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29.10.2024 | Embracing Failure: The Key to Entrepreneurial Resilience | In the realm of entrepreneurship, failure is often seen as a dark cloud looming over aspiring business owners. Yet, like rain that nourishes the soil, failure can be a catalyst for growth. The journey of an entrepreneur is rarely a straight... |
28.10.2024 | I Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs Why It's Good to Fail — Here's How to Turn That Failure Into Success It's important for all entrepreneurs to learn how to accept failure — it happens to everyone. Here's... | In the world of entrepreneurship, the startups that succeed get the lion's share of attention. But I argue that there's more to learn from failed ventures. Accepting failure and learning from it increases the chance of future success.
My st... |
26.10.2024 | These 3 Trends Will Change What It Means to Be an Entrepreneur in 2025 Here are three entrepreneurship trends from the new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report that are changing the landscape for th... | The most recent data from the new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report reveals a powerful trend for the future of entrepreneurship.
Young adults, aged 18-24, had both the highest entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial intentions in ... |
21.10.2024 | I Teach Aspiring Entrepreneurs How to Prototype — Try These 4 Simple Tips to Turn Blank Pages Into Blueprints Here's how you can use prototyping to bring your business ideas to life. | One of the most daunting things you can do as an entrepreneur is stare at a blank piece of paper. It's also, however, the most important.
Taking time to visualize your product and its various use cases allows you to see how your idea can go... |
11.10.2024 | I Wasted So Much Time By Not Doing These 4 Things When I Started My Business Here's what I've learned by building my business and what I would do differently if I could start over. | Starting a business in college sounds simple, even glamorous, doesn't it? The freedom to experiment, the optimism of youth and the abundance of resources at your fingertips. But in reality, there's an overwhelming flood of conflicting advic... |
10.10.2024 | Business | Holiday deals are here. Don’t let debt follow | Holiday spending falls under the “wants” category of the 50/30/20 budget, which allocates 50% of your take-home pay to needs, 30% to wants and 20% to savings and debt repayment.
Setting aside $10, or any amount you choose, each week or day ... |
29.09.2024 | I Hit Rock Bottom When My Childhood Dream Crumbled Before My Eyes — But Entrepreneurship Saved Me. Here's What I Learned About Purpose, Perseverance and People. The day I accepted that my dream of bec... | Imagine dedicating your entire childhood to one dream, only to watch it crumble just as you're about to achieve it. That's exactly what happened to me when my lifelong goal of becoming a professional soccer player fell apart at 19. What fel... |
27.09.2024 | The Crucial Ingredients for Entrepreneurial Success: Self-Awareness and Personal Branding | In the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship, success is often a delicate balance of various elements. Among these, two stand out as essential: self-awareness and personal branding. Both are like the sun and the moon in the entrepreneurial s... |
23.09.2024 | Most Entrepreneurs Lack This One Quality That's Essential For Success — Do You? With practice, any leader can learn to embody this quality. Here's why it's so important and how you can start building ... | As a professor at Babson College, I've researched leadership for over two decades. I've partnered with more than 50 companies to help their employees grow and asked hundreds of leaders how they define self-awareness. Almost everyone talks a... |
23.08.2024 | I Won $100,000 for My Business Pitch — and 3 Simple Strategies Helped Me Do It Here's how entrepreneurs can effectively pitch their companies to potential customers and stakeholders. | Entrepreneurs have the ability to disrupt industries, inspire change and make the world a better place. But what separates good entrepreneurs from great ones? The answer is simple: It's their ability to pitch their business.
So, what does i... |
13.08.2024 | Want to Build a Business For the Long Haul? Follow These Steps to Become a Good Corporate Neighbor Companies that listen to the local community and respect its needs are laying the foundations for lon... | As someone in the data center industry, I never imagined tree planting and orchard tending would be part of the job description.
But this Earth Day, my company launched a partnership with a non-profit to restore areas damaged by forest fire... |
09.08.2024 | Building Bridges: The Power of Employee Engagement in Today's Workforce | In the bustling world of business, employee engagement is the lifeblood that keeps organizations thriving. It’s not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity. As companies navigate the shifting sands of the modern workplace, understanding and imple... |
08.08.2024 | Don't Fall for These 3 Marketing Myths — Here's What to Do Instead Here's how entrepreneurs can leverage marketing to boost sales, help maximize their companies' potential and enable internal alignmen... | Startups fail for a lot of reasons. Bad marketing is one of them — and it's something entrepreneurs don't pay nearly as much attention to as product development or raising capital.
