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William BurkhartMelissa EngIt’s time for a new way of thinking about investing – one that can address today’s complex challenges. Previously, investors could find ways to insulate their portfolios from specific global events, but today even seemingly “local” events can have immediate and negative impacts on portfolios. The largest and most influential investors are recognizing this trend and are pondering the correlation between systems under stress and negative portfolio impacts. These investors follow a discipline known as “systems-level investing.” System-level investors believe that profitable long-term investments depend on healthy financial, social, and environmental systems. They recognize that their portfolios are…
One theory of American politics is that voters make sophisticated decisions about their votes only after carefully observing the competing candidates and examining the available information. According to this theory, the presidential debates are crucial moments in which candidates calmly present their positions to the public, respond to the criticisms of their opponents, and present their own criticisms.Perhaps 1 percent of American voters will act as described in the first sentence. The most recent time the second sentence applied may have been late 2012, but even then it may not have been the case.This sounds cynical, and maybe it is,…
This month, the Trinity College Entrepreneurship Center hosted the Global Youth Invention Summit Hackathon at Trinity College’s Innovation Hub in downtown Hartford, inviting middle school students from the Hartford area as well as middle and high school students from Singapore, Mexico and China. Trinity’s Entrepreneurship Center hosted the Global Youth Invention Summit Hackathon at the Trinity College Innovation Hub in downtown Hartford. More than 20 international students teamed up with 15 students from Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Hartford, Global Communications Academy in Hartford, East Hartford Middle School and Sunset Ridge Middle School in East Hartford to solve…
Many crypto experts believe the best presale of 2024 has already concluded. Memeinator debuted with a bang, raising almost $8 million in liquidity from thousands of investors attracted by its single-minded mission to wipe a ton of worthless meme coins off the face of the earth. The presale is over, but that doesn’t mean Memeinator is slowing down. Now that it’s listed on Uniswap and MEXC, Memeinator is closer than ever to reaching a valuation of over $1 billion. Here’s why: Meme Coins Thrive, Memeinator’s Journey to Go Viral Begins 2024 is set to prove to be the year of…
Wall Street’s main stock indexes were little changed in afternoon trading Thursday ahead of a key report on inflation.The S&P 500 fell less than 0.1%, with gainers and losers among the benchmark index’s constituents split between gainers and losers. The index remains near the all-time high it hit last week.The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.3%, just off its all-time high, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 19 points, or 0.1%, as of 3:18 p.m. Eastern time.Walgreens strengthens partnership The company plunged 24.5%, the biggest drop in the S&P 500 index, after reporting weaker-than-expected earnings, lowered its outlook and…
Convicted felon and former president Donald Trump is expected to choose his vice president in the coming weeks. (Trump will likely make the announcement just before his sentencing hearing on July 11, to get ahead of a new cycle of coverage.) The two leading contenders, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, are so underqualified that they inevitably draw comparisons to Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in 2008. That was the last time a Republican presidential candidate had such an obviously inexperienced and unorthodox second choice.Given Trump’s age and frailty, realistically, his number two may have…
For a team considered a “startup within a startup,” Wow’s growth team is no small thing in size and impact. The company’s CEO, Will Ahmed, gave the team the nickname, according to Business Analyst II. Carolyn ChambersThis statement rings true given the “clear, aggressive goals” that have driven the team over the past few months. When the wearable device company acquired question-and-answer platform AnyQuestion late last year, it wasn’t just the product that changed. As a result of the acquisition, former AnyQuestion CEO Ed Baker joined the company as chief growth officer and the company’s entire growth team expanded, according…
Only successful entrepreneurs talk publicly about their business failures, but what was Poole College graduate Mark Saad’s first memorable failure? His company tried to sell 65,000 pairs of children’s flip-flops that don’t have backstraps to keep them on kids’ feet, but only sold about 10 percent of them in the first year, Saad said recently as a panelist at the annual Raleigh-Durham Startup Week. “When you look at successful entrepreneurs, you think they’re always hitting home runs, but that’s not the case. Every entrepreneur experiences setbacks,” Saad says of his experience starting his second company after graduating college. “It’s okay…
India has 785 districts and the government has ambitious plans for each. The government aims to have at least one startup registered in each district by 2025. Data shows that only 20-25 districts do not have a single startup. So, this target looks promising. This initiative is led by Department of Promotion of Indian Industry and Trade (DPIIT) and is expected to be a game changer for the economic landscape of India. Till March 31, 2023, there were over 100 districts which did not have any DPIIT-certified startups. Thanks to persistent efforts of various stakeholders, today the number has come…
Mobility incubator Detroit Smart Parking Lab has welcomed four new startups, officials announced Thursday.The startups have received more than $250,000 in grant funding from the Michigan Mobility Funding Platform and will use the funds to test and demonstrate autonomous and electric vehicle charging technologies over the next six months.Kevin Mull, Bedrock’s senior urban strategy and innovation director, said the four selected companies are a perfect fit for the incubator’s recently launched Autonomous Mobility Initiative, as they focus on areas such as smart parking technology, electric vehicle charging infrastructure and first- and last-mile logistics.”The four companies that applied best combined autonomous…