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13 Things on the Internet to Lift Your Spirits Right Now | Time

It is unpleasant, frightening and often lonely to be living in the time of a global pandemic. But as the coronavirus’ continuing spread contains people across the world in isolation in our homes, ...

Why You Should Become an “Intrapreneur”

Do you try to learn new things at work? Do you ask your boss to coach or mentor you? Do you often take on more tasks than your role formally requires? If you answered “yes” to these questions, ...

Financial planner calculates retirement income without Social Security - Business Insider

If you're decades away from retirement, your strategy won't look much like that of earlier generations who leaned heavily on Social Security to carry them through their golden years. Recent reports ...

500 Startups moves to rolling admissions instead of cohorts | TechCrunch

500 Startups is scrapping its cohort model for accelerating companies and moving to a rolling admissions process, the accelerator said during its latest demo day. One of the progenitors of the ...

We just glimpsed how a “digital dollar” might work, thanks to coronavirus - MIT Technology Review

A proposal for a new kind of government-run payment platform didn’t make it into the US Congress’s coronavirus relief plan. But it won’t be the last we hear of the ...

We're Online More Than Ever Right Now. Can the Internet Itself Keep Up? | Time

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the world, forcing major cities and entire countries to enter a state of indefinite lockdown, many people are being encouraged or ordered to work or learn ...

Startup Professionals Musings: 5 Entrepreneur Lifestyle Drivers That Lead To Success

As a startup advisor, I see many aspiring entrepreneurs whose primary motivation seems to be to work part time, or get rich quick, or avoid anyone else telling them what to do. Let me assure you, ...

If the Coronavirus Collapses State Budgets, What Will Happen to Public Colleges? - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Great Recession showed how a crisis can fuel state disinvestment. “If past is prologue,” one university official said, “we have reason to be ...

5 Lessons From Campuses That Closed After Natural Disasters - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Though the coronavirus pandemic is different, the strategies for responding are, in many cases, the ...

Beyond coronavirus: The path to the next normal | McKinsey

For some organizations, near-term survival is the only agenda item. Others are peering through the fog of uncertainty, thinking about how to position themselves once the crisis has passed and things ...

How Blood from Coronavirus Survivors Might Save Lives - Scientific American

Hospitals in New York City are gearing up to use the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 as a possible antidote for the disease. Researchers hope that the century-old approach of ...

Coronavirus symptoms vary widely: Dry cough, sore throat, fever, smell

For Elizabeth Schneider, her bout withthe coronavirus began with a scratchy throat, exhaustion and a headache. Then came fever, chills and nausea. But she never had shortness of breath or ...

10 Skills You Can Master During Isolation

Much of the American workforce is now working from home due to self-isolation. Most of that group will feel complacent, as they're being just productive enough to get by. But you're not "most of the ...

Startups Failure Tracker: Coronavirus Adds To Strain As Venture Capital Slows

Headed into 2020, startups accustomed to years of plentiful venture capital faced leaner times. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. The paralysis in travel and business caused by efforts to contain ...

Leading through a crisis: Applying the past to coronavirus | McKinsey

Savvy managers understand the fundamentals of crisis management, at least on the theoretical level. Their careers rise and fall on an individual’s ability to rally their teams, project deliberate ...

Google's summer internship moves to a virtual format for 2020 - Business Insider

Google has one of the most coveted summer internships in tech, but this year's interns will be swapping the "Noogler" hats for webcams as the entire program goes virtual, Business Insider has ...

Startup Yale 2020 | Yale School of Management

Startup Yale brings together Yale’s biggest entrepreneurship awards in two days packed with pitches, prizes, and world-changing ideas. Yale innovators will join community leaders, investors, and ...

What it’s like to go into the lab amid the coronavirus pandemic

ike grocery store clerks and Amazon delivery drivers, they’re among the essential workers of the coronavirus pandemic: the biopharma employees who must still go in to the lab or the manufacturing ...

One Root Cause of Pandemics Few People Think About - Scientific American Blog Network

It’s easy for those of us in the Western world to shake our heads at the live wildlife markets in China that appear to be the origin of the coronavirus pandemic now paralyzing the globe. Easy, ...

Open Call: EIC ePitching on COVID-19 | European Innovation Council

The EIC is organising a special ePitching-session in the light of the current COVID-19 outbreak in an effort to mobilize EIC projects. All EIC-backed SMEs that can contribute to possible solutions ...

A Virtual Visit to Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation - The Henry Ford

Learn from America’s greatest minds and engage in their stories. Using our indoor Google mapping, captured in 2015, and our Digital Collections, virtually visit some of our iconic artifacts and be ...

Begin Registration: Supporting Portfolio Companies During COVID-19

While navigating constant change Is a necessity for early stage companies, the intensity of the current environment requires a new level adaptability. Please join Victor Gutwein and Pat LaPointe ...

When might experimental drugs to treat Covid-19 be ready? A forecast

There is a desperate need for new medicines to treat Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has shut down much of the world. A vaccine to prevent infection entirely would be even ...

virtual Pediatric Pitch, powered by MedTech Innovator

Today we held a virtual Pediatric Pitch, powered by MedTech Innovator for the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation, an FDA funded consortium, led by Children's National ...

When tough times are ahead, you should double down on innovation – Innovation Excellence

As I’m writing this, the last couple of weeks have been quite eventful around the world. There’s a lot of uncertainty and even panic regarding the coronavirus, its current and potential impact ...

Investment in Pittsburg's technology sector - Trends and highlights, 2010-2019

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) and Innovation Works, Inc. are proud to present our eighth annual review of Pittsburgh’s technology investment landscape. This report provides a comprehensive review ...

USPTO launches the Expanding Innovation Hub, a new online platform to encourage greater participation in the patent system | Patently-O

Today, as part of Women’s History Month, the USPTO has officially launched the Expanding Innovation Hub (“the Hub”), an online platform available on the USPTO website that provides resources ...