Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, is excited to announce the launch of the Techstars Impact Accelerator, its first program backing for-profit, mission-driven founders building technologies to solve our most pressing social and environmental problems.
Read MoreA powerhouse of innovation, this tiny country embodies the future of farming.
Read MoreAirports need to rethink some of their "no-brainer" infrastructure investments.
Read MoreAnyone who has driven between SFO and Silicon Valley has seen this ginormous hangar. What goes on in there? Well now we know! I think the jury is still out on massive dirigibles, but the fact that we are still having this discussion 80 years after the Hindenburg, is kinda cool.
Read More“We’re incredibly lucky to live here. It’s important to both protect and project what’s best about Austin — its collective curiosity, collaborative nature and creative ideas — out into the world,” Ray says. “It feels great to be able to be a part of it.”
Read MoreThe latest Lