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Bioengineering Capstone Programs: 5 Ways to Maximize Impact

Venture Well

Bioengineering capstone programs help prepare students for real-world challenges in a way that is different from any traditional lab course. The post Bioengineering Capstone Programs: 5 Ways to Maximize Impact appeared first on VentureWell.

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To Infinity and Beyond: 500’s Next Chapter

500

My journey with 500 began eight years ago as a startup founder in Batch 3. At the time, 500 was a fledgling early stage investor just beginning to establish itself in Silicon Valley. 500 and its team of underdogs were making a name for themselves as scrappy investors willing to take risks in areas they believed other VCs overlooked, and their boldness skyrocketed them into national recognition.

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7 Productivity Tips for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Save time and lower stress with these productivity tips from Bryce Welker , a CPA and the founder of Crush The CPA Exam as well as an EO San Diego member. I’ve spent quite a long time working as an entrepreneur, but not all of that time has been productive. I’ve made many mistakes in the past and wasted a great deal of time as a consequence. However, I’ve learned some useful tricks over the years that have managed to cut down on wasted time while also reducing stress.

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Benchmarking Zoom's S-1:How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tomasz Tunguz

In the past few years, Zoom has become a verb: the act of video conferencing someone. Eight years ago, Eric Yuan, former VP Engineering at WebEx left to create a business with a better video conferencing product. He and his team authored a new codec, which is far more resilient than others. The innovation results in higher quality calls. Focused on capital efficiency from the earliest days of the business, Eric has built a monster software business, with few comparisons in both absolute scale an

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Love’s Cup finalists, semifinalists named

Innovation 2 Enterprise

HIGH GROWTH GRADUATE DIVISION TEAMS. Axiom Graphene. The University of Tulsa. Advisor: Claire Cornell. Team Leader: Bailey Stewart. Team Members: Rahul Kundu, Jared Mason and Bailey Stewart. Axiom Graphene uses a newly developed process to produce a high-grade, low-cost nano-material known as Graphene, a super strong and light weight carbon-based product that promises breakthroughs in the energy, automotive and medical industries. .

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Effective Leadership, Defined

Entrepreneurs' Organization

How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders—the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture, and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? After surveying more than one million leaders worldwide, co-authors Robert (Bob) J. Anderson and William (Bill) A. Adams have drawn on their research to define leadership that works, that does not, that scales, and that limits scale, in their book SCALING LEADERSHIP: Building Organizati

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Five Reasons to Sell End-to-End Products in Early Markets

Tomasz Tunguz

In early and developing markets, selling complete products is often a superior go to market strategy, rather than selling an innovation in a layer in the stack. This is true for five reasons. First , for early customers to generate value from a novel technology, that technology must solve a business problem completely. End-to-end products do that. Layers in the stack don’t.

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World After Capital: Freedom to Create

Continuations

NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital continues the chapter on psychological freedom. Freedom to Create The next step in the Knowledge Loop after learning is creating. Here too we need to work on our freedom. Picasso once said: “we all start out as artists, the challenge is to remain one.” My personal experience bears that out. I created many paintings growing up (some thankfully kept by my mother) that I doubt I would be able to create today.

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One Simple Way to Eliminate Distractions in a Board Meeting

Both Sides of the Table

Photo by ROBIN WORRALL on Unsplash Several members of your executive taken hours to prepare board materials so that you can inform your board of how things have gone since you last met 3 months ago and you have 3 hours together to make sure they have an accurate picture and to make sure you have their input into how to proceed in the months ahead. Given how seldom you come together you’d imagine you’d have the boards’ full attention during this time.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Vision and passion drive successful entrepreneurs

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. Successful entrepreneurs have vision. They are driven by passion and possibilities. It is a privilege to watch them in action. A case in point is Dr. Ryan Dennis, CEO of Linear Health Sciences, a medical device company whose safety valve technology will change the way patients are connected to their treatments.

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Think ahead when raising your early investments

Berkonomics

Some businesses just can’t fit within the angel capital or friends and family model for raising funds. Sooner or later you may need to seek venture capital and accommodate the needs of the venture community in negotiating the terms of an investment. What VC’s can and cannot do. First, VC’s in general cannot invest in ‘S’ corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s).

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The Opportunity Bank

EntreWorks Consulting

I’m not sure that access to capital is the number one problem facing small business today, but it clearly serves as one factor that contributes to lower business start-up rates, more business failures, and slower small business. That’s why I’m pleased to see that Third Way , a newish DC-based think tank, is pitching a big idea that they are calling the Opportunity Bank.

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When Is a Business Accelerator a Better Option Than Business School?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Ryan Villanueva is an entrepreneur, educator and co-founder of Best Delegate , a rapidly growing education company with a goal of making Model United Nations a worldwide program in order to help this generation of students lead the world to a better, more peaceful, just, and sustainable future. As a graduate of EO Accelerator and a current EO Boston member, Ryan says that he “shares huge debt of gratitude toward the EO Accelerator program for its impact on my business and my own professio

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Video: Top 5 digital marketing trends and how they are changing in 2019

NZ Entrepreneur

If you’re running a business in NZ or Australia – whether you’re just getting started or you’ve got a nationwide presence with a large market share – these digital marketing tips will be essential for everyone to not only capitalise on a golden opportunity in the digital space but also stay relevant. Because remember, if you are not moving forwards, you are moving backwards!

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Love’s Cup Interview winners announced

Innovation 2 Enterprise

High Growth Division Interview winners. The Chickasaw Nation Student Generated – Kozorazzi Technologies, The University of Oklahoma. Greater Oklahoma City Chamber Healthcare – WhiteGlove, The University of Oklahoma. OCAST Information and Technology – Zonx, The University of Oklahoma. OG&E Positive Energy and Environmental – SeePay, Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

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Uncertainty Wednesday: Mueller Report Edition (Hindsight Bias)

Continuations

In the last few Uncertainty Wednesdays , we have been looking at various fallacies arising from our lack of appreciation of uncertainty, such as imperfect correlation (narrative fallacy) and the baserate fallacy. Today we will look at hindsight bias , for which the Mueller Report provides as perfect example. Hindsight bias is the tendency after an event occurs to conclude that we knew the event would occur all along.

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