I'm a professor at a leading business school, Babson Colleg... |
21.06.2024 | Winners of 2024 BostonCIO ORBIE Awards Announced By BostonCIO | Executives from John Hancock, Travelers, L.L.Bean, KnitWell Group, Skillsoft, LIMRA LOMA LL Global, and Babson College Recognized for their Achievements.
BOSTON, June 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BostonCIO announced the winners of its 202... |
12.06.2024 | MONEY and SoFi TEAM UP TO RELEASE THE 2024 BEST COLLEGES LIST WITH MORE THAN 700 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY | 10th Edition of Money's Flagship Colleges List Analyzes Quality, Affordability and Future Earning Potential
List uses a unique star system instead of pure rankings
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, June 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Personal finance digita... |
12.06.2024 | Fast-Growing Mental Health Solution Partners with Headspace | Uwill becomes exclusive Headspace partner in higher education to support students, faculty, and staff
NATICK, Mass., June 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Uwill, the nation's fastest-growing mental health and wellness solution that serves more than... |
06.05.2024 | Ratio Therapeutics Announces the Appointment of Marc Becker as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer | BOSTON, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ratio Therapeutics Inc. (Ratio), an emerging pharmaceutical company employing innovative technologies to develop best-in-class radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment and monitoring, today announced the... |
01.05.2024 | What 20 Years Of Angel Investing Taught Us About Driving Progress For Women Entrepreneurs | 13 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Jo Ann Corkran and Loretta McCarthy
Twenty years ago, the landscape of angel investing bore scant traces of female presence, with women representing a mere 5% of all angel investors and 3% of fun... |
14.03.2024 | Remarkable College Offers Arrive for Concordia International School Shanghai Class of 2024 | SHANGHAI, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Class of 2024 at Concordia International School Shanghai has demonstrated exceptional global achievements in this year's university admission season. The students have secured their places at som... |
04.03.2024 | Venture Cafe Tokyo, General Incorporated Association Japan’s largest Recruitment of speakers for “ROCKET PITCH NIGHT SPRING 2024”, a festival for startups/entrepreneurs in the founding and growth stag... | [Venture Cafe Tokyo, General Incorporated Association] [Japan’s Largest] Festival of startups/entrepreneurs in the founding and growth stage “ROCKET PITCH NIGHT SPRING”
2024” recruitment for speakers begins
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27.12.2023 | USD 1.7M to Help GameTree Grow Healthier Gaming Communities | Ukrainian-American AI-driven social platform for gamers GameTree raised USD 1.7M from a whole constellation of investors, led by the renowned Corazón Capital The platform’s proprietary AI helps improve matchmaking and minimize the toxicity ... |
25.04.2023 | Babson MBA Ranks # 1 in Entrepreneurship by the U.S. News & World Report for 30th Consecutive Time | Wellesley, Mass., April 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- U.S News and World Report has ranked Babson's MBA program # 1 in entrepreneurship for the 30th consecutive year in its 2023-2024 list of Best Graduate Schools.
"This is a moment of i... |
28.10.2022 | Meet the Founder: High Time Foods on how to make a plant-based meat product stand out from the masses | In a market of “me too” products, differentiation is more crucial than ever for plant-based meat brands. An up-and-comer trying to stand out is US startup High Time Foods, which currently supplies restaurant chefs with a shelf-stable meat a... |
29.09.2022 | Babson College Announces Naming of the Len Green Recreation and Athletics Complex | Wellesley, MA, Sept. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Babson College today announced the naming of the Len Green Recreation and Athletics Complex, a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art facility located on the Babson campus.
The Len Green Recr... |
06.01.2022 | Eminutes Launches Women’s Entrepreneur Initiative, Invites Likeminded Partners to Join the Effort to Amplify Women’s Voices | Women business leaders are credited with increasing collaboration, professional balance, problem solving and team building in their companies, along with healthy revenues and public trust. “We see this as a lemons-to-lemonade moment: we can... |
21.12.2021 | HubSpot : The Ultimate Guide to Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship is the process of starting or improving upon a business with the ultimate goal of making a profit.
