Xavi Martí: Blog with useful practical details about Technology transfer
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Roadmap for setting up an academic spin-off
Magnetics and Piezoelectrics: from science to business
Penyalab, the start-up incubator co-founded by IGSresearch at the CMU University of Barcelona
....... and many more within the broad subject of closing the gap between science and technology
Znanost na cesti, znanje in ideje na prepihu - Science on the Street
Promotion of science, Facebook page
http://www.znanostnacesti.si "Znanost na cesti, znanje in ideje na prepihu" je serija poljudnoznanstvenih predavanj, ki se odvijajo zvečer na javnih mestih - galeriji, kavarni, na trgu, v Ljubljani. Dogajanje je bilo zasnovano kot odgovor znanstvene sfere na aktualna družbena dogajanja. V sklopu odzivov slovenske javnosti na krčenje sredstev na različnih področjih je bila znanstvena sfera ena tistih, ki so jo pozivi k uličnim protestom spodbudili k razmišljanju v proaktivni smeri in samokritičnemu razmišljanju o vlogi in ugledu znanosti v Sloveniji.
Roadmap for setting up an academic spin-off
Posted on June 26, 2015
Full textDr Xavi Martí
Research Scientist at Czech Academy of Sciences
Roadmap for setting up an academic spin-off. While I found many guides for setting up and managing companies and start-ups, the process of creating companies with 1 or 2 academics, plus 1 or 2 non-academics, is less present in the literature. If the Academia is a source for creation and discovery, one should expect it to be a good mine for innovation. In practice, though, there are many issues that need to be considered. In the next posts, I will discuss few of the extrinsic and intrinsic issues that I am observing along the way.
Business and Innovation
Posted on June 17, 2015
The best way of financing for your businessDo you know anybody who has ever said: "No thanks, I don't need more money for my business"? Probably not. More money is always welcome, and there are several points in a company life cycle where cash is especially needed. Most entrepreneurs raise capital to grow their business but this term is somewhat vague and can mean different things, according to the stage of development your business is in. For example, if you're a startup, growing your business can mean that you also start selling your product to foreign markets, while if you're an established business, you might grow your business by performing an acquisition. The question is, what is the best way for you to raise capital, and how do you increase the chance of a successful funding round?
Posted on June 17, 2015
5 Financing Mistakes to AvoidOften, only the successful funding rounds hit the news; it seems that raising funds is something everybody can do! However, there are many companies that don't succeed, most likely because of one of the reasons we are about to discuss in this article.
Databases for startups - ideas, cooperation and investors
Posted on June 20, 2015
TED: Explore ideas worth spreadingTED is a platform for ideas worth spreading. Started in 1984 as a conference where technology, entertainment and design converged, TED today shares ideas from a broad spectrum — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independent TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
Posted on November 2, 2014
crunchbase.comCrunchBase is the world's most comprehensive dataset of startup activity and it's accessible to everyone. Founded in 2007 by Mike Arrington, CrunchBase began as a simple crowd sourced database to track startups covered on TechCrunch. Today you'll find about 650k profiles of people and companies that are maintained by tens of thousands of contributors.
Share your startup ideas and get comments. Reddit is open source. A type of online community where users vote on content. Redditors vote on which stories and discussions are important. the hottest stories rise to the top, while cooler stories sink. In October 2014, reddit had 174,088,361 unique visitors.
ideaswatch
Startup inspiration from the crowd. Get to know 6000+ entrepreneurs and developers from more than 160 countries via sharing and discussing startup ideas. Start a business together.
Kickstarter
Bring creative projects to life. Each and every Kickstarter project is the independent creation. Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects. It is a home for everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of projects, big and small, that are brought to life through the direct support of people like you. Since the launch in 2009, 7.3 million people have pledged $1 billion, funding 72,000 creative projects.
producthunt
Product Hunt surfaces the best new products, every day. It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.
How Funding Works – Splitting The Equity Pie With Investors
Posted on October 10, 2014
A hypothetical startup will get about $15,000 from family and friends, about $200,000 from an angel investor
three months later, and about $2 Million from a VC another six months later. If all goes well. See how funding
works in this infographic made by fundersandfounders.com
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2015 Career Handbook: The Employer Sourcebook for Scientists
Science Careers has teamed up with some great organizations to bring you information about the latest career opportunities in many different fields. The profiles include organizations that are recruiting and the types of positions they offer. We've also included our 2014 Top Employers article along with some general tips and advice on job searching.
Career Handbook 2015: Download PDF
Science Careers has teamed up with some great organizations to bring you information about the latest career opportunities in many different fields. The profiles include organizations that are recruiting and the types of positions they offer. We've also included our 2014 Top Employers article along with some general tips and advice on job searching.
Career Handbook 2015: Download PDF
26 ideas from the future
Speakers and attendees (MIT Media Lab, TED Fellow, Google, Dell, Pritzker Innovation Fund, Twitter, and many others) at TED2014 shared their thoughts on what might radically change society, life, technology and so on in the next 30 years.
Speakers and attendees (MIT Media Lab, TED Fellow, Google, Dell, Pritzker Innovation Fund, Twitter, and many others) at TED2014 shared their thoughts on what might radically change society, life, technology and so on in the next 30 years.
The secret ingredient that makes some teams better than others
Culture defines any business, but it's one of the hardest things to manage. In this extract from her new TED Book, Margaret Heffernan lays out the often-overlooked element necessary to build an effective, efficient organization: social capital.
Culture defines any business, but it's one of the hardest things to manage. In this extract from her new TED Book, Margaret Heffernan lays out the often-overlooked element necessary to build an effective, efficient organization: social capital.
What motivates us at work? More than money
"When we think about how people work, the naïve intuition we have is that people are like rats in a maze," says behavioral economist Dan Ariely (TED Talk: What makes us feel good about our work?) "We really have this incredibly simplistic view of why people work and what the labor market looks like."
Instead, when you look carefully at the way people work, he says, you find out there's a lot more at play — and at stake — than money. Ariely provides evidence that we are also driven by the meaningfulness of our work, by others' acknowledgement — and by the amount of effort we've put in: the harder the task is, the prouder we are.
"When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it: meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride, etc.," Ariely says.
Below, take a look at some of Ariely's other studies, as well as a few from other researchers, with interesting implications for what makes us feel good about our work.
"When we think about how people work, the naïve intuition we have is that people are like rats in a maze," says behavioral economist Dan Ariely (TED Talk: What makes us feel good about our work?) "We really have this incredibly simplistic view of why people work and what the labor market looks like."
Instead, when you look carefully at the way people work, he says, you find out there's a lot more at play — and at stake — than money. Ariely provides evidence that we are also driven by the meaningfulness of our work, by others' acknowledgement — and by the amount of effort we've put in: the harder the task is, the prouder we are.
"When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it: meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride, etc.," Ariely says.
Below, take a look at some of Ariely's other studies, as well as a few from other researchers, with interesting implications for what makes us feel good about our work.
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