The idea of getting into a partnership with a venture capital firm could be very exciting for a young entrepreneur as it advances their dream and is an important step towards expanding their business and develop a financial stronghold. However, it is not prudent to rush into a partnership keeping only a devoted eye on the cash flow that would follow.

The Richard Rodgers Theatre, on West 46th Street in Manhattan, has 1,321 seats. But you can’t sit in any of them—not unless you wait a really long time, or pay an extortionate amount of money. That’s because the theater is home to Hamilton, the hottest Broadway musical in modern memory. Despite eight shows per week—which amounts to more than 10,000 seats—demand is wildly stripping supply, with performances selling out as fast as the tickets go on sale. Those who carped that Broadway was dying, that craven movie adaptations had robbed the stage of its character, are eating their words. By injecting artful new energy into the story of the founding fathers, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has rewritten the script, launching a global brand that is animating students, musicians, marketers, and politicos across the spectrum.

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Shoppers have grown accustomed to the fact that prices generally only head in one direction—up—especially during the summer, when businesses know that people are more willing to open up their wallets. But for a variety of reasons, this summer consumers should catch a break on prices for groceries, travel, and more. Here are 10 purchases that will be cheaper during the summer of 2016.

Milk prices have dipped sharply, not only in America but around the globe. In Wisconsin, for instance, wholesale milk prices have reached lows not seen in at least six years.

“While states weren’t looking, our cities became better governed, better managed places,” said Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore. MAY 20, 2016 WASHINGTON — City governments not only must invest in infrastructure to attract families and economic development but also keep pace with their own growth as residents move farther out in search of cheaper housing.

It gets a little hard to decide where to begin when talking about the problems in Indian education system. From lack of promoting curricular (it’s time we get rid of the word ‘extra’); to focusing on just getting marks, whichever way you choose; the belief that one examination will determine your life; and decrease in number of teachers, our system could use all the help it gets right now.

Since launching the Series D blog, I’ve been covering the topic of crowdfunding with what I think is a healthy dose of cautious optimism. Nobody can accuse me of not wanting crowd-based equity funding to work in a big way. Heck, in 2013 I was first to publish a book on the subject with Wiley/Bloomberg Press, “Crowdfunding: A Guide to Raising Capital on the Internet” and, I was first to produce not one, but two, trade shows in 2012 under the brand “The Crowdfunding Conference.”

Silicon Valley may seem like the capital for tech startups and angel investing. But for Mark Walsh, who has made a career of piloting and funding tech startups, nothing quite matches the opportunities he’s seeing now at his offices a few blocks away from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Walsh has had a knack for getting in on the ground floor and building technology and media businesses, starting at Home Box Office in the early days of pay-TV

Image: Mark Walsh describes how angel funding, together with SBA Small Business Innovation Research funds can help startups attract venture and private equity capital and eventually go public. (FedScoop/Wyatt Kash)

Phil Libin, General Catalyst managing director and former Evernote chief executive officer, discusses the venture capital landscape with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)

Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels was among the speakers Thursday at the fifth annual U.S. News & World Report STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference in Baltimore.

The three-day conference brought together leaders from academia, business, and government to contribute key insights into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—education. The summit focused on solutions and best practices to ensure that the nation's future workforce has the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in a global economy.

Image: Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels speaks at the fifth annual 'U.S. News & World Report' STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference in Baltimore. -  http://hub.jhu.edu/

Big companies have always supported startups to do the nimble and risky innovating they could not, even building their own investment arms to directly fund them. But sometimes those startups are founded by ex-employees of big companies that break out of corporate limitations. Following rumors last month, Google officially confirmed that it will launch its own in-house incubator, likely as a way of retaining entrepreneurs and keeping marketable ideas in-house.