It often involves great risk and uncertainty, but it's also an opportunity to overcome those challenges and manage multiple ... |
14.12.2021 | AGB Welcomes New Presidents, Board Chairs, Cabinet Members, and Faculty as Members of Its Expert Advisory Councils | WASHINGTON (PRWEB) December 14, 2021
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the premier organization advocating strategic board leadership in higher education, today announced new members joining its esteeme... |
08.09.2021 | New Research Shows the Pandemic's Impact on U.S. Entrepreneurs | |
13.07.2021 | Babson College Announces Creation of Tariq Farid Franchise Institute | |
04.07.2021 | Babson Diagnostics Raises $31M in Series B Funding | Babson Diagnostics, an Austin TX-based medical technology company, raised $31M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Emerald Development Managers with participation from Healthineers, Prism Ventures, and Lago Consulting Group.
The compa... |
21.06.2021 | Babson College Board of Trustees Appoints New Chair, Jeffery Perry '87, P'23 | |
22.12.2020 | The Common Misconceptions About Entrepreneurship | President/CEO of Joseph’s Premier Real Estate; professor of finance, business, real estate at IRSC; author of Madness, Miracles, Millions. |
14.12.2020 | New ED II Colleges Have Been Added For The 20/21 Cycle, Here's The Complete List | Students applying to college might want to consider applying Early Decision II to boost their ... [+] chances of acceptance. Universal Images Group via Getty Images |
02.12.2020 | Funding Female Founders: If Male VCs Won’t Do It, Women Angels And Limited Partners Will | Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven Clinic© 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP |
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24.03.2020 | WIN Lab Miami leader Michelle Abbs moves on to next chapter: Mana Tech | Facebook
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26.08.2019 | WIN Lab Miami selects 18 startups for its fourth cohort. Let’s meet them | Facebook
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Patricia Siman already knew she wanted to start her own fashion company, but her specific startup idea came to her in the middle of the night, as she struggled to get comfortable in less t... |
30.05.2019 | Boulder Transport owner graduates from prestigious Goldman Sachs program | As an entrepreneur, Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos has relied on empathy to grow his business. The Dominican Republic native comes from a “family of achievers,” but he borrowed $7,000 from two friends and maxed out his credit card to start Boulder ... |
05.02.2019 | 8 Startup Pitch Competitions in Greater Boston | The Greater Boston area offers a few options for getting capital, such as: Consulting with angel investors, going through venture capital firms, taking a low-interest loan from entities like MassDevelopment or joining a startup accelerator ... |
12.11.2018 | FedEx invests $500K in Miami WIN Lab, which has made some pivots | Facebook
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FedEx contributed an additional $500,000 to support Babson College’s Miami Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab, an accelerator program for women-led startups founded to attack dismal statistics... |
04.10.2018 | Startup accelerators helped spark Latin America’s tech boom | Agustín Esperón Contributor
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Five years ago, no startups from Latin America were participating in prestigious U.S. accelerators like 500 Startups or Y Combinato... |
28.09.2018 | Boston Tech Watch: MIT, GoDaddy, Lionano, HqO, Centage & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Lots of Boston-area tech news to cover this week, so let’s jump right in.
—Lionano, a Woburn, MA-based developer and maker of advanced battery energy storage products for vehi... |
11.05.2018 | Africa Leads the way in women entrepreneurs | Frankfurt (Germany), May 2018. |
11.04.2018 | 10 Boston Food Tech Startups to Watch | Over the last decade, a food innovation community has been established in Boston’s greater startup and tech ecosystem. Think of ezCater, which was founded in 2007 and is now a nationwide marketplace for corporate catering. Think of Toast, w... |
29.03.2018 | Studies show venture capital underestimates female entrepreneurs | A recent Swedish study has shown venture capital funding is not going to female founders because of biases in the way venture capitalists view criteria such as risk and potential to scale when applied to female entrepreneurs.
The study, sum... |
11.12.2017 | 8 Student Startups to Watch in 2018 | Student startups, perhaps most of any other ventures, excel for enthusiasm, fantasy and willingness to learn.
