A popular myth that most of you probably believe is that startups are only for the younger generations. In fact, I see more and more evidence that new entrepreneurs are coming from the older age groups (age 45-64), and success rates move up with age. Is it possible that age and experience are more of an advantage in this business than young passion and fearlessness?

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Father's Day, this year has put us into a profoundly thoughtful mode. It’s because we have got some extra hours to spend with our fathers while working from home. A father plays an instrumental role in a child's overall development and the course of their life. Every father plays a key role in making us a good human being and shaping our life journey.

There is still no definitive formula for success, but they are well-known elements that can make someone more likely to achieve their goals, take a look at how playing sports can prepare you for being an entrepreneur.

Playing or competing in youth sports or later in life, will teach people essential lessons that can be translated into many facets of life, and are especially important in business.

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The tiny home movement has captured the hearts of Americans in recent years.

Tiny homes are defined as abodes that are under 400 square feet. The movement has picked up steam, with many opting for the tiny lifestyle to save money or to be able to travel freely. Sustainable energy use and waste systems are also key drivers, though the tiny home life isn't always as glamorous as it looks.

Image: An Icon 3D-printed tiny home in Austin, Texas, in 2019. Katie Canales/Business Insider

Thanks to Covid-19, all-remote companies – that select group of (mainly tech) firms that function without a physical location of any kind – have gone from eccentrics to exemplars in the eyes of the larger business community. Companies contemplating a possible open-ended future of obligatory remote working for much of their staff would do well to learn from these elite early adopters.

Major tech companies including Amazon, Apple, the Google parent Alphabet, Uber, and Twitter decried President Donald Trump's freeze on a range of immigration work visas Monday, calling it "unbelievably bad policy" that would undermine America's economic recovery and its competitiveness.

Trump issued a proclamation Monday suspending the issuance of a variety of visas that allow foreigners to work in the US for a limited amount of time. The administration said the suspension, which affects H-1B, H-2B, H-4, J-1, and L-1 visas, was necessary to protect American workers at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has pushed unemployment to its highest level in decades.

A Boston-area clean tech startup incubator has picked Houston for its first expansion outside its hometown, in a move that shows Houston is serious about an energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

Image: Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Greentown Labs' CEO Emily Reichert announced plans for a Houston location during a June 16 press conference. (Greentown Labs)

In chaotic times it can be reassuring to see so many people working toward a better world. That’s true for medical professionals fighting a pandemic and for ordinary citizens fighting for social justice. And it’s true for those among us striving to employ technology to address those problems and many others.

BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2020-21 Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship, was part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989). The Fellowship was established to support HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs in their new ventures around promising life science technologies while developing their leadership talents and providing mentorship during their entrepreneurial journey. To date, Fellows have created 23 companies in categories including therapeutics, information technology, diagnostics, consumer health, and devices, and have collectively raised more than $370M in funding.

The consequences of misjudging the performance of private market funds are high. Inaccurate fund benchmarks can lead limited partners to miss investment opportunities or make poor allocation decisions—and they can make fundraising significantly more difficult for general partners.  

However, most third-party venture capital benchmarks and private equity benchmarks lack the transparency needed to accurately decipher how well individual funds and investment strategies have performed. They don’t expose the underlying fund data they consist of, the investments those funds have made or even the performance of the component funds—meaning critical details that can be used to better evaluate performance are lost.

June 18, 2020During a crisis, an employee’s most trusted source of information is often their employer. For this reason, a leader’s words and actions can have a major impact on the well-being of those they manage; they can help keep people safe, help them adjust and cope emotionally and help them put their experience into context and draw meaning from it.

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. But fortunately, team building is a skill that can be learned and practiced, for those willing to put in some effort.

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Some 30% of in-person patient-doctor visits will shift to the digital world of medicine following the coronavirus pandemic, according to Paul Rothman, Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine.  

The shift to telehealth in recent months has been both vital and rapid as person-to-person contact has been reduced to a minimum.

At Maryland-based Johns Hopkins, one of the United States’ most prominent hospitals, the number of telehealth “visits” increased from a couple of dozen before the pandemic to approximately 5,500 every day.

Image: Paul Rothman, Dean of the Medical Faculty at The Johns Hopkins University and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine (photo credit: Courtesy)

Politicians and police are continuing to crack down on intellectual property theft in what is costing the U.S. as much as $600 billion a year. But what if you could teach scientists to protect themselves as an added layer of security?

The University of Dayton School of Law and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) have developed the first-of-it's-kind online training course for researchers so they can learn how to prevent the loss of intellectual property and data rights.

Image: The stealing of copyright protection intellectual property costs the U.S. billions every year. PIXABAY

In the midst of a pandemic, I don’t think we ever expected to see one of the most energized social justice movements in the past few decades. Emboldened by the movement, many are engaging in more frank discussions about the role race plays when it comes to funding opportunities for early-stage tech companies. As a result, venture capitalists, a group historically dominated by white men, has shown increased interest in finding and funding Black founders.

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Technology and innovation are powerful engines of prosperity, inclusion and resilience that will drive radical benefits across society and support the UK’s economic recovery - from large-scale carbon reduction to developing a vaccine for COVID-19.

As the UK begins to build back better and reshape its role internationally, a dynamic innovation economy is essential – to foster prosperity, create high quality jobs, attract investment and compete globally.

The crisis has highlighted the best of British innovation and business dynamism, but for the positive impacts to be sustainable and engrained there are challenges to address. Many firms are struggling with lower cash reserves to invest in innovation and there is a growing concern about the impact of future regulation on the UK’s digital dynamism.

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $35B public company, and now growing revenue.

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Recently, Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan urged India’s wealthy to look at startups as a serious investment opportunity and not just a trend. “We need to flow the money of high net worth individuals (HNIs) into startups,” he had said.

Notably, the new generation of wealthy and high net-worth individuals (HNIs) have been focussing on wealth management and investments through family offices. Globally, as per a Crunchbase research of 2018, 193 family offices made over 1700 venture deals.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has unveiled the Qualcomm Small Business Accelerator Program, designed to help small businesses convert to a mobile-first work environment necessary to thrive in today's business climate. The comprehensive program will provide small businesses with products powered by Qualcomm Technologies solutions, along with collaboration tools and technical and integration support, so they can continue to maintain operations throughout the current global pandemic and beyond.

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Over the past several months, providers and their patients have had to ramp up telehealth in a hurry. Although reviews are early, usage is on the rise and both clearly acknowledge the potential for telehealth in everyday practice. But providers also say they struggle to “see” as many patients a day through telehealth as they do in-person. And patients, well…they’re still not clear on how the whole thing works. Do they download an app somewhere? Is the tele-visit covered by insurance? (And here’s something both doctors and patients should be asking: What if the Internet connection drops during the visit?)