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Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge

Harvard Business Review

At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never imagined earlier in his career, like becoming a night watchman. Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

could launch a program of industry fellowships to pay recent engineering and business retirees to help SMMs as well as to “coach” next generation of manufacturing start-ups, business incubators, and technology accelerators. Finally, there’s a straightforward way to help SMMs boost their own expertise: The U.S.

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon. The idea was that by the end of the four year period, the student would gain a double degree from the two institutions they had studied via.