As 2017 come to an end, we've taken a look at the most promising early-stage student startups we've covered this year. We've found... |
22.08.2017 | Thinking About Studying Entrepreneurship in Boston? Here Are Your Options | Entrepreneurship is an ageless state of mind. From kids trying to sell lemonade in the streets to mid-level employees who have been dreaming of launching their own business for years, it’s never too late (or too soon) to acquire or sharpen ... |
14.07.2017 | The Power of Choice: Why Online Classes Matter to Students | There is no lack of evidence to suggest that online classes have deeply transformed the teaching and learning landscape in higher education. In 2015, for example, nearly 30 percent of college students took at least one online class. But as ... |
14.07.2017 | The Power of Choice: Why Online Classes Matter to Students | There is no lack of evidence to suggest that online classes have deeply transformed the teaching and learning landscape in higher education. In 2015, for example, nearly 30 percent of college students took at least one online class. But as ... |
27.06.2017 | Women-Led Businesses Are Winners | Blog by Nicole Bradbury, Renewal Funds SVP |
29.05.2017 | Entrepreneurs from Babson College's WIN Lab Raises $5.5 Million in Funding | Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® just wrapped up its fourth year with two grand finale events in Boston and Miami, adding 37 leading women entrepreneurs to its growing alumni base.
WIN Lab® participants have collectively raised nearly $5.5 m... |
29.05.2017 | Entrepreneurs from Babson College's WIN Lab Raises $5.5 Million in Funding | Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® just wrapped up its fourth year with two grand finale events in Boston and Miami, adding 37 leading women entrepreneurs to its growing alumni base.
WIN Lab® participants have collectively raised nearly $5.5 m... |
24.02.2017 | DARTdrones pitches Shark Tank to build a flight school for drone pilots | Entrepreneurs who pitch on ABC’s Shark Tank typically make packaged goods and apparel. Occasionally, the high tech breaks through. XCraft, the company behind the PhoneDrone Ethos, scored a rare investment from all of the judges on the ABC s... |
20.02.2017 | There should be more women angel investors: Learn how at this event | Women are underrepresented at all levels of the investing game. Here at Technical.ly we focus a lot of how little venture funding goes to female founders (just 3 percent by some counts) but there’s another issue that may or may not be relat... |
29.09.2016 | No, Female Entrepreneurs Should Not Have To Hide Their Gender To Get Funding | On Wednesday, venture capitalist John Greathouse published a piece in The Wall Street Journal titled, “Why Women in Tech Might Consider Just Using Their Initials Online.” In a nutshell, he argues that the world of VC is so gender-biased tha... |
08.09.2016 | BlogHer cofounder starts conference to help women founders scale their business | Jory Des Jardins may have left BlogHer, the company she cofounded in 2014, but that hasn’t stopped her from advocating on behalf of women. On Thursday, she launched her latest project, a new conference called The Scale Collective — aimed pr... |
08.09.2016 | BlogHer cofounder starts conference to help women founders scale their business | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Jory Des Jardins may have left BlogHer, the compa... |
02.09.2016 | Black Businesses Are on the Rise in the U.S. | The number of African-American entrepreneurs in America appears to be growing slightly, according to a new survey—but they still lag behind their white counterparts.
In the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, which includes... |
08.08.2016 | Babson Research Shows What Startup Funding Looks Like Globally | Earlier this summer, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report for 2015, in which Babson College partook, revealed the most popular funding sources for startups. Now, more GEM findings have been published - and, this time, they’re fo... |
06.08.2016 | It’s Hard to Tell Who’s Driving the Uptick in Minority Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship in the U.S. is changing. Increasingly, small businesses are being started by Asians, blacks, Latinos, and other non-white minorities. But which minority is steering that growth is somewhat debatable, as two prominent report... |
03.08.2016 | How African American Entrepreneurs Can Power the Economy | For the last three decades, the rate of new business creation has been on a steady decline in the U.S., according to various researchers.
Some potential causes include the growing power of entrenched and larger companies, slowing population... |
21.07.2016 | The role of higher education in entrepreneurship | Eric J. Toone Contributor
Eric J. Toone is vice provost and director of Duke University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, and professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
The Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report recentl... |
19.07.2016 | Would-be Entrepreneurs See Fewer Opportunities | With so much global economic uncertainty, and fears that the U.S. economic expansion can’t last forever, business owners are starting to feel the pinch.
