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The Best (And Worst) States For Entrepreneurship And Innovation

Even in a down economy, established and startup solution providers will find more opportunities for expansion and growth in states that foster entrepreneurial, innovative business environments. ...

These Colleges Are Winning the Fight Against Covid-19 — at Least for Now

The U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Covid-19 evaluation protocol has been one of the most aggressive in higher education, with some 385,000 tests administered so far, and a seven-day case ...

Climate tech investment grows at five times the venture capital market rate over seven years - Modern Diplomacy

VC and corporate investment in startups developing technology enabled solutions to climate change, and the transformation to net zero emissions, grew at a faster rate than VC investment as a whole ...

Ann Arbor SPARK Helped Generate $132M in Small Business Investments in 2019 - DBusiness Magazine

Ann Arbor SPARK, a nonprofit business accelerator, recently conducted its rescheduled virtual annual meeting, reviewed its work in 2019, and its assistance to the business community during the ...

New $50M venture capital fund coming to Detroit | WWJ Newsradio 950

WWJ's Vickie Thomas talks with Candice Matthews Brackeen, General Partner, Lightship Capital and Margaret Trimer, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Delta Dental about a new $50-million ...

Remarks by Director Iancu at Promoting Innovation in the Life Sciences and Supporting Pro-Competitive Collaborations: The Role of Intellectual Property | USPTO

Thank you, Nyeemah, for the very kind introduction, and for being one of today’s masters of ceremonies. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the first day of our program focused on ways to ...

Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Entrepreneurial Spirit

As the nation mourned the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week, many tributes turned their focus to what her legacy will ultimately mean for women and the country. That legacy ...

8 Inspirational Insights For Those Chasing Your Dream - Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution ...

Why it's time to begin planning your COVID-19 exit strategy | McKinsey

The summer break is over. Most of us remained at home on “staycations.” More daring people jumped into their cars for road trips or even took “masked” airplane flights. What do we find after ...

How To Pull Customers To Your Website With Real Value - Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture ...

How technology is key to humanity overcoming the global pandemic | Oxford Mail

The restrictions regarding Covid-19 are changing on a weekly basis to deal with different situations effecting different areas, and there remains a sense of foreboding hovering over us all. ...

When Will There Be a Coronavirus Vaccine? | Time

The cleverest of enemies thrive on surprise attacks. Viruses—and coronaviruses in particular—know this well. Remaining hidden in animal hosts for decades, they mutate steadily, sometimes ...

Anthony Fauci Is on the 2020 TIME 100 List | TIME

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread to the U.S., there was one person millions of Americans immediately knew we could turn to for guidance: Dr. Anthony Fauci. As director of the National ...

The Subtle Art of Saying No

Bruce Tulgan, founder of the management training firm RainmakerThinking, says that the key to career success isn’t only embracing opportunities; it’s also declining projects, tasks, and requests ...

SSTI analysis reveals SBIR “mills” take outsized portion of the program’s awards | SSTI

SBA efforts to reign in abuse of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program continue, yet companies that seem to use SBIR awards as a primary ...

Head of JLABS @ Washington, D.C., Sally Allain, MSc., MBA, Guests on BioTalk - Biohealth Innovation

Sally Allain, MSc., MBA, Head of JLABS @ Washington, D.C. joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk to discuss her career, the decision to open a BioHealth Capital Region location, and their new BLUE ...

Making the Commute of the Future Happen | INSEAD Knowledge

Imagine it’s 8.00 am on a workday in the year 2025. You’re about to head to the office – a less frequent occurrence lately, since you, like many of your colleagues, work more from home. ...

7 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Automate

Your time is valuable, and if you don’t treat it as such it will flitter away until there’s none left. The goal is to clear blank space to focus on big, needle-moving projects and incredible ...

Why it maybe the opportune time to consider Corporate Venture Capital | e27

Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) has often been regarded as one of the most lucrative industries and for good reason. In 2018, over US$60 billion was invested in CVC deals. That number returned a 100 ...

