Last September, a Chicago resident named Joel Cervantes Macias spotted an 89-year-old man named Fendicio hawking Mexican ice pops–they’re called “paletas”–out of a street cart. The man looked too old to be working, but Macias only had so much spare cash (and so much room for dessert). So he posted a picture of Fendicio on the charitable crowdfunding site GoFundMe, asking others to pitch in for a vacation.

There seems to be a lot of confusion online about the differences between a freelancer, a business owner and an entrepreneur. I admit that when I first started my online business I was really confused too, especially because everyone seems to use the terms interchangeably.

The longer I run my own business and the more it evolves to new stages, the more I’m starting to see the differences between the three. In fact, in my own trajectory, I’d say I started as a freelancer and have since begun evolving into a business owner. Entrepreneur is next on my radar.

The University Startups Conference and Demo Day brings together a diverse audience of university Startup Officers, university startups, entrepreneurs, Fortune 1000/Global 1000 corporations, VCs, angel investors, policy leaders, and federal government agencies. The event provides a venue to form and maintain robust transaction networks among the participants with the aim to align university IP and startups with investor and corporate needs.

The Demo Day showcases the startups that are best aligned with industry needs and corporate technical needs. The conference discusses best practices for creating, supporting and funding university startups. The Congressional office visits aim to raise awareness of the pivotal role that universities play in the formation of high potential startups, the creation of high-value jobs across the country, and overall national competitiveness.

Travel website eDreams has named the best 10 airports in the world.

eDreams evaluated over 65,000 airport reviews left by its customers in 2016 to come up with a list of the 10 best and the 10 worst airports.

eDreams said it took into account the global quality of airports, their waiting areas, shopping facilities, and restaurants before rating airports out of five.

Sweden is no stranger to topping global rankings, whether it's for excellence in raising kids, environmental friendliness, or doing good for others.

The latest: Sweden was recently named the best country in the world for women by BAV Consulting and UPenn's Wharton School of Business.

If you ask Asa Regner, Sweden's minister for gender equality, she'll say the country didn't achieve such a feat by accident. It took decades of advocating on behalf of women's rights and putting systems in place in the federal government to support women in the workplace and in life.

You know the basics of a healthy diet: lots of fruit and vegetables, some nuts and seeds, full-fat dairy, and a few servings of fish and lean meat. Of course, most of us don't always abide by those rules, our food choices guided by cravings or hunger instead of proper planning. That's why we compiled a list of 100 of the most satisfying, hunger-quelling foods that are also easy to find at a grocery store (and taste great, of course). We’ve also provided our favorite ways to eat them, and recipes from our friends at Cooking Light and Food & Wine.

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It’s not too early to polish up your personal strategic plan. Recently, I delivered the keynote address to 500 credit union executives in Maui and that was my message. To Lead Ahead of the Curve” you’ve got to plan ahead of the curve — or face getting hammered by rapid, unrelenting change.

In a time of Moore’s Law Exponential Change, it’s more important than ever to plan — even when so much is uncertain. What seldom gets discussed (by all the gee whiz futurists out there), is how convulsive change — technological, political, social, demographic, environmental — can hammer people’s lives. Eliminate their jobs. Isolate us from one another.

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It seems that in today’s society, being an entrepreneur makes you some sort of rockstar. The title itself has an appeal that makes anyone and everyone with an idea suddenly want to call themselves an entrepreneur.

But being a true entrepreneur is not an easy road. Most entrepreneurs have made money -- and lost money. It's normal to have had struggles and successes.

SINGAPORE is too small a base for global-minded businesses to experiment and refine innovative ideas. At least that’s the view of tech entrepreneur Mr Tan Min-Liang and venture capitalist Mr Isaac Ho, reported the Business Times (BT) on Monday (Mar 13). If entrepreneurs intend to expand beyond Singapore, they should test-bed in larger markets from the start.

Simply put, a test-bed is a space to experiment and develop innovative products before bringing to market. Last month (Feb 7), the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE) proposed in its report that the G set aside “special test-bedding zones” for Singapore based enterprises to develop products that can be exported.

