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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience. Achieving the wow factor, our facility is literally a smile factory using new ways to gamify skydiving and immerse guests in parachute simulations amongst educational skydiving museum exhibit.

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Why Black Friday Is Toxic for Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Take Apple as an example: they don’t offer discounts on their products (except for education), even though they could easily do so because their products are expensive. Think sustainably As a customer, when you buy something, you’re not just buying it for yourself but also for your community. socially, ecologically, or economically.”

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Life of Purpose: Madison Bachman Followed Her Passion to Research Baboons

StartupNation

“Our vision is a world where wildlife and wild places are protected, and the human communities surrounding these areas have the necessary support to live in harmony with nature and the local primate inhabitants.”. The organization embraces innovation, education, ecological research, and natural landscape restoration.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. It grants up to CHF 130,000 per company.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 55 Washington Street.