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Venture Capital Is Not The Funding Reality Of Most Startups—Here’s What Is

In recent years, there has been a glamorization in startup culture and owning a company backed by investors. A “garage to riches” story is inherently more interesting than a founder talking ...

Digital health funding hits another high mark for 2020 - MedCity News

Despite the devastating economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital health companies continued to close funding rounds in the first half of 2020. After startups started off the year strong, ...

Novavax Gets $1.6 Billion for Coronavirus Vaccine From Operation Warp Speed - The New York Times

The federal government will pay the vaccine maker Novavax $1.6 billion to expedite the development of 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the beginning of next year, the company said on ...

Why digital transformation in the creative sector is no longer a ‘nice to have’ Prolific North

As we slowly emerge from lockdown, there is no ‘business as usual’ for the creative sector. In time we’ll go back to in-person client meetings and drinks after work, but for the short and ...

Has Venture Capital Strayed From Its Roots? | INSEAD Knowledge

“...I want money to do things that have never been done before,” proclaimed Georges Doriot, almost 75 years ago. His was an era where venture capital (VC) had not yet been defined as an ...

The 11 nations of the United States and their cultures - Business Insider

The Fourth of July celebrates American independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War. During that time, the US was divided into 13 distinct colonies, which later grew ...

The high-paying jobs that are expected to grow over the next decade - Business Insider

The year is already halfway done, and the novel coronavirus pandemic has had a major effect on employment in nearly every industry. However, the future of work is still looking pretty bright for ...

12 ways to cope with coronavirus anxiety, according to psychologists - Business Insider

With rising case loads, physical isolation from loved ones, and, for many, a loss of routine and purpose, Americans have been enduring a mental-health crisis alongside the medical one for ...

6 Tips For Entrepreneurs To Lock In On The Right Road - Startup Professionals Musings

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have ...

GSA launches $50B STARS III solicitation for small IT businesses

The General Services Administration is requesting proposals from small businesses under its $50 billion STARS III governmentwide IT contract. STARS III is open to small, disadvantaged prime ...

Schools face tough road to fall opening | TheHill

Just weeks before fall classes are scheduled to begin, school districts across the country are racing to implement new measures meant to protect teachers, students and parents from the ...

How to Prepare Yourself for a Return to the Office

In the coming weeks, as quarantine restrictions loosen, companies around the world will begin bringing people back to the workplace. While some may be eager to finally get out of their house, a ...

Biohealth Innovation - Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News Senior News Editor, Guests on BioTalk

Alex Philippidis joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk to discuss the BioHealth Capital Region from a National viewpoint, other Hubs, and how the industry has adapted in the age of COVID-19. Alex specializes ...

Biopharma Companies Continue to Expand, Add Jobs Despite Ongoing Pandemic | BioSpace

Amidst the pandemic, the biopharma industry continues to surge ahead. Jobs look plentiful. Check out these companies that have made recent job announcement expansions. AGC Biologics: At the ...

StartUp Health’s 2020 Midyear Funding Report Shows a Robust, Diversified Health Innovation Market

The first quarter of 2020 came out swinging. With $4.9B raised, it was the most-funded quarter on record for health innovation. But then the world changed. On January 11, China reported its first ...

The Life Sciences Report: Summer 2020 | Wilson Sonsini

The latest issue of The Life Sciences Report features an interview with Matthew J. Meyer, the firm's chief client corporate development officer, who has broad management experience in the life ...

Gig Workers Are Here to Stay. It’s Time to Give Them Benefits.

Over 48 million Americans have applied for Unemployment Insurance (UI) in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. And though ridehail drivers are considered “essential” workers, Uber’s business ...

MBA Jobs In Venture Capital | 5 Things You NEED To Know

Look behind the glitz and glamour of the world’s biggest venture capital firms, and you’ll find some of the sharpest minds in business today. Venture capital companies offer generous salaries, ...

Know Your Edge As A VC, Part One: Informational Edge

The relationship between venture capitalists and founders is well discussed and understood. But another side is also critical in venture capital: the VC’s relationship with limited partners, or ...

Has Venture Capital Strayed From Its Roots? | INSEAD Knowledge

“...I want money to do things that have never been done before,” proclaimed Georges Doriot, almost 75 years ago. His was an era where venture capital (VC) had not yet been defined as an asset ...

