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Meet Austin Russell, the World's Youngest New Billionaire Who Dropped Out of College To Pursue His Dream

The name Austin Russell may not be familiar to you, but it is better to remember it. At just 25 years old , the Californian is the world's youngest new billionaire thanks to his company Luminar ...

The Enactment of Bayh-Dole, An Inside Perspective - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law

We caught the tide– but just barely. That the Bayh-Dole Act passed was amazing. That it passed in a lame duck session of Congress with its principal author defeated, the US Senate changing hands, ...

Bill Gates predicts when the pandemic will end

Despite the increase in cases and deaths from COVID-19 , the vaccines that have been developed in recent months have yielded good results during tests. Thanks to this, its distribution and ...

USM COVID Research & Innovation Task Force Launches Student PSA Public Health Challenge - USM

Baltimore, Md. (Dec. 11, 2020) – The University System of Maryland (USM) COVID Research and Innovation Task Force is bringing together people, expertise, and resources from its 12 universities to ...

The Next Normal – The future of the high-rise: Creating people-centric spaces | The Next Normal | McKinsey & Company

As the world becomes more urban, more people will live and work in high-rises. What will that mean for builders, real-estate companies, and tenants? In this edition, The Next Normal explores the ...

The Best Children’s Books About Entrepreneurship For Kids

A lot of parents (myself included) are always looking for ways to expand our children’s mind - especially when it comes to entrepreneurship. If you are eager to teach your kids about being a ...

These are the Top Venture Capital Firms of 2020

Venture capital is a type of private equity that primarily invests in start-up and small companies exhibiting long-term growth potential. They invest both in companies that have already shown ...

How to find your next VC | TechCrunch

Welcome to the depths of December, a time in which the news cycle should be slowing down. Instead it’s accelerating, giving me the firm worry that our holiday cycle is going to be mostly work this ...

5 Secrets That Make Jeff Bezos The Leader Of The Pack - Startup Professionals Musings

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of ...

Overcoming pandemic fatigue: How to reenergize organizations for the long run

Pandemic fatigue: it’s plaguing organizations and employees right now. In 2020, we’ve endured a global pandemic, a massive economic crisis, and widespread social unrest. Layer on top of that ...

2020 likely to be among three warmest years in modern recorded history – Air Quality Matters

Climate change continued its relentless march in 2020, which is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record. 2011-2020 will be the warmest decade on record, with the warmest six years ...

Elon Musk on the problem with corporate America: ‘Too many MBAs’

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the biggest problem with corporate America today is that too many business school graduates are running the show. "I think that there might be too many MBAs ...

Connected DMV President & CEO Stu Solomon joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk - Biohealth Innovation

Stu Solomon, President & CEO, Connected DMV joins BioTalk to discuss formation of the Strategic Renewal Task Force, their Covid-19 Pandemic Pivot, the Global Pandemic Prevention and Bioterrorism ...

Task Force Report | ConnnectedDMV

COVID-19 STRATEGIC RENEWAL TASK FORCE ...

RIP Tony Hsieh...2021: The Year to Get Funded | LinkedIn

RIP Tony Hsieh. This article is dedicated to you and the inspiration you provided to me and so many entrepreneurs, helping us to put our passion and focus into the vision and values that led us to ...

New Global Index Ranks Perceptions of Stress

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more people around the world were under stress than was true over a decade ago. More than one in three adults (35%) worldwide said they experienced stress during ...

Prof Sarah Gilbert

Sarah Gilbert is Professor of Vaccinology at Jenner Institute, University of Oxford. She has been leading the development of COVID-19 vaccine since the beginning of the ...

Sovereign wealth funds: The global $30-trillion prize - The Financial Express

Size does matter, and global sovereign wealth funds (SWF) are one measure of any country’s economic muscle. Norway, which has the world’s largest SWF at about $1.4-1.8 trillion, owns, on an ...

NFL : Entrepreneurship after 40? Five benefits of doing it

More and more people are deciding the entrepreneurial path, but above all the businesses led by people over 40 have increased. Some of the factors for them to be inclined to start their project is ...

