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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. NYU just widened the door for more people to benefit from and contribute to their network, at nominal cost. This would cost almost nothing to organize, just one staff person’s time to coordinate. I suggest Yale and others consider a similar model.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

We ran the first National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class October to December 2011. In-between the 2011 pilot class and the first NSF class of 2012, I got a call from Congressman Dan Lipinski. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut. Congressman Lipinski Gets It. Syllabus for the class is here.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Connecticut.

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Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

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Oct 31, 2011. We make do with guesstimates and a vague recollection of what things are “supposed to cost.”” Marketing professors at Clark University and The University of Connecticut found that consumers perceive sale prices to be a better value when the price is written in a small font rather than a large, bold typeface.

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