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Checkr and Fair Chance Hiring
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In early 2024, privately owned Checkr, a background check tech startup, was a leading voice in the fair chance hiring movement. Fair chance hiring, also known as second chance hiring, referred to the practice of offering fair and equal job opportunities to individuals with criminal records. In addit...
How a small change will reduce distortion in measuring innovation
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A major economic development organization's definition of innovation just changed.
A road map for startups, from Moderna’s co-founder
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Adversity can cultivate instincts that serve entrepreneurs well, says venture capitalist Noubar Afeyan. Here are his three tips to start innovating.
How Urban Innovation Fund picks and grows companies
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To compete, the venture capital fund sticks to its thesis, searches for companies solving urban challenges, and customizes success metrics.
Questions to ask before accepting venture capital
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And what VCs will ask to avoid the "cardinal sin" of startup investing.
Kirk Arnold
Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Osmoses wins the 2021 MIT $100K
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The clean-tech startup is developing new membrane technology for separating industrial gases and vapors.
Inaugural MIT Future of People conference to explore how science and technology will shape the body, mind and spirit
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How will science and technology impact the human body, mind, and society in the 21st century? The inaugural Future of People conference will explore this increasingly important question.
This MIT startup is putting the ‘you’ back in user
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Design research startup Human Element wants companies to stop selling to ‘users,’ start connecting as people.