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Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations - WSJ

New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon.com Inc.’s second and third headquarters, according to people familiar with the matter, ending a more than yearlong public contest ...

Sorry, big tech, startups now are the innovators, ex-Cisco CEO says - CNET

For the last decade, big tech companies have wooed top students from universities to sustain their pace of innovation. But these days, young talent just isn't interested, said John Chambers, who for ...

How Colleges Are Helping International Students Land Jobs After Graduation - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Growing up on the Indonesian island of Java, Madeline Kusnadi always dreamed of someday working and living in the United States. It was a dream born partly from watching American television shows ...

California Needs A New Economic Model | Newgeography.com

Already anointed by The New Yorker as the “head of the resistance,” Gavin Newsom could well think he’s also king of California politics. He can both sell himself as the model of progressive ...

A Tale Of Two Cities: Amazon Picks NYC, Northern Virginia For New HQ

After a highly competitive site selection process that had communities across the U.S. touting their qualifications, Amazon has selected New York City and Arlington, VA, as the locations for the ...

4 questions recruiters ask about candidates who were fired

It’s the question that every candidate who has been fired dreads. “So why did you leave your last job?” A candidate that does their research before the interview will find many articles ...

Dan Schawbel's "Back to Human" explores the scourge of email

We should all plead guilty of email addiction. It’s made us anxious, stressed, and miserable. Yet, email is the most common form of communication in every industry, department, and country. Last ...

(7) You Need These Three Things to Stay Healthy for Life | LinkedIn

To live a long healthy life, all you need is a hug, a bike and a crossword puzzle. I’m simplifying, but seemingly every week new research is published highlighting the health benefits of staying ...

Honest Tea Founder Seth Goldman Maintains His Thirst For Entrepreneurship

Seth Goldman was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, and throughout his life, he dreamed of ideas to pursue. That tendency was enhanced when he crossed paths with Yale School of Management Professor ...

It’s Never Too Late to Become an Entrepreneur

An Entrepreneur is often pictured as a young adult, hardly out of college, with a dream (not necessarily a vision) to transform the world. While the stereotype has been confirmed through the ...

Launch of simple guide to Scotland’s Health Research and Innovation Ecosystem | The Edinburgh Reporter

The directory, called Scottish Health Research and Innovation Ecosystem launched today at the annual Life Science Scotland conference in Glasgow by Dave Tudor, Co-Chair of the Life Sciences Scotland ...

(Re)-Designing Organisations in the Age of Algorithms | INSEAD Knowledge

Strategy execution still requires organisation design and development skills. But here’s what it may look like in a world of big data and AI. The skills needed to be a top-tier organisation ...

Here's why you should avoid raking your leaves

Put down the rake, and back away from the leaves. Dry, dead leaves may be unsightly to your neighbors, but they are great wildlife habitat for a slew of creatures, according to David Mizejewski, a ...

Enough With All the Innovation - The Chronicle of Higher Education

At Wayne State University, a commuter campus in Detroit where faculty members and students struggle to turn people out for events, the opening of the Innovation Hub last fall was a big deal. ...

Biopharma needs a new R&D, innovation model - MedCity News

Leaders within the biopharma industry have long enjoyed the pride of knowing that their work improves millions of lives and offers great benefits to humanity. They share a collective sense of ...

Google hires a health care CEO to organize its fragmented health initiatives - The Verge

Google has hired Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg to oversee its many health care initiatives, reporting to AI chief Jeff Dean and working closely with CEO Sundar Pichai to organize Google’s ...

10 Israeli Startups Shaping The Cities Of Tomorrow

The 1939 "World of Tomorrow" fair in NYC presented an optimistic vision of the future which included robots, flights to outer space and automated freeway systems. A significant part of the fair was ...

Shortcuts For Simplifying How To Think, Act, and Lead - Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app ...

Millionaires Who Started Out With Newspaper Routes | Reader's Digest

These highly successful folks may be rolling in dough now, but their careers had humble beginnings with a first job full of nostalgia—the iconic newspaper route. Find out who got started by ...

This Entrepreneur Shares The Formula He Used To Create Several Billion Dollar Companies

Kevin Ryan is one of those startup titans, that when anyone hears he is raising money for a new company, they want it. With over $700M in capital raised, across 40 plus fundraising rounds and one of ...