The board’s role in embedding corporate purpose: Five actions directors can take today | McKinsey

Multiple forces have increased attention on stake holder capitalism, and most boards have not sufficiently grappled with the significant implications for their organizations. Last year, Business ...

Mayors: How COVID Changed the Future of Their Cities

Two out of three U.S. mayors say that in the long run, cities will be able provide “better opportunities to more people,” but this optimism is blunted by severe budget cuts and a belief that ...

Finding Happiness......

A professor gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professors then mixed all the balloons. The students were given 5 minutes ...

CMS Advances Seven Finalists in Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge | CMS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced seven finalists who will advance to the final round of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge. This ...

Five Winning Behaviors Of Successful Entrepreneurs

To do that you need to look inside yourself to understand your behaviors and reflexes. You need to start somewhere in order to build the set of skills that will lead you to success and that ...

The Most Dangerous Beaches On Earth

When you’re on vacation near the coast, or if you’re lucky enough to live close to the sea, there’s nothing better than finding a nice spot to relax at a local cove. However, there are ...

Why we still haven't been able to find aliens yet - Business Insider

Narrator: Odds are, somewhere among the estimated 100 billion planets in our galaxy, intelligent alien life has taken hold. So the question is, why haven't we found even a hint of it? While ...

What would happen if all the ice on Earth melted overnight - Business Insider

Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of all freshwater ice on Earth is sitting on top of Greenland and Antarctica, and each year, a little more of it melts into the ocean. Normally, it would take hundreds ...

How to Set Boundaries as an Entrepreneur

For entrepreneurs, time and energy are among the most precious assets. There’s a finite amount of both. How an entrepreneur decides to leverage those assets will impact not only his or her ...

Building a great digital business | McKinsey

In recent months, many companies have rushed to build digital businesses to overcome pandemic-induced disruptions and address shifts in customer behavior. In this episode of the Inside the Strategy ...

How to get the most of Covid-19 vaccines — and not squander our chance

It appears science may have found the Covid-19 pandemic’s off-ramp. Two vaccines developed with stunning speed — and showing remarkable initial efficacy — are poised to be approved for ...

Philanthropy and venture capital in conversation with each other - Generocity Philly

Venture capital and philanthropy are both methods of moving large amounts of money around the economy, but they usually do so with very different goals and strategies. VC aims to beat the stock ...

Technology governance and 4IR technologies | Deloitte Global | Government & Public Services

The World Economic Forum and Deloitte examine key applications of 4IR technologies for thriving in a postpandemic world and identify governance challenges that these technologies can help to ...

Asia becoming vibrant global innovation hub: report - Xinhua | English.news.cn

BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Asia, particularly East Asia, is becoming one of the world's most vibrant innovation hubs, with China standing out as a major global innovation promoter, according to a ...

Meet The 'Brainiacs' Behind The Cranium Incubator's First Cohort - Hypepotamus

The Incubator, started by veteran Atlanta investor and former Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) president Joe Beverly, looks to support underrepresented founders by providing a structured curriculum, ...

Doudna Talks Nobel Success and Women in Science

Jennifer Doudna PhD, the UC Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Emmanuelle Charpentier PhD, was the recent guest of honor for the final episode in the “Women in ...

Leadership problems working from home

For decades, we’ve commonly believed the further two people were apart physically and organizationally, the lower their estimation of one another was likely to be. Our latest research at ...

America Isn't Falling Apart. It's Still the Land of Opportunity | Newgeography.com

More than 840,000 green card holders became citizens last year, the most in a decade. Over 10 percent of the American electorate was born elsewhere, the highest share in a half-century. All of ...

BioHealth Crystal Ball on Vimeo

Join Rich Bendis, Pete Briskman and Ann Rutledge as they Discuss Securitization, Covid-19 and Political Analysis related to the BioHealth ...

Rethinking resilience: Ten priorities for governments | McKinsey

Due to the pandemic, governments are under increased pressure to act quickly and at scale. By reimagining how they work, they can create resilient societies and public services for the next normal. ...

The once obscure, derided financial product that just might transform deep tech venture capital – pv magazine USA

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock over the past year or perhaps docked at the International Space Station, it’s been impossible to miss the Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) craze ...