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Ten Semi-Finalists Announced for $1,000,000 Pitch Competition - Entrepreneur Quarterly (EQ)

Chaifetz Group has announced that ten companies have advanced to the semi-final round of the inaugural Chaifetz STLaunch investment pitch competition. Over the next week, Chaifetz Group will ...

What Every Entrepreneur Must Know About Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence continues to be increasingly used throughout the general public and businesses to enhance consumer experiences. Research from Gartner predicts AI will generate a business ...

Is 2019 the year the Mid-Atlantic region becomes the nation’s next big innovation corridor? | Opinion

In the coming months, Amazon will start hiring its way toward 50,000 jobs between newly announced dual second headquarters in New York City and Northern Virginia. Right on their heels, Google will ...

10 most innovative cities in the world

We live in an age of technology and innovation and these are key factors which determine where a country stands in terms of progress. The Innovation Cities™ Program by 2thinknow helps cities to ...

CES 2019’s Focus on the Superficial and Lack of Innovation Were Among Its Shortcomings – Adweek

Now that CES 2019 has ended, marketers are feverishly working to deliver presentations and POVs that justify the large contingents they sent to Las Vegas last week to chart the biggest innovative ...

Grandpa must be proud: Middle-schooler invents prize-winning insulin plunger

Each time her grandpa tried to inject a vial of insulin into his body, his pen’s plunger couldn’t reach every drop of the lifesaving solution. He had to throw the rest away. It was frustrating ...

How to Deal with People Who Talk Too Much - Scientific American

Listener Brian wrote in with a dilemma. Like many office workers, he works in an open cube environment. He’s friendly and easygoing, but finds he’s a magnet for coworkers taking a break from ...

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Venture) rebrands to Threshold Ventures; Bill Bryant transitions to venture partner – GeekWire

Longtime Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Venture) is rebranding to Threshold Ventures, Axios reported on Wednesday. The three people who helped launch DFJ in 1985 — ...

BioForward Represents Wisconsin’s Biohealth Industry with Diverse Board of Innovation Leaders | Business Wire

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioForward, Wisconsin’s state association representing over 200 biohealth member companies, announced three additions to this year’s Board of Directors. The board ...

Here's what participants got out of Dreamit's first cybersecurity-focused accelerator - Technical.ly Philly

The inaugural cohort in Dreamit’s SecureTech accelerator program, launched last summer in a bid to spot early companies in the budding cybersecurity market, spent 14 weeks getting coaching, ...

Pappas Capital raises $85.8 mln for venture-capital fund - PE Hub

Pappas Capital has raised $85.8 million toward a venture-capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC. A. M. Pappas Life Science Ventures V attracted capital from 29 LPs. The filing is available ...

Penguins, starfish, whales: Which animals will win and lose in a warming Antarctic? - ScienceBlog.com

Marine Antarctic animals closely associated with sea ice for food or breeding, such the humpback whale and emperor penguin, are most at risk from the predicted effects of climate change, finds a new ...

How Big Companies Should Scout New Technologies

It’s January, and in many industries that means kicking off the new year with a trip to a big trade show — from Detroit’s North American International Auto Show, to the Consumer Electronics ...

How to Stick to Your New Years Resolutions in 2019

When a new year rolls around, many people make resolutions in the moment, mostly based on impulse, says Entrepreneur Network partner Mike Phillips. The truth is, in order to properly achieve your ...

How Retirement Changes Your Identity

Teresa Amabile, professor at Harvard Business School, is approaching her own retirement by researching how ending your work career affects your sense of self. She says important psychological shifts ...

2018 Sets All-Time High For Investment Dollars Into Female-Founded Startups

As 2018 drew to a close, Crunchbase News reported on a year of superlatives. With technology impacting a broader set of industries, we’ve seen unprecedented funding amounts in 2018 (projected to ...

20 years of the euro: An imperfect success story – EURACTIV.com

The single currency, which was officially launched on 1 January 1999, has performed its role of shielding against crises and stabilising prices. However, the insufficient convergence of the ...

Minimum Wage 2019 -- What's the Law in Your State? - Small Business Trends

The federal minimum wage is currently set at $7.25 per hour. However, many states and local communities have higher minimum hourly rates for workers. In fact, 22 states raised their minimum wage ...

Gov. Evers wants to emphasize entrepreneurs, innovators

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Tony Evers wants to make it a priority for the state's economic development agency to work with entrepreneurs and supporting innovation. Evers on Monday announced the ...

