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“Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me About the Rewarding Careers in Startupland?”
UMass Boston grad Gabriela Veloz ('14) and her CloudHealth Technologies colleagues talked to UMass Boston students about career opportunities in venture-backed startup companies. Remember those times when you'd wish someone just a little ahead of you would tell you...
read moreHack.Diversity Selects Nine UMass Boston Students for Fellowship
Ariana Gardner, University of Massachusetts Boston computer science grad & 2018 Hack.Diversity Fellow When the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) launched Hack.Diversity in 2016, they did so with the goal of addressing the underrepresentation of...
read moreUMass steps up to assist hardtech startups like no other university
With all of the technical resources available in the Kendall Square area, why do Cambridge-based Platelet BioGenesis scientists travel to the UMass Boston campus one day per week to use the animal facility and confocal microscope? According to Lea Beaulieu, Platelet’s...
read moreWhy Michael Bloomberg Turned to This UMass Boston Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence to Show the Way Ahead
One of the global entrepreneurs-in-residence at the UMass Boston Venture Development Center quite unexpectedly received an invitation from Michael Bloomberg to attend Bloomberg’s inaugural New Economy Forum (NEF) in Singapore on November 6-7 2018. Her name is Fanyu...
read moreUMass 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.
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