‘Failure is a friend, philosopher and guide’ – 40 quotes from Indian startup journeys

Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 40 gems and insights ...

A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world | MIT Technology Review

What happens when a major city allows the coronavirus to rage unchecked? If the Brazilian city of Manaus is any answer, it means about two-thirds of the population could get infected and one person ...

McKinsey on Climate Change | Sustainability | McKinsey & Company

This special downloadable collection brings together recent McKinsey research and perspectives on the climate risks the world must confront and actions to reduce emissions. Image: ...

How To Think Like An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are a very specific breed of person and they think in a very specific way. You’ll likely know when you’re in the presence of one. Their words give clues as to how they think. It ...

Global COVID-19 cases top 30 million, according to Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON - More than 30 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed around the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections ...

Coronavirus vaccine could come thanks to horseshoe crab blood

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Allen Burgenson had a job, his father explained as they stood on the sand. This was Allen's first fishing trip, but he wasn't going to take anything from the bay. He was to ...

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration — ProPublica

Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people ...

2020 may be the year from hell, but health tech IPO boom continues - MedCity News

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, rising unemployment, and 2020’s other woes, healthcare technology firms continue to go public. So far, six health tech firms have already gone public in 2020. ...

American millennials are flocking to Colorado as the pandemic wears on - Business Insider

Occean is a born-and-bred New Yorker. But, as she told Business Insider, she recently turned 30 and found that her city needs and wants had changed. "I wanted things that NYC just couldn't offer, ...

Temperature Isn’t a Good Litmus Test for Coronavirus, Doctors Say - WSJ

Across the country, the litmus test for many children’s entry into school, athletics and extracurricular activities, is their temperature. But experts and medical groups increasingly say that ...

J.P. Morgan on the state of life sciences and strategies to fuel innovation - MedCity News

In an interview, Peter Meath, J.P. Morgan’s co-head of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Middle Market Banking & Specialized Industries, says the Covid-19 pandemic has cast a bright light on ...

When will the COVID-19 pandemic end? | McKinsey

In 1920, a world wearied by the First World War and sickened by the 1918 flu pandemic desperately sought to move past the struggles and tragedies and start to rebuild lives. People were in search of ...

Top 50 NIH-Funded Institutions of 2020

A new federal fiscal year (FY) begins October 1, but lawmakers at deadline haven’t even agreed on stopgap funding needed to keep Washington fully functioning next month, let alone come to terms on ...

McKinsey on Climate Change | Sustainability | McKinsey & Company

This special downloadable collection brings together recent McKinsey research and perspectives on the climate risks the world must confront and actions to reduce ...

You Don’t Have to Pivot in a Crisis

When Covid-19 burst upon the scene in early 2020, startup ventures faced dramatic shifts in markets and the importance of strategic agility became axiomatic: If you wanted your venture to survive, ...

5 Basic Ingredients For A Startup Recipe For Success - Startup Professionals Musings

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entrée for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. You ...

5 Business Relationships That Will Get You To The Top - Startup Professionals Musings

In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, high level relationships are everything. You can’t start a business alone. You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. But ...

COVID-19: Returning to the Workplace in a New Reality

COVID-19 has created a new reality for organizations returning to the workplace. This new way of working presents challenges for the physical and emotional, career, and financial wellbeing of ...

Why the U.S. Still Has a Severe Shortage of Medical Supplies

It may be hard to believe after all these months, but the shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical health care supplies for dealing with the pandemic in the United States ...

Investment themes and megatrends driving future growth

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed thousands, upended daily life, halted the economy and shattered asset valuations. While a pandemic may be new to most of us, market volatility is not. Shocks like ...

7 Keys To Being Willing To Risk Your Neck In Business - Startup Professionals Musings

Willingness to take a risk is the hallmark of a serious entrepreneur. That’s why one of the first questions that potential investors ask is “How much of your own money, and friends and family, ...