by william.brah | Nov 7, 2018 | Internships, Startups, Student Successes
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...
by william.brah | Oct 2, 2018 | GEIR program, Startups
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...
by aijanisakova | Jul 13, 2018 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Innovation, Startups
by Himanshu Agrawal Verbotics AI is building a fully automated medical coding and auditing system. This will bring down the time to encode a medical record from 5-20 minutes to ~200 milliseconds. We aim to not only help hospitals code quickly and more accurately but...
by william.brah | Jul 4, 2018 | GEIR program, Startups
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 it is...
by aijanisakova | Jun 18, 2018 | Focus On Founders, GEIR program, Startups
by Felix Huettenbach Since founding my startup called W8X I have had conversations with numerous other entrepreneurs and the only question that is hotter than “How is fundraising going?”, especially among international entrepreneurs is “What VISA are you on?”. B1/B2...
by aijanisakova | Jun 1, 2018 | GEIR program, Mentoring, Startups, Student Successes
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...