That’s according to Babson’s latest annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report, rele... |
14.07.2016 | VCs May Not Be as Biased as You Think | Take a look at the most successful initial public offerings in recent years, and you’re likely to find precious few companies founded or led by women.
That’s because only a minority of such firms ever get access to venture capital, and the ... |
31.05.2016 | 17 Entrepreneurs On the Right Time to Start a Business | This article is sponsored by Comcast Business, but all opinions belong to the author.
It seems nowadays that everyone wants to start their own business; within your own network of friends and family, there’s likely at least one person who h... |
19.04.2016 | Outside the norm: Being a 25 y/o female Venture Capitalist | Graduating from Dublin City University in September 2014 with a Masters in Electronic Commerce, I had no clue what I wanted to do next. I’ve been an Investment Analyst for close to 18 months now and to put it lightly, it’s been a very steep... |
18.04.2016 | Since 2012, only 11 black, female founders have raised more than $1 million in funding | I dare you. I dare you to name 1 startup founded by a black woman. Don’t worry. I’ll wait.
Right. You don’t know (m)any. And it’s not hard to tell why. Black women are at the bottom of the food chain. Right off the bat, they have 2 strikes ... |
23.03.2016 | Meet The Women On The 2016 Midas List | Gallery: Women Of Midas 2016
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08.03.2016 | Startupbootcamp’s Female MDs Talk Tech, Female Founders & International Women’s Day | Gender diversity within tech has been at the centre of attention and debate. And rightly so.
Despite the fact that technology, and startups, are leading innovation in the way we live, work and socialise, they have been slow to tackle impor... |
08.03.2016 | Spotlighting Women at SXSW on International Women’s Day | Women@Austin has put together a list of events of interest to women at South by Southwest this year. |
10.02.2016 | The Vinetta Project wants to help female founders in DC raise money | It’s comforting to believe that the world of venture funding is a meritocracy.
It’s comforting to believe that a founder has a good idea, pitches successfully and gets money from a VC to turn said idea into a business.
But of course, in rea... |
20.11.2015 | Stronger work-family policies help women entrepreneurs build better businesses | Entrepreneurship is arguably crucial for job creation and economic growth.
Yet persistently high levels of gender inequality in this segment of the workforce suggest that women remain a severely undertapped resource when it comes to growing... |
03.11.2015 | Invoice2go gets $15M to compete more directly with Square and PayPal | Since 2002, Invoice2go has provided small businesses with one tool—a simple way to create an invoice and send it to clients. Now, with $15 million in new funding, the company is preparing to expand more deeply into the small business produc... |
03.11.2015 | Invoice2go gets $15M to compete more directly with Square and PayPal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Since 2002, Invoice2go has provided small busines... |
24.09.2015 | The Surprising Bias Of Venture Capital Decision-Making | Rob Bueschen Contributor
Rob Bueschen is a founding partner of CoFounders Crunch, an entrepreneur-centric venture development firm focused on entrepreneurship education and ecosystem building.
Stories of entrepreneurs launching innovative i... |
10.09.2015 | MassChallenge Touts Gender Diversity Stats As Wider Dialogue Builds | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Lalita Booth is the CEO of a six-person startup, Navitome, which includes two women and four men.
But such is the state of the tech industry that sometimes when she walks into... |
03.08.2015 | Debugging the Gender Gap: Filmmaker Warns of Economic Crisis in Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As a former stockbroker, Robin Hauser Reynolds knows what it’s like to be a woman in a field dominated by men.
Over the past couple of years, the San Francisco Bay Area film d... |
03.06.2015 | Venture Capital’s Next Venture? Women | Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination suit against Kleiner Perkins is one data point in the discussion of diversity in Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry.
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26.05.2015 | Female Founders On An Upward Trend, According To CrunchBase | Editor’s note: Gené Teare (@geneteare) a past female founder, heads up the venture program and content for CrunchBase. Ned Desmond (@neddesmond) is the COO of TechCrunch and CrunchBase. This report is the first in a series looking at female... |
05.05.2015 | Challenges Women Face When Raising Venture Capital | May 5, 2015 4 min read
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Women start more than 50 percent of the businesses in the U.S., but account for just a small fraction of the companies that receive venture capital fundin... |
13.04.2015 | How to build a tech scene | No one would hire him.
