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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. More and more startups are getting built without relying on University research--because hard technology is rarely the barrier to innovation these days.

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Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

Online education continues to get a lot of attention in the wake of COVID-19 and the shift it brought to how people can learn. And while most of its growth to date has been organic, it will be using some of the funding potentially to bring some inorganic growth into the mix. It would be quite a different product.”

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Behind the scenes: The challenges of building an EdTech startup

Startup Grind

Many have tried to revolutionize education and failed. Education startups need science and research based evidence on their approach to learning and education. I would definitely recommend UCL educate program for that side. Startup Failure Reason SharpScholar Layers of approvals needed for the product to be used.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. I want to encourage more innovative thinking.”. Promoting Disruption.

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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

TechCrunch

As Stein, CEO, worked with clients, she saw the need for specialized foods, like gluten-free, and what started as a side project — a blueberry muffin mix — was the catalyst for Purely Elizabeth and became her first product before moving into granola, which is what the company is known for today.

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

TechCrunch

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Some recent research that my company, Innovation Leader , conducted in collaboration with KPMG LLP , suggests a constructive approach. .”

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Serial fintech founder raises $20M for Ant Money to make micro-investing even more accessible

TechCrunch

Now as 2021 comes to a close, Cruttenden’s latest fintech, Ant Money, is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding (a mix of previously unannounced seed and Series A capital) and acquired Blast via a stock-for-stock merger. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”. Or is it more like Robinhood?”.

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