Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Voice tech is on the rise. According to a report from Edison Research and NPR, 53 million people in the United States own a smart speaker such as Amazon Echo or Google Home. And, 30% of this group owns three or more smart speakers. Voice tech is changing the way people shop and search online. For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020.

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Venture Well

APRIL 30, 2019

Gary Brooking from Wichita State University helps students develop a mindset that is open to understand broader issues to better solve problems. The post Faculty Spotlight: Gary Brooking from Wichita State University appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2019

Photo courtesy of Nicole Chan Studios. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is committed to helping entrepreneurs learn and grow to new levels of leadership by providing learning opportunities, mentorship and access to experts. Mike Tucci, Kris Porcaro and Jordi Mullor of EO Boston -member company and chapter partner, Lexington Wealth Management , recently organized an event where EO members spent the day with Alex Honnold , the renowned rock climber who became the first person to summit

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Revolution

APRIL 2, 2019

Meet the companies that will pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team on the upcoming Rise of the Rest Road Trip. In a few weeks, the Rise of the Rest Road Trip heads to Florida and Puerto Rico! The bus is hitting the road from April 29 to May 3 to make stops in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and the Space Coast, a set of counties on Florida’s east coast.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 9, 2019

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. When Gov. Kevin Stitt announced his vision for making Oklahoma a Top 10 State, those of us representing the Oklahoma Innovation Model — comprising OCAST (Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology), the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance (OMA), Oklahoma State University New Product Development Center (NPDC) and i2E — found ourselves nodding our heads.

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Dream It

APRIL 2, 2019

Press Release The venture fund and growth-focused accelerator accepted the cohort from a field of nearly 2,000 pre-Series A companies NEW YORK CITY, NY — April 2, 2019 — Dreamit Ventures, an early stage venture fund and growth-focused accelerator, announced its latest batch of startups this week. Dreamit works with top healthcare, cybersecurity, and urban technology startups, providing access to extensive customer, industry, and investor networks during its 14-week acceleration programs.

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Venture Well

APRIL 23, 2019

In honor of World Intellectual Property Day, we put together a quick-reference guide on the role IP rights play in innovation and entrepreneurship. The post Do You Have the Right Answers to these Intellectual Property Questions? appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2019

Tropical rainforests are home to more than half the Earth’s plant and animal species. The lush, green forests teeming with life once blanketed our planet’s equator, covering 14 percent of Earth’s land surface.In the past 200 years, humankind has done irreparable damage through deforestation, shrinking the rainforest footprint to just two percent of Earth’s land mass.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 12, 2019

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pa, Inc. (Ben Franklin/CNP) is the largest early-stage investor and supporter of technology-based start-up companies across the 32 counties of central and northwestern Pennsylvania. Headquartered in State College, and with offices in Erie, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Johnstown, Ben Franklin/CNP’s high-risk, early-stage investments, along with robust management assistance, help local entrepreneurs grow their companies, create jobs, and increa

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 30, 2019

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. At i2E, we like to invest in life sciences companies. About 40 percent of our portfolio is in therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. We recognize the abundant opportunity for these types of startups in Oklahoma, and we have developed the staff, expertise and partnerships to commercialize technologies in the sector.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 25, 2019

Among many other wise quotes, Albert Einstein left us a clear message: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” After ten years since the beginning of the economic crisis, many people continue to bet on the current economic model: a model that is based on hyper-consumerism and chain production, in which people and the planet are considered “externalities”.

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Continuations

APRIL 8, 2019

NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital ends the chapter on psychological freedom. The prior excerpts covered the freedom to learn , to create , and to share. The following ties this back to one of the central chapters on Humanism. Psychological Freedom and Humanism Self-regulation, through some kind of mindfulness practice, lies at the heart of psychological freedom.