Sick of his corporate job, Wil Reynolds went from Philly tech company to tech company, resume in hand, literally knocking on doors in search of a new gig. Half.com. GSI Commerce. Omnient. His asking price was $48,000.... |
08.04.2015 | Women in tech: Silicon Valley needs to take a play from the NFL | Late last month, a jury found venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins not liable in Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination suit, but the conversation didn’t end there. In fact, it has just begun. Pao’s bravery in coming forward has inspired many ot... |
30.01.2015 | Female Startup Founders are Starting to Flourish, At Last | The tech industry as a whole is overwhelmingly male, and when it comes to startups run by women, the numbers are especially disheartening: According to a recent report from Babson College's Diana Project, only 2.7 percent of U.S. companies ... |
07.01.2015 | How the gender gap in venture capital funding can be tackled in 2015 | It’s no secret that more men receive venture capital than women.
In fact, a study by Harvard Business School has found venture capitalists prefer funding handsome men in comparison to female entrepreneurs – even when the content of their pi... |
08.12.2014 | Venture capital takes a step in the right direction on diversity, but it’s still early days | The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) announced Monday the formation of a task force to help its members increase opportunities for women and minorities. On the surface, this looks like just another news release by an industry und... |
21.11.2014 | How one woman got past the “no’s” and landed VC funding | It’s slim pickings if you’re a female entrepreneur hoping to raise money. A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs t... |
15.10.2014 | Harvard, Babson College Are Top Colleges for Entrepreneurship | A recent report published in the October issues of Entrepreneur magazine points out that Harvard University and Babson College are among the top colleges for entrepreneurship, putting together top-tiered entrepreneurship curricula for their... |
12.10.2014 | Female Entrepreneurs Connect and Learn at Women@Austin | By LAURA LOREK
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07.10.2014 | Sexism in The Valley: While tech companies improve, data shows VC firms are getting worse | The dominoes are falling in Silicon Valley. Technology companies are releasing their diversity data, apologizing for the sins of the past, and promising to do better.
I know from my meetings with executives of Google and Facebook that they ... |
01.10.2014 | Study: Startups With Female Executives Get More Funding, But a Wide Gender Gap Remains | Businesses with female execs received as much or more venture capital funding compared to companies with only men on the executive team, but the vast majority of VC-funded businesses have no women entrepreneurs, according to a new study fro... |
23.07.2014 | Formal and informal investors: A blessing or a curse? | |
23.06.2014 | OnHand Raises $500K to Take its Trendy Tech Accessories to 2,000 College Stores | Babson College-born tech accessories startup OnHand announced Monday it raised a $500,000 seed round through private investment. The fresh funding will be put toward building out its product offerings and expanding into more than 2,000 stor... |
05.06.2014 | Babson Receives a $3M Gift to Help Educate the Next Generation of Family Entrepreneurs | (Dona Bertarelli with Babson President Kerry Healey. Image via Babson)
Babson College will be adding a new faculty chair to its directory, thanks to a $3 million gift granted by the Bertarelli Foundation.
The school announced it will be est... |
20.06.2013 | 10 Highlights From XSITE 2013: Akamai, Blackjack, Crashlytics, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Digging out from our fifth annual XSITE innovation conference at Babson College yesterday…huge thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors, attendees, and hosts for an inspiring d... |
09.05.2013 | Revealed: The winners of the 2013 GeekWire Awards | Co-founder Amy Balliett accepts the award on behalf of Killer Infographics for Geekiest Office Space.
Phew. Now that was fun.
We just got off the stage at the 2013 GeekWire Awards at the EMP in Seattle, naming winners in 14 geeky categories... |
30.04.2013 | GeekWire Awards: Keynote revealed, last chance to vote | We’re gearing up for the GeekWire Awards, May 9 at the EMP in Seattle, and today we’re pleased to announce that the keynote speaker at the event will be Chris DeVore — the startup veteran and angel investor who has played a key role in the ... |
08.01.2013 | 10 key startup tips from entrepreneur and Babson professor Michael Cummings | Michael Cummings advises hopeful entrepreneurs about different risks of the startup world.
Years ago, Michael Cummings wanted to start his own company. But he was not confident and unsure about the future — he was wavering.
Hearing this, hi... |