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UMass 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...
Why 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...
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...
HUBweek 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...
Verbotics 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.
“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...
How 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.
Leveraging 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...
My 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...