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Cybersecurity Skills Gap: Solutions to Fill the Talent Void

The Startup Magazine

Effective talent acquisition strategies include partnering with educational institutions, participating in industry events, and leveraging online platforms. According to a government website, there are more than 641,000 active apprentices in the US. Are There Any Government Initiatives Aimed at Addressing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap?

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Does Your Small Business Need Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

YoungUpstarts

In Texas, workers’ compensation insurance is optional unless the business is a construction company on contract for the government. Every state also specifies whether sole proprietors, single member LLCs, partners, and family farms are considered employees and may opt-out or into workers’ comp. The Size of Your Business Might Matter.

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An Overview Of Cyber Risks

YoungUpstarts

by Bart McDonough , CEO and founder of Agio, and author of “ Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals “ William and Nancy Skog had cherry-picked an impeccable, perfect, river-front residence in Wilmington, Illinois.

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Tianyi Joe Zhu, Entrepreneur and Startup Advocate

The Startup Magazine

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. He got his start in entrepreneurship when he was in college, where he attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. This year, SmartHealth partnered with Rosalind Franklin University to set plans to build a $50 million, four-story, 100,000 square foot Biotech Innovation Park.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together. Principal Investigator: Ali Abbas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Principal Investigator: Yi Lu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

Testing hypotheses with doctors, patients, payers, providers, purchasing departments, strategic partners is hard. However, one of the bottlenecks in actually doing Customer Discovery for medical devices/health care is testing how minimal viable products work in-context. It Takes a Village.

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Saving Universities From Extinction No Easy Task

YoungUpstarts

Structure change efforts to both insist on innovation and respect governance. Administrators who move to change fast and furious are at risk of faculty rebellion, and yet innovation left to faculty governance is likely to fail on NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) ground (“Reform is great. Just don’t change my course”).

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