When you're a kid, being a superhero is awesome. But in your business? Not so much. Sure, you can go through spikes of energy where everything feels fresh and new, sending you into do-it-all superhero mode. But those energy spikes usually don't last long, and soon enough, you'll find you can't rely on superhuman efforts forever.

As the novel coronavirus saturates the news, forcing colleges and sports leagues to shut down and infiltrating Hollywood, many Americans are understandably wondering when it will arrive at their doorstep. While the number of known cases in the U.S. appears to be comparatively low as of now, the figures are almost certain to spike very soon, as both testing and exposure increase. While COVID-19 has unquestionably spread further than officially known, it is poised to round the curve and spread widely across the U.S. by the end of April.

Of any job that you could choose, entrepreneurship requires the most self-reflection, and therefore, the most growth.

When you’re an employee, you can generally trust that the company will continue running with or without your presence. In that is a sense of relief, one that many people find preferable to the alternative. It’s more ideal to work in a group wherein you are not solely responsible for the success of your organization and the livelihood of everyone associated.

Ask any book publisher and they'll tell you that success stories sell. But those success stories often paint a warped picture of entrepreneurs as being superhumans with X-ray-like vision into the future. I can tell you not only from having been an entrepreneur for the past 30 years but also in working with hundreds of successful entrepreneurs that much of the mythology we build around entrepreneurship is a false narrative that doesn't help those who are just getting started. This false story is what I call the backstory of entrepreneurship. 

This week, thousands of in-office workers will experience their first foray into the world of at-home work, as large and small businesses try to manage the threat of COVID-19 by asking their employees to work remotely.

And while a LinkedIn study from October 2019 found that 82% of workers wished they could work from home at least part of the time: Take it from me, it’s not as easy as it looks.

Job crafting — changing your job to make it more engaging and meaningful — can take many forms. We’ve been studying job crafting for 20 years and our research among hospital cleaners, employees in a manufacturing firm, a women’s advocacy nonprofit, and tech workers identified three main forms these changes can take.

Cheryl Man is usually the only one wearing a face mask on her New York City subway train. She notices this, but other people on the train notice, too. Usually she just gets odd stares from other commuters. But on Tuesday morning, when she was walking to school, a group of teens jeered at her and coughed in her direction.

“I felt very humiliated and misunderstood,” says Man, a 20-year-old student and research assistant who is ethnically Chinese.

When employees of Massachusetts biotech company Biogen were informed in late February that several among them had been diagnosed with COVID-19 after a company-wide meeting, they immediately went to hospitals for testing, but were turned away. Because of the scarce number of tests available in the U.S., doctors, upon the advice of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), were following strict protocols for who could be tested: people who had symptoms and had traveled to a country where cases were endemic, or had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive. Most of the Biogen employees didn’t have any of the symptoms of fever, cough or difficult breathing that are the hallmarks of COVID-19, but understandably wanted to know if they had been exposed.

The U.S. government recently enacted what some experts have called “the most economically consequential policy of the Trump era.” That’s probably fair. After all, it’s set to burden the immigration system, undermine technological innovation and erect barriers for millions of people who want to work, study and raise their families in America.

Image: In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, photo, Manasi Gopala, a software developer in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, works from home in Cary, N.C. Gopala left her birthplace of Bangalore, India, in 2002, even as many Americans lamented the outsourcing of tech jobs to that city. She became a citizen in 2013 and bought a suburban home a few years ago. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Currently there are two main reasons someone would be tested for the coronavirus: having symptoms or exposure to an infected person.

The main symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, are fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. These look a lot like the flu and the common cold, so it takes a physician to determine if testing for the virus is necessary.

While scientists are scrambling to understand the novel coronavirus and contain the chaos it has unleashed, the outbreak is creating chaos within science itself.

As confirmed COVID-19 cases increase in the U.S. and around the globe, gatherings of all kinds are being canceled or postponed. They include tech developer conferences, book fairs, rock concerts, automobile expositions, a United Nations–sponsored climate week—and numerous scientific meetings, which are normally fertile ground for new ideas and collaborations.

Women are making incredible strides in the field of entrepreneurship. 

We’re seeing more women-owned businesses, more female investors, and—what’s perhaps even more important—more brands waving their “women-owned and operated” flag. It’s become a badge of honor, rather than something to hide. 

An increasing number of colleges are moving all of their classes online in an attempt to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The impact that suspending in-person classes will have on the rapidly unfolding public-health crisis is...

U.S. prescription drugs can broadly be divided into two categories: 1) small molecule drugs and 2) biologics. Small molecule drugs tend to be chemically synthesized and often have molecular weights under 1,000 Daltons. Contrastingly, biologic drugs are larger and more complex molecules, for example proteins, viruses, and living cells such as CAR-T cells.

I was shocked to read an old Gallup study that indicates only 13 percent of employees worldwide are actively engaged at work, and more recent data shows only a small change in the right direction. In my own experience as a startup advisor and mentor, I find that entrepreneurs who can’t attract and maintain a highly motivated team rarely even get off the ground.

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University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, Burlington, committed up to $7 million to Ecosystem Integrity Fund IV for its $551 million endowment pool.

The university's investment subcommittee approved the commitment to the early-stage venture capital fund at its Feb. 11 meeting, recently released minutes show.

GEN publishes its updated annual A-List highlighting the top 15 best-selling drugs of 2019. Eleven of last year’s 15 top-selling drugs registered year-over-year sales gains, with seven of the 11 racking up double-digit increases . . .

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL / ACCESSWIRE / March 10, 2020 / Partner Social Media LLC, a leader in local marketing for small to medium sized businesses announces an expansion - releasing a suite of programs to help entrepreneurs start and grow a local marketing agency of their own.

"Today, many people want to work for themselves." says CEO of the company Neil Anderson. We believe one of the best ways to truly accomplish the "Laptop Lifestyle" is to create a business that serves and adds a tremendous amount of value to the community and the economy, all while getting compensated very well for doing so on a reoccurring business model.

As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spreads across the world — with more than 113,000 cases and 3,900 deaths globally — health and government officials are scrambling to get a handle on what the Word Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared a pandemic.

But one method health experts and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials are suggesting to limit a person’s risk of exposure — or of spreading the virus, which the CDC says is transmitted through droplets from coughs and sneezes between people who are up to six feet apart from one another — is “social distancing.”

In 1959, the Batavia Industrial Center opened in a small city in New York state. Housed in a decommissioned factory, it offered small companies space, equipment, and guidance for growth — a novel business model at the time. One of the earliest tenants there was a hatchery, whose chick-filled coops inspired the Center’s owner to come up with a newfangled term for his newfangled enterprise—business incubator.