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7 Benefits of Promoting Your Dream Before Building It - Startup Professionals Musings

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common ...

Inside Alibaba – Jack Ma’s Digital Innovation Factory – Innovation Excellence

Artificial intelligence. Augmented reality. Facial recognition. Connected “internet” vehicles. Global virtual marketplaces. App-based digital payment systems. Pharmaceutical e-commerce. Humanoid ...

What Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves When an Economic Crisis Hits

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. Judging by the economy’s overall performance, there ...

New program for female angel investors launched

New program for female angel investors launched LISTEN | PRINT BY TIM SANDLE MAY 16, 2018 IN BUSINESS A new venture has been formed as an accelerator program for women corporate and technology ...

Raising your next round? Six qualities that define top healthcare VCs - MedCity News

Founders can become myopic during the long, stressful process of fundraising. Many focus solely on the amount of money they’re going to raise, their valuation, and the brand name of the investors ...

Ben Franklin Approved 2M in 10 Early Stage Companies - Ben Franklin Technology Partners

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3 Questions That Kill Innovation -- and What to Ask Instead

Questions are powerful tools -- as essential to investors and venture capitalists researching opportunities as they are to entrepreneurs seeking the best ways to innovate and thrive in their ...

Pace of exits picks up for venture development organizations in Q1 | SSTI

Venture development organizations (VDO), nonprofit organizations across the country investing in innovation startups to help grow their regional economies as well as earn a respectable return, saw ...

Yes, College Is ‘Worth It,’ One Researcher Says. It’s Just Worth More if You’re Rich. - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The question “Is college worth it?” is a favorite of op-ed writers. Its latest iteration, published in The New York Times this week, argues firmly that it’s not. In that op-ed, Ellen Ruppel ...

Why I am Silicon Valley's greatest critic -- and fan | VentureBeat

When Silicon Valley Forum informed me I was to be a recipient of its 21st visionary awards, I was in disbelief. I have long been a critic of the ways of Silicon Valley and am clearly not in the same ...

Do You Know The Difference Between a Boss and a Leader? - Small Business Trends

The saying “people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers” may have some truth behind it. A 2015 Gallup Poll of 7,272 U.S. adults found that at some point in their career, one in two had left ...

Venture capitalists fret over U.S. bill targeting Chinese investors

Venture capitalists are heading to Washington on a mission to save their lucrative relationships with Chinese investors. Proposed legislation in Congress, which would give the government greater ...

Home | City Health Dashboard

36 measures of health, the factors that shape health, and drivers of health equity to guide local solutions for 500 U.S. cities Image: ...

From Charles Darwin to Arianna Huffington, Influential Thinkers Have Long Obsessed Over Sleep - Promising Practices - Management - GovExec.com

Reaching for the sun and success all day is tiring work, and everyone must occasionally give it a rest, whether insect, animal, plant, or human. Evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin in 1880 ...

Davos On The Delta Connects Farmers, Distributors, and Buyers, to Spur Innovation in AgTech - EQ

For the founders of I-Select Fund, Craig Herron and Carter Williams and their partners, holding a conference like Davos on the Delta around the future of agriculture seemed like a no-brainer. ...

Dual-Career Couples Are Forcing Firms to Rethink Talent Management

Jennifer Petriglieri, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, asks company leaders to consider whether they really need to relocate their high-potential employees or make them ...

Why Our Brains Fall for False Expertise, and How to Stop It

At the beginning of every meeting, a question hangs in the air: Who will be heard? The answer has huge implications not only for decision making, but for the levels of diversity and inclusion ...

Venture Capital's Best Opportunities Right Now

Every successful, publicly-traded company started out in the private markets, where venture capitalists and other investors provide early-stage funding in exchange for a shot at incredible future ...

Campus Spaces: Flexibility for the Future - The Chronicle of Higher Education

At any given moment, most colleges are planning, building, renovating, or maintaining an infrastructure project. This special report examines how colleges’ buildings and grounds help them do ...

Open doors are the key to the future | The Japan Times

Many Japanese visited Los Angeles during the Golden Week holidays to watch Shohei Ohtani play for the Angels. I was one of them and was impressed with not only his performance but also how he ...

