For venture capitalist Rick Desai, the question boils down more to the kind of person you are than your great idea. “It takes a lot of interpersonal behaviors” to succeed as an entrepreneur, says Desai. From his experience, he describes four crucial traits that he looks for when deciding which entrepreneurs to support. Read more>>
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Will Electric Planes Ever Happen? Here’s an Update on Their Status
In 2015, airlines burned through 276 million tons of jet fuel. That’s roughly 7 percent of global oil products, and leads to direct emissions that make up 2.7 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions. Electric airplanes could remove all of these sources of global warming, says Andreas Schäfer, a professor at the UCL Energy Institute. Read more>>
Don’t Let Time Pressure Dictate Your Options
Jan had recently accepted a challenging position in a new city. Keen to prove himself as quickly as possible, he didn’t hesitate to take on responsibilities at work. As a result, he had little time left to search for a home in a market already short on options. Before he knew it, his two months of company-arranged accommodation were over. Read more>>
Why Social Entrepreneurs Are So Burned Out
Can entrepreneurs help address the society’s biggest challenges — without burning out? These are pressing questions. According to Deloitte, private businesses are increasingly expected to help solve the most challenging social problems of our times — health, poverty, and the promotion of sustainable development — in the absence of, or in conjunction with, government action. Read more>>
AI is an inevitable force coming to healthcare.
The declaration was radical and to the point: “Eighty percent of what doctors do should be and will be done by machines using AI.” As legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla uttered those words at a recent healthcare conference, I looked around the room full of doctors, healthcare executives, and other industry leaders and took stock. Read more>>
Volvo, Luminar take big step in autonomous car development
Volvo Cars and U.S. technology company Luminar say they have achieved a key advancement in lidar sensing and perception, a technology regarded as essential to making self-driving cars safe. Volvo aims to have zero fatalities in any of its new models starting in 2020 and targets having autonomous vehicles make up one-third of its deliveries by 2025. Read more>>
This Latina Founder Is Innovating The Baby Food Industry: Here Are 4 Of Her Biggest Lessons Learned
Saskia Sorrosa left her role as the Vice President of Marketing at the NBA for a mission-driven career opportunity of her own making. Over the last three years that she launched and developed Fresh Bellies, a baby food startup, she’s learned many lessons about entrepreneurship that a 20-year career hadn’t prepared her for. Read more>>
Qualcomm sets up $100 million fund to invest in AI startups
Qualcomm Inc has set up a $100 million fund that will invest in startups working on artificial intelligence technologies, the U.S. chipmaker said. The fund, Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund, has already made its first investment via a Series A funding round of AnyVision, a face, body, and object recognition startup, the company said without disclosing the amount. Read more>>
An electric plane with no moving parts has made its first flight
Your typical jet plane is full of fast-moving blades. We need the spinning of turbines and propellers to create thrust and let us take to the skies. Or do we? In a paper out today in Nature, MIT researchers report that they have created and flown the first plane that doesn’t require any moving parts. Read more>>
That night, a forest flew. DroneSeed is planting trees from the air
Wildfires are consuming our forests and grasslands faster than we can replace them. DroneSeed is a Seattle-based startup that aims to combat this growing problem with a modern toolkit that scales: drones, artificial intelligence and biological engineering. And it’s even more complicated than it sounds. Read more>>
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