business Insider

All 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a Thai cave complex after a two-week ordeal that gripped the world. Because the team was trapped in an underground tunnel, 2 1/2 miles from ...

Here's how many people Earth can hold before it runs out of resources - Business Insider

Humans are the most populous large mammal on Earth today, and probably in all of geological history. This World Population Day, humans number in the vicinity of 7.5 to 7.6 billion individuals. Can ...

Why Is It So Hard To Innovate in Brazil? The Legal Issues

Innovation investment is crucial for Brazilian organizations wanting to gain a competitive advantage - or at least survive in the current climate of socio-economic instability. But the country still ...

Is Working Remotely Bad for Your Health? | Time

Imagine rolling out of bed in the morning and, rather than racing to get out the door and into morning traffic, you could go for a run or make yourself breakfast. It’s the kind of daydream every ...

Gates Foundation’s $100M-a-year nonprofit biotech takes flight | FierceBiotech

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has held a coming-out party for its nonprofit biotech startup. Equipped with plans to build a 120-person team and spend $100 million a year, the Gates Medical ...

American Migration: Exploring Where People Move Across America | Newgeography.com

Just a few years ago, experts indicated Americans (especially young Americans) were more interested in a different lifestyle than previous generations. Instead of owning a house in the suburbs, the ...

This is the first 3D printed home to actually host a family

A family of five in Nantes, France, is the first to move into a 3D printed home. The 3D printing method used to create this house was developed by the University of Nantes. According to BBC, this ...

Restore the patent system and cut the red tape strangling federal labs

The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a request for information seeking ideas for improving the public’s return on investment from federally supported R&D. Here’s my ...