Too many aspiring entrepreneurs want to be hoodie-clad billionaires

After his father was murdered on Chicago’s South Side and his mother was sent to prison, Derrius Quarles spent more than 12 years in foster care. Thankfully, a teacher who noticed his intellectual ...

Hallmarks of Organizational Ambidexterity – Innovation Excellence

If you are a frequent reader of my posts, you may know we’ve been relentlessly highlighting the importance of organizational ambidexterity as vital requirement for modern dual ...

The Office of Technology Commercialization promotes and translates innovations at UAH

Kannan Grant’s door in the UAH Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) is always open. "We proactively promote and support a culture of learning and innovation at UAH by creating and ...

10 Big Mistakes Every New Entrepreneur Needs To Avoid

With over 50% of the working population working in a small business, according to U.S. government statistics, entrepreneurs are a vital part of the economy. They provide new millions of new jobs ...

AZBio initiative aims to cure funding gap that ails Arizona | AZ Big Media

Trying to build on Arizona’s significant investments in the life science discovery and healthcare delivery infrastructure, the state’s leaders are focused on bridging the funding gap that slows ...

The Real Reasons Failure Is Important To Innovation – Innovation Excellence

We’ve all heard the mantras around failure. “Fail fast. Fail often.” “Love your failures.” “You can’t succeed without failure.” But why? Why is failure so important to innovation and ...

How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. The first in the series is “Lemons Ripen Early,” which also has a link to other posts. The most ...

The most valuable private tech companies in the world: LIST - Business Insider

Technology companies continue to be some of the most valuable private companies in the world, according to PitchBook's most recent list of the highest valuations of VC-backed companies. Uber tops ...

A look inside Tufts, Biolabs new biotech incubator Launchpad in downtown Boston - Boston Business Journal

The Tufts Launchpad offers over 15,000 square feet of rentable lab and office space in the heart of the city. Image: Scientists work in the Launchpad space. ALONSO ...

16 High-Tech Cities You'll Want to Call Home

Location, location, location doesn't just apply to your first apartment post-graduation; it also refers to what city you move to. Yes, there are tech jobs everywhere but some cities have more of a ...

The 10 Best Senior Discounts | Money

Word is, early bird specials are going the way of VHS tapes and flip phones. But plenty of deals remain for folks who were alive during the Johnson administration. I turned to my Retire With Money ...

15 books world-famous CEOs think everyone should read in their lifetime - Business Insider

There's a reason the most successful people in our society are often the most voracious — or dogged — readers. Think about how many new ideas you're exposed to in the pages of a book, compared ...

Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World, and Finns Aren't Happy about It - Scientific American Blog Network

When the World Happiness Report announced recently that Finland is the happiest country in the world, we Finns reacted the same way as we have reacted to other top rankings in various international ...

Mount Sinai's Icahn medical school launches $10 million investment fund | Crain's New York Business

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has created a $10 million accelerator fund to speed up the commercialization of research at the school. It's starting with two investments in ...

No (Good) Idea Left Behind: Everyone In An Organization Has The Potential To Innovate

A nationwide focus on innovation has changed how we live and work. Since the National Innovation Strategy was launched in 2014, innovation in the UAE has facilitated everything from cleaner energy ...

Israel’s Life Sciences Industry Is Dominated by Small Scale Startups - CTech

Israel's life sciences industry has experienced a 81% growth over the past decade, with around 130 companies founded every year on average, according to a new report, though half of that number ...

The Internet Connection Speed of Every State in America

While the average internet speed across the country has grown exponentially in the last few years, coming in at around 18.7 megabits per second according to “Akamai’s State of the Internet: Q1 ...

Go Ahead, Skip that Networking Event

We’ve probably all been to at least one networking event, those initially promising but inevitably awkward meet-ups where most people arrive hoping to meet new contacts that can further their ...

I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. I know that you can ...

Jeff Bezos to workers everywhere: You’ll all work for Amazon soon

Heard the news? Amazon has more than 100 million Prime members now, a milestone CEO Jeff Bezos announced last month in his annual letter to shareholders. That missive includes another detail ...