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These MIT Grads Want To Let Anyone Invest In, Or Even Start, A Bitcoin Fund
BY STEVEN MELENDEZ Cryptocurrency can be intimidating, but a new platform called Catalyst would enable investors to build their own investment funds. In recent months, the prices of virtual currencies bitcoin and ethereum have soared to record highs amid increased...
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VDC HOSTS HEALTHCARE INNOVATION MBA COURSE
By Robert Schultz Boston is home to the world’s leading life science supercluster. This provides ample learning opportunities for the next generation of health entrepreneurs. UMass-Boston’s MBA program now offers a course allowing student to quickly develop a new...
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Boston Innovation Leaders Turnout to Support Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Graduation is supposed to be a happy time. But many of our universities’ most promising entrepreneurial grads from other parts of the world dread it. Why? Because they have to scramble to get a visa to remain in Massachusetts and work for their newly created...
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How Does the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence Program Work?
A solution for entrepreneurs struggling with the uncertainty and limitations of the visa system “The Global Entrepreneur in Residence program seemed too good to be true, and we were skeptical at the beginning. But a couple of months after we engaged, we had the visa...
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Founder Interviews: Fanyu Lin, founder of Fluxus LLC
The interview is prepared by Matthew Furlong, UMass Boston MBA student graduating in May 2017. Fanyu Lin, Fluxus LLC Where are you from? China Educational background I received Master of Science degree in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University in the...
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Want to Understand a Distributed Ledger Revolution?
Chetan Manikantan, our very own Global EIR at the VDC, UMass Boston, and a Serial Entrepreneur, Design Thinker and a Polymath writes about the latest technological revolution taking over the world - in his simple yet powerful article titled "Mahatma Gandhi's...
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