I followed Ben Franklin's schedule for a month

As someone who is obsessed with productivity, I’m always looking for the latest book, idea, or tool that can help me accomplish more in less time. Sometimes, though, new isn’t necessarily ...

Upper-ocean warming is changing the global wave climate, making waves stronger - ScienceBlog.com

Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related threats as well. In a study published January 14 ...

What Every Entrepreneur Must Do To Reach Their Highest Potential

Former Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz carried three rules to every team he coached: Do what's right. Do your best. Treat others as you would like to be treated. To him, these simple rules would help ...

6 Leadership Insights To Inspire New Venture Founders - Startup Professionals Musings

Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Yet the ...

3 Signs That Apple Has Lost Its Innovation Mojo

If I were to meet with its third largest institutional shareholder, Warren Buffett, I'd tell him that he's made a bad bet on Apple (in which I have no financial interest). The reason, I'd ...

Why SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is Silicon Valley's power broker

Billionaire Masayoshi Son–not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg–has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live. And he’s spending hundreds of ...

Top 10 Global Biopharma IPOs of 2018

2018 was a record year for biopharma initial public offerings (IPOs), with an all-time high of $6.3 billion raised by 58 U.S. companies as of December 17, according to Renaissance Capital, compared ...

Fine Tuning the Trump Administration's ROI Initiative

As previously discussed, the Trump Administration’s Return on Investment (ROI) Initiative, which is geared toward increasing the American taxpayer’s benefits from federally-supported R&D, is ...

Do You Need A Degree To Be An Entrepreneur?

As an entrepreneur and restaurant owner with over 15 years in business, I feel I can identify what the most important skills and qualities are in order to be successful. I recently saw this question ...

Will Apple Be the Next Nokia? | INSEAD Knowledge

Amid a stunning slowdown in smartphone sales, what does the future hold for Apple and its global tech rivals? I have recently had the privilege of talking with high-ranking executives at both ...

5G Mobile Service Is Now Live in the US -- Here's Where You Can Get It - Small Business Trends

Major carriers around the world have set 2019 as the year they will start deploying 5G services. For AT&T this will be the case in 12 cities across the United States, and small businesses in ...

Seven Tips For A Successful Crowdfunding Campaign

With the peer-to-peer finance sector now growing at a rate of 35 per cent a year, increasing numbers of UK-based small and medium-sized enterprises are turning to crowdfunding as a viable source of ...

The 10 Weirdest Devices We Found at CES

Since the first CES 52 years ago, the world’s largest annual tech show has served as the debut platform for a host of buzzed-about gadgets. With the introduction of Royole’s foldable phone, ...

5 Predictions for the Boston Tech Ecosystem in 2019

Two local companies – PillPack and Sqrrl – acquired by Amazon; Carbon Black’s $100 million IPO; the $500 million check from SoftBank landing in the hands of Cambridge Mobile Telematics: ...

The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More

Companies considering how to invest in AI capabilities should first understand that over the coming five years applications and machines will become less artificial and more intelligent. They will ...

Venture Capital Up 32 Percent In 2018 For Digital Health Care – Report – BlockTribune

Mercom Capital Group, a communications and research firm, has released its annual report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the digital health /healthcare information ...

Antarctica is losing ice six times faster today than in the 1980s, scientists warn | National | napavalleyregister.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows. Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurements and computer models to ...

Top Sectors That Attracted Most Venture Capital In 2018 - Future Startup

Compared to 2017, a meaningful number of Bangladeshi companies has raised considerable venture capital funding in 2018. The number of companies, as well as the amount of investment they raised, both ...

Tasting Wine Stimulates Your Brain More Than Math | Travel + Leisure

Any good wine snob knows that, despite the term’s intended negative connotation, the label should really be worn like a badge of honor. Sure, some beer lovers or, even worse, casual wine drinkers ...

Tim Berners-Lee is taking a break from MIT to build a more secure web

The World Wide Web looks nothing like Sir Tim Berners-Lee had envisioned, but almost 30 years after its inception, the renowned computer scientist has an idea that could fix it. He announced that he ...

By naming a chief innovation officer, Dallas took a big step toward becoming an innovation hub | Commentary | Dallas News

On Monday, the City of Dallas named Laila Alequresh as its first-ever chief innovation officer. This is a critical step forward in the North Texas region's journey to be, and be known as, a hub for ...