Eight years after the national housing bubble burst and devastated the Florida economy, a new crop of entrepreneurs has emerged to lead a resounding economic resurgence in the Sunshine State: millennial CEOs.

Cutting against the grain of virtually every stereotype you’ve ever heard about the millennial generation (people born between 1980 and 1998), these new business leaders are forging their own reputation while shattering the mold others made for them. 

They’re people like Omar Soliman, co-founder and CEO of College Hunks Hauling Junk, and Erin Meagher, founder and CEO of Beneficial Blends. Recently, each took time from their incredibly long workdays to share the lessons they’ve learned while building their businesses in Tampa.

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Bumping into a former Nasa engineer at a university networking event gave business postgraduate Matt Ritchie an entrepreneurial steer. He intended to return to accountancy after an MBA (master’s in business administration) at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Then along came an engineer with a radical plan – to plant 1bn trees a year using only drones.

Dr Lauren Fletcher was looking for business students with the right background to help with his aim to combat heavy deforestation.

The venture-capital fund created by Ohio to cultivate local startups is going on public assistance.

Still waiting for its young companies to morph into the next Snap Inc. or Facebook Inc., the Ohio Capital Fund, which was financed through the sale of municipal bonds, didn’t generate enough money from its investments to pay $9.8 million on Feb. 15, when the first principal payments on its debt started coming due, according to a securities filing. To avoid a default, it had to draw on $7.5 million from the state, the only time the fund has turned to that taxpayer lifeline in its 11-year history.

Jason Dettbarn, 39, stands in front of about two dozen other equally enterprising individuals and shares details about his early-stage company. In 2014, the two-time FIU alumnus founded a firm that provides a cloud-based platform to organizations in need of IT management for their Mac computers, and it’s attracting customers worldwide. With slides running behind him, he practices a short speech that he hopes to deliver soon to potential investors. A few minutes later, he clicks on a video.

Next up, Helene Wilson, 35, takes the floor to discuss her artisanal ice cream. In 2016, she walked away from a legal career after people went crazy for the small-batch treats she started crafting for herself in law school. Today she sells to a growing group of fans as well as the general public through a third-party sweets shop.

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Cape May County is welcoming the latest local startup venture in the county’s push to cash in on a growing drone industry.

That startup is Cape May County itself, which has leased 1,500 square feet in the Cape May County Airport Industrial Park as an “incubator space” for companies involved in unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones.

How do taxes in your state compare nationally? This convenient resource compares the 50 states on many different measures of taxing and spending, including individual and corporate income tax rates, business tax climates, excise taxes, tax burdens and state spending.

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I own a huge library of books on innovation. Mostly hardcover. The $27.95 variety with big indexes and forwards by people who make more money than I do.

Some of these books are actually good. Most of them bore me. (I must confess I have a secret desire, whenever I enter a bookstore, to put glue between pages 187 & 188 in all of the new releases just to see if the publishers get any complaints).

If 2016 was the year of cyber attacks, 2017 is the year of prevention. Twelve months ago, experts were predicting an increase in the innovation and sophistication of cyber attacks and a greater breakdown in security measures on a global scale. With the Internet of Things (IoT) making the world more connected than ever and companies continuing to back-burner security issues, forecasters pointed to a perfect storm. Organizations and individuals would be more vulnerable than ever. They were right.

Huge groups of humpback whales have been seen gathering in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's leaving scientists and people on the internet a little confused. 

Usually, humpbacks are pretty solitary creatures, but a study published on March 1 in the journal PLOS One details multiple "super-groups" of whales gathering in 2011, 2014 and 2015. 

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Smart people only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. In today’s world, a website is necessary but not sufficient for credibility. Dreamers and gamblers have found out that if the website isn’t validated as credible, it’s probably a scam, and everyone loses.

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Entrepreneurship seems to be on the rise. The rate of new entrepreneurs has increased by more than 15 percent in the last two years, and the proportion of new entrepreneurs driven primarily by opportunity (rather than need) reached 84 percent in 2015. But if this last election has taught us anything, it’s that the opportunity and promise of the American dream isn’t reaching everyone. Large numbers of Americans, including rural populations, those with limited education opportunities and minorities, are simply being skipped over.