Fish Oil and Vitamin D Supplements May Not Help Prevent Heart Attacks and Cancer | Time

There’s good evidence that fish oil supplements may lower the risk of second heart events — like a heart attack or stroke — in people with heart disease, but few rigorous studies have ...

New Enterprise Associates sells stakes in portfolio companies - Pensions & Investments

New Enterprise Associates has closed a deal to sell $1.3 billion of interests in about 20 portfolio companies to a new fund managed by a new venture capital firm headed by two former NEA executives, ...

What Signs to Look Out for When Reading Shareholder Letters

Within Entrepreneur Network partner Phil Town's portfolio of Rule No. 1 investing rules, there are four principles that begin with "M" to follow. One of these rules is management. Warren Buffett ...

State of Triangle's startup ecosystem – Good? Bad? Investor, entrepreneur Chris Heivly speaks up | WRAL TechWire

RALEIGH – Veteran entrepreneur and investor Chris Heivly is not someone who is known as never expressing his opinions, and in talking about the state of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, across the ...

The Single Greatest Source of Innovation According to Apple – Innovation Excellence

What is the single greatest source of innovation? I’ll give you a hint, it’s not a product. You can innovate it faster than any product, it creates the most enduring value for your company, and ...

Movement aims to make Baltimore the 'city that codes' — and it's starting young - Carroll County Times

From the outside, the old rec center on a corner in Federal Hill looks the same, the kind of place where kids do arts and crafts, and play basketball. But over the past five years the inside has ...

5 Ways to Measure Whether Your Idea Will Become a Great One… or Fail Miserably. – Innovation Excellence

“Everything begins with an idea.” Right? Uhhmmm… not really. Instead, everything begins with a problem. Something happens (or doesn’t happen) that highlights a problem that either already ...

Silicon Valley: The land of unicorns — and trolls | TheHill

I live in an enchanted and magical land of rainbows and unicorns called "Silicon Valley." In addition to unicorns, Silicon Valley is also inhabited by trolls, who emerge from under their bridges to ...

Why 1776 is closing its original incubator location, and thoughts on its future in DC - Technical.ly DC

1776 plans to leave its current D.C. location at 1133 15th St. NW after the prominent incubator network couldn’t reach an agreement over lease renewal terms with the building’s owner, ...

Waltons donate $23.7M to foster research at University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE -- A $23.7 million gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation to boost research and commercialization efforts at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville includes money ...

Four out of every five San Francisco homes cost over $1 million — Quartz

A truism of American politics is that California has its own values. That goes for real estate too, it turns out. Across the US, fewer than four out of every 100 homes are worth more than $1 ...

“Opportunity Zones” Are a Chance to Score, EJF Capital Says - Barron's

EJF Capital lives in the space between investing and regulation. It calls itself a “regulatory event-driven” firm, its $10 billion split between equity and debt in rule-heavy industries like ...

The risks of starting a new business without a safety net

Many Americans see entrepreneurs as the saviors of our day–the engines of economic growth and innovation in our communities, workplaces, and daily lives. We love reading stories about self-made ...

Early Adopters Are Not Enough To Assure Your Success - Startup Professionals Musings

Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent ...

8 Keys To Market Delivery Of Innovative Technologies - Startup Professionals Musings

Since I am a techie at heart, I always get excited when founders pitch their new innovation as “disruptive,” meaning that it is so unique that it will create a new market and disrupt the ...

Backstage Capital's Philadelphia accelerator will open in new Science Center building - Philadelphia Business Journal

The Cambridge Innovation Center, which manages office space at 3675 Market, was the "most compatible" space for the accelerator, which is focused on supporting underrepresented founders. Image: ...

Here Are the Health Benefits and Side Effects of Aspirin | Time

Aspirin is best known as an over-the-counter painkiller. But acetylsalicylic acid, as it’s called chemically, has many other health benefits, as well as side effects, in the body that have only ...

The Amazon quest turned the spotlight on Pittsburgh's tech shortcomings | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Investors aren’t coy about what’s the greatest uphill battle for entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh: There’s simply not enough cash floating around here for tech startups to latch onto. The ...

Is There Any Science Behind the Myers-Briggs Test?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has been widely used by businesses, universities, the military and other organizations for decades to assess personality. But there is very little, if any, science ...

How to approach your job like an entrepreneur

If you work for a large, established corporation–or even in a department that has historically been resistant to change–the notion of thinking or acting like a startup founder feels like a non ...