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UMass Boston’s First Entrepreneur Scholarship Awarded
Maria Vasco is the recipient of UMass Boston’s inaugural Entrepreneur Scholarship. She is a School for the Environment major in the Honors College passionate about changing plastic packaging in the beauty industry, and eventually founding a plastics alternative...
read moreHUBweek focuses on what’s missing in the immigration debate: Entrepreneurs
HUBweek is featuring a panel discussion (Immigrant Entrepreneurs from Main Street to the Fort Point) on October 10th at 3pm, City Hall Plaza, that organizers believe is the kind the nation needs to have. It is about whether we should open the door wider to immigrant...
read moreVerbotics AI is Disrupting Medical Billing in Healthcare
Verbotics AI is solving a major pain point of medical billing for hospitals and insurance companies, finally bringing big data analytics to healthcare.
read more“Can you help our friend Elliot Cohen?” The people behind PillPack’s success. And why it takes a community to raise a startup.
MIT Hacking Medicine where PillPack co-founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen met. The story of PillPack, the online prescription drug retailer acquired last week by Amazon for nearly $1billion, illustrates the power of a collaborative startup community and...
read moreHow to get a U.S. VISA as a startup founder
The article discusses the visa journey of an international founder that launched a company in the US.
read moreLeveraging the VDC: Student Collaboration to Boost Innovative New Ventures
by Stephan Manning, Associate Professor of Management at College of Management, UMass Boston, stephan.manning@umb.edu In Spring 2018, the UMass Venture Development Center (VDC) collaborated with my MBA ‘Strategic Management’ capstone class to jointly assess and...
read moreMy First Semester as a GEIR!
by Giovanni Conserva My first project as a GEIR reminded me that the best aspect of entrepreneurship is the opportunity to cooperate with brilliant and enthusiastic professionals from different backgrounds. During the last semester, 5 MBAs from Stephen Manning’s...
read moreEntrepreneurship + Academia
By Haim Nigri Throughout my academic experience and powered by my entrepreneurial mindset, I've always enjoyed the practical aspect of academia. I was always thinking how I could apply all the theory and knowledge I was gathering to other aspects of my life beyond the...
read moreMy Experience Working with UMass Boston’s Students: Designing a Final Year Project
GEIR experience working with UMass Boston’s students.
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