Have you ever dreamt of being mentored by one of the world’s preeminent authorities on growth investing? How awesome would it be to have as mentor a man who predicted the rise of Google and Facebook, and has been hailed as one of the best stock pickers. Well, that dream could become a reality if you get accepted into the newly launched BC-GSV Accelerator 2016, a joint initiative by Brand Capital – Bennett & Coleman and Co Ltd.’s (BCCL) strategic investment arm, and GSVlabs – one the Silicon Valley’s most renowned accelerator programmes – led by none other than Michael Moe.

One of the best ways to learn about angel investing is to listen to legendary investors speak about their experiences.  Kay Koplovitz is one of those business and investor leaders.   She comes to angel investing with an amazing entrepreneurial background, having founded USA Network and the Syfy Channel, among other businesses.

Kay radiates the entrepreneurial qualities that angels admire, like seeing innovative market opportunities, getting great people into your network, and strong sales and negotiation skills.

Leaders in every organization, small or big, play an important role to help create a culture of continuous improvement. It is about the difference a leader can make. It is about an experience, the individual as a leader, can create beyond just a basic job role.

Creating a culture of continuous improvement is also about building a strong and meaningful relationship with our people. It is also about being available to our people when our people need us and not when we need them.

On December 9th, 1968, a research project funded by the US Department of Defense launched a revolution. The focus was not a Cold War adversary or even a resource rich banana republic, but rather to “augment human intellect” and the man driving it was not a general, but a mild-mannered engineer named Douglas Engelbart.

His presentation that day would be so consequential that it is now called The Mother of All Demos. Two of those in attendance, Bob Taylor and Alan Kay would go on to develop Engelbart’s ideas into the Alto, the first truly personal computer. Later, Steve Jobs would take many elements of the Alto to create the Macintosh.

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In today’s economy, innovation and entrepreneurship are necessary elements for companies to stay competitive.

In fact, a survey by PWC reports that 80 percent of CEOs believe innovation drives efficiencies and leads to competitive advantage.

It’s equally important for locations to consider the importance of innovation. According to the Global Innovation Index by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the top performing countries in innovation (Switzerland, UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United States) are also all high-income economies. That’s because innovation-based industries like life sciences and information technology bring high-paying, high-quality jobs with them.

Revolution CEO Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, discusses his new book “The Third Wave” on “With All Due Respect.”

Startup entrepreneurs look eagerly towards the venture capital community, seeing the myth of a big pot of money ready to be given away to worthy ventures. Advisors, business school professors, and a lot of people who ought to know better, see VC funding as a given for far too many ventures, when in reality, there are a lot of great ideas that never get a single dollar in funding.

It’s true that venture capitalists are still raising big money, having taken in about $13 billion in the first quarter of 2016 alone. But they are a lot less eager to send that money out into the world than ever before, and VCs are more focused on setting aside funds to keep the companies already in their portfolios moving forward. They need more reserves on hand for follow-on funding for their existing companies which haven’t yet turned a profit.

LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY One of Wichita’s widely recognized challenges in this century is to diversify its business base beyond the aircraft industry. The best way to do that may lie in adapting some of the technologies used in that industry and others to new industries.

Could one of those new sectors be health care innovation? That’s the question that multiple presenters – entrepreneurs, university and health care innovators – will attempt to answer at a summit to be held June 1 at the Kansas Leadership Center, funded by the Kansas Health Foundation.

Law360, New York (May 20, 2016, 11:33 AM ET) -- The patent wars that rage in the tech industry are full of high stakes and high drama: Corporations engage in messy, drawn-out fights and small companies find themselves unwittingly exploited by patent trolls.

The U.S. patent system isn’t perfect, and the current era in which “software is eating the world” has paved the way for legal chaos to ensue. According to the Boston University School of Law, over six times as many patent lawsuits are filed today as in 1980, and patent assertion entities are now...

Decades of research have linked specific personality traits to a longer life expectancy. Some of them — from friendliness to emotional stability — may be written into our genes.

And while one study found that we're not particularly good at identifying these traits in ourselves, it suggested that our close friends are often spot-on.