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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurs Hall, innovation is a way of life.

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7 Ways To Inspire Creativity In Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

Fast-forward a few years, and MyLocker.net now sells customized gear all over the nation out of our Detroit headquarters. One of the most frustrating structures you see in monolithic, global corporations is when employees never interact with people from other departments. Interdepartmental communication.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Given that of all existing U.S.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. Global and Local. and seen the rise of absolute juggernauts with deeply global ambitions such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

It has funding, change in fees to make them more rational, movement to make US into compliance with global patent standards (get rid of best mode , and move to ‘first to file’). If we move us to global standards that creates more jobs. Kappos: Over time we’re going to have to reoptimize to use the new Detroit office.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

Techstars Mobility (Detroit). When you ponder Techstars acquisition of UP Global, especially if you think about how horizontal scaling and geography intersect, you get a glimpse of another layer of functionality that we just added to the horizontal scaling model. Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin).

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University of Michigan Joins the Global EIR Network

Feld Thoughts

In 2015, I announced the Global EIR initiative to try something different. Today, I’m happy to welcome the University of Michigan to the Global EIR network. Applications are now open to become a Global Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Economic Growth Institution (EGI).

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