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Venture Well

APRIL 3, 2019

The VentureWell OPEN 2019 conference was one for the books. Here's a photo essay highlighting the engaging and inspiring conference. The post OPEN 2019: Engaging, Inspiring, and Transforming the I&E Ecosystem appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Written for EO by Walker Deibel , an experienced acquisition entrepreneur who has co-founded three startups and acquired seven companies. . Would you rather move a heavy object already in motion or one at rest? If you remember high school science, you’d choose the one with existing forward momentum. Starting a business follows the same principle. It is much harder to get a new idea rolling than to augment a successful one that has tons of energy.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

According to Goldman Sachs , virtual and augmented reality (AR) will become an $80 billion market by 2025, and $2.6 billion will be specifically for real estate. The medium is extremely powerful. About 30% of the neurons in the brain are dedicated to vision, compared to only 8% for touch and 2% for hearing. Over the past week, Zillow announced the rollout of their 3D Home tool, which lets real estate agents show immersive VC views of homes for sale.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 2, 2019

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Innovate. Innovate. Innovate. That’s the common theme in today’s economy. Innovation stimulates entrepreneurship. Successful entrepreneurship creates net new jobs. Driving innovation through collaboration to create jobs is the entire reason for being of the public-private consortium of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST), the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance (OMA), the Oklahoma State University New Product De

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Impact Hub

APRIL 16, 2019

#ImpactOnTour ’s next stop this year is Impact Hub Bergen: at the gateway to the Norwegian fjords…. Located in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bryggen, the wooden walls of Impact Hub Bergen date back to the 18th century, when the Hanseatic League built its offices for the trade of ‘tørrfisk’ (dried fish). Hidden staircases and historic artifacts contrast the colorful furnishing and modern office equipment, providing an inspiring backdrop for social innovation, technology and the realization of

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UBI Global

APRIL 12, 2019

The Definitive Glossary of Must-Know Innovation Concepts The third installment in our Insight Series covers the terms and concepts used in the global innovation community that not everyone knows. Whether you are new to the world of business incubation or a veteran startup supporter, you can download: The Innovation Landscape from A to Z – […].

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Venture Well

APRIL 9, 2019

Maricely Ramirez Hernandez of E-Team Burnflex has changed how she thinks about inventing by first considering customer pain points. The post Innovator Spotlight: Maricely Ramirez Hernandez of Burnflex appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 11, 2019

EO members from around the globe are converging on the vibrant, diverse city of Macau in China for #EOGLC2019. And we’re continuing to profile some of the event’s premier speakers. Today: Steve Wozniak, who will be featured at EO GLC’s inaugural Learning Day. . Steve Wozniak is an entrepreneur and inventor who likely needs no introduction. For anybody who doesn’t recognize his name, he co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and is known as the developer of the 1976 Apple I—the computer that laun

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 12, 2019

Previously I shared Brad Feld & Neeraj Agrawal’s descriptions of how hard it is for a startup to achieve product/market fit… and the ramifications of that failure. Recently Jim Stanczak kindly shared an article identifying the solution : a numbers-based, systematic, empirical process for measuring product/market fit and iterating your product towards it.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 18, 2019

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Spring is an inspiring time of year around i2E as we enter the final phase of the 2019 Love’s Cup statewide collegiate business plan competition. Oklahoma owes a huge thank you to Love’s Travel Stops for sponsoring the competition, formerly known as the Governor’s Cup and now in its 15th year. This competition is a remarkable opportunity for hundreds of college and university students from throughout Oklahoma to synthesize what they have learned

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2019

The Global Gathering. Once a year, the top leaders from Impact Hubs around the world come together for the Global Gathering, where in one of our locations they review, shape, and decide on the strategy and governance of our network. While this event provides our changemakers with a chance to exchange insights on the social sector, debate challenges, share opportunities and identify trends across their markets and communities, it also presents an opportunity for innovators to simply connect: to b

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 28, 2019

Building a team of trusted advisors can be immensely helpful in the early stages of your entrepreneurial venture. Here’s how to build a startup advisory board. Knowledge is having the right answer, intelligence is the ability to ask the right questions. Every day we ask people to answer the questions that we simply don’t have the answers to. We ask strangers for directions, we ask mechanics what’s wrong with our cars or doctors why we’re feeling ill.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 15, 2019

Where does the time go? In early 2008 we announced the formation of Founders’ Co-op. We called it a fund, but at $2.7 million it wasn’t much of one, just some of our own money and some from a few local friends who knew how hard it was to be a founder up in this remote corner of the world. Seattle then was famous for its coffee, for airplanes, and as the home of Microsoft, a once-feared tech monopoly whose valuation had peaked back in 1999, brought low by the one-two punch of the internet bust an

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