10 Tips On Selling Yourself As Well As Your Startup - Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most ...

What happens next for DACA -- and for college-aged students who want to apply for the first time?

Advocates for immigrant college students cheered the Supreme Court’s recent 5-to-4 decision blocking the Trump administration from immediately ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ...

COVID-19 and jobs: Monitoring the US impact on people and places | McKinsey

The spread of coronavirus is leaving a wide swath of economic damage in its wake. Our initial analysis, conducted at the beginning of April, examined the impact at the state, national, and ...

Children's National, NCC-PDI hold medical device competition for COVID-19 innovations - Today's Medical Developments

In response to medical data highlighting the serious impact of COVID-19 on children’s health, Children's National is partnering with the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device ...

COVID-19 is an opportunity to challenge problematic VC culture | LSE Business Review

In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Sequoia Capital, one of the largest and most influential venture capital (VC) firms in the world, issued a grim letter of warning. They warned their ...

What university entrepreneurship can bring to the post-COVID world | World Economic Forum

Rightly lauded for its contributions to the fight against COVID-19, university-supported, science-based entrepreneurship must also be part of the vanguard of the global response to the pandemic. ...

Survey: In the US, people say their use of masks may endure | McKinsey

Americans are largely optimistic about COVID-19’s progression, according to a new survey, and their responses suggest that the use of face masks will remain commonplace in the months ahead. As ...

Videos | Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2020 | Business Chief North America

The social enterprise at work: Paradox as a path forward. In just a few short years, the concept of the social enterprise—an organization whose mission combines revenue growth and profit-making ...

5 Rewards Of Independence That Excite Entrepreneurs - Startup Professionals Musings

For all entrepreneurs, starting a business is the route to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” no matter how risky. It’s the American dream that has been the goal of people in this ...

Why California covid-19 cases are soaring, despite its aggressive efforts to combat the pandemic | MIT Technology Review

It’s troubling, though not surprising, to see covid-19 cases spiking across the American South and Southwest, where public officials delayed lockdowns, rushed to reopen businesses, or refused to ...

A brief history of the US Navy’s dolphins | MIT Technology Review

A smattering of blocky white buildings perch at the cut where San Diego Bay meets the Pacific Ocean: Naval Base Point Loma. The complex houses not only hulking warships but also dozens of dolphins, ...

GGV’s Jeff Richards: ‘There is a level of resiliency in Silicon Valley that we did not have 10 years ago’ | TechCrunch

Earlier this week, GGV Capital’s Jeff Richards and Hans Tung joined TechCrunch for an Extra Crunch Live session. During our hour-long chat, we touched on startup profitability, the global venture ...

New Reality Is Ripe With Opportunities For Exponential Growth Are you Ready -Nitin Rakesh - BW Businessworld

Six weeks into the lockdown and it seems like the new normal is beginning to be accepted as the new reality. Even as we globally breached the 3 million mark in positive Covid-19 cases, there are ...

Four Ways to Innovate Right Now | InnovationManagement

By: Dr. Evans Baiya While the pandemic has been difficult for all us economically, as business owners, we never run out of opportunities. No matter the business climate, there is always a chance to ...

Will corporate venture capital salvage flagging economy?

'Chaebol will become even larger' vs. 'growth momentum needed' By Lee Kyung-min Corporate venture capital (CVC) will be a double-edged sword that could both galvanize the flagging economy and ...

It’s a tough time for a fledgling entrepreneur – The Famuan

The year 2020 has had a rough start and I don’t think it’s going to get any better. People are still out and about trying to make ends meet while attempting to follow social distancing ...

Reflections on Why More Women Don’t Get to the C-Suite: A View from China

The Harvard Business Review recently published its 2019 Top CEOs list. Of the 100 global CEOs listed, only four were women, and HBR China’s list wasn’t much better — it listed a total of five ...

Triumph of the Oligarchs | Newgeography.com

The Coronavirus has trammeled the prospects of most Americans, particularly low-income workers. But for one small group, the pandemic has proved something like manna from heaven. Already ascendant ...

Volcker Rule Amended to Permit Venture & Credit Funds

On June 25, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed), ...

If elected, will revoke temporary suspension of H1-B visa: Joe Biden | Business Standard News

Democratic presidential candidate and former US vice president Joe Biden has said that he will lift the temporary suspension on H-1B visas, the most sought-after by Indian IT professionals, if he ...