More than a million people visit the quirky, high-tech Minatur Wunderland — the world's largest, tiniest-scale model railway exhibit — in Hamburg, Germany each year, but now you can do it from the comfort of your own computer.

Google Maps has added Street View to the intricate exhibit, which features 8 miles of railway tracks and follow 900 trains each day. While model trains may not typically be your thing, stay with us. You're about to geek out.

When he was a 24-year-old medical student living in London, Faii Ong was assigned to care for a 103-year-old patient who suffered from Parkinson’s, the progressive neurological condition that affects a person’s ease of movement. After watching her struggle to eat a bowl of soup, Ong asked another nurse what more could be done to help the woman. “There’s nothing,” he was grimly told.

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With equity crowdfunding poised to take off in 2016 with the recent additions of Regulation A+ and the final rules of Title III, Reg CF, I have compiled a list of predictions for the coming year. The internet has facilitated profound efficiencies in many different industries.  Now the industry of finance is poised to benefit from advances in technology.

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From the embryonic stage of a startup software company until it starts to generate revenue (and often even beyond!), all companies and their founders have at least one thing in common: a need to finance development costs.

The right option for your company will depend on a number of considerations with different legal obligations and liabilities for a company's board of directors and management.

No one used to think twice about heading into work. However, the reality of our world today is that anywhere can be dangerous, including the place where we spend most of our days. Recently, a gunman ran rampant at the Navy Shipyards. There were gunshots near the White House. These acts are horrible demonstrations of violence, and they are happening too frequently. Along with worrying about the mentally ill, your employees could also be harmed as a result of natural disasters or other similar situations.

Enter the world of a lifestyle entrepreneur. The lifestyle entrepreneur has built their business around their ideal lifestyle. Lifestyles may vary, but it is for that person to choose which niche is right for them.

Are you ready to be a lifestyle entrepreneur? The benefits of lifestyle entrepreneurship are attractive. That is what often gets people interested. However, many people are not prepared to embark on the journey of the lifestyle entrepreneur.

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At first it seems almost as simple as Chutes and Ladders: You roll dice and move checkers. There’s little brainpower involved, you think; most of it appears to be about luck and little else. You analyze the roll and try to build defense and attack at the same time. You can see that there’s some strategy, but it doesn’t seem awfully challenging, and a great deal—way too much, it usually feels like—depends on the roll. And bigger is better: A double four is almost always better than a one and a two.

Good help is hard to find. At least that’s what one-third of hiring managers say, and the talent shortage isn’t just in technical fields. Good sales reps, managers, executives, and financial professionals are among the most difficult to find, according to a 2015 survey by Manpower Group.

Sought-after people have a good mix of hard and soft skills, and those skills are always changing because today’s business climate is in constant flux. If you’re looking to get hired, hire someone new, or grow your company, here are eight skills that will help you do it in 2016:

The workplace is constantly changing, but 2016 is poised to be a particularly transformative year.

New government regulations, changing definitions of basic words like "employee," "manager" and "workplace," an increased focus on workplace diversity, and new technologies will radically change many aspects of day-to-day business operations over the next 12 months.

While some of these changes have been in progress for years, others will come rapidly. In the coming months, organizations will be challenged with keeping ahead of these changes, or suffer the consequences of falling behind.

It wasn't expected to be a major State of the Union address—a final speech from a president in his last term, recounting achievements and expressing hope for the future. And then Obama made some news: "Let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all." And to lead the administration's effort, the president picked VP Joe Biden, who recently lost his son Beau to cancer, and who has said that finding a cure is one of his major life goals.

Harvard Business School has launched a "Startup Studio" in New York City, in partnership with the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The studio is located at 1460.

Venture capital firms raised less money and closed fewer U.S. funds last year, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association, a trade association. With less capital to invest, the decline from 2014 could signal an even tighter funding environment for technology startups this year. Venture capital decreased to $28.2 billion last year, from $31.1 billion in 2014, according to the report from the NVCA and Thomson Reuters. The 235 venture capital funds that closed in 2015 represent a 13 percent decline from 2014.

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It’s the standard business school storyline: A manager decides to get an executive MBA degree and starts classes with a bit of a chip on her shoulder.

"You may have reached that point in your career where you’re middle management, you’ve done many things right, you’ve had some failures that you’ve learned from, (and) you could be molded into thinking you’ve figured some things out," says Michael Desiderio, executive director of the Executive MBA Council, a nonprofit association that works with more than 200 universities and colleges that offer executive MBA programs.

The 2016 awards cycle has just opened for the Innovations in American Government Awards administered by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The purpose of this prestigious awards program is to recognize creative and innovative government programs that have significant impact and are replicable nationally.

After waiting years to raise his first outside dollar for his startup, Michael Hennessy was looking to take on more in October when the headlines started pouring in that tech companies going public weren’t faring well on Wall Street. “Valuations are plummeting and reality is setting back in,” Hennessy remembers thinking.

January 11, 2016 — AUTM today released its highly regarded annual U.S. Licensing Activity Survey report for FY2014. Along with real world and human impact stories about technology transfer’s ability to improve lives and boost economies, the report analyzes licensing activities at U.S. universities, hospitals and research institutions, with data such as the following:

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Work with anyone long enough and you’re bound to encounter a difference of opinion. Most of the time, these disagreements are resolved amicably. But if you’re like most people, every now and then you find yourself immersed in a conversation so emotionally charged it seems to have nothing to do with the issues you’re supposedly discussing.

These three steps transform the vague idea of innovation into something tangible. Innovation is a skill that service members and veterans can develop with training. It’s not genius, luck, or unique to Silicon Valley. It’s something at which we can each get better, whether we’re adapting to the 21st century security environment or the global economy.

In a previous post, I described the foundation of an “innovation training plan” for service members and veterans. The foundation has three parts: a “Growth Mindset,” esteem for failure as a means to learning, and rapid prototyping.

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The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce is one of the most influential business groups in the state, but it has largely missed out on one of the fastest-growing segments of the local economy: the startup and venture capital communities.

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Philadelphia-based accelerator Dreamit Health has announced that in its next class, it will offer the startups the option to keep their equity if they do not accept cash from the program. The accelerator, which offers the program in partnership with Indepence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine, said they added this option in order to get later stage companies and serial entrepreneurs to participate.

The company is still accepting applications for its next program which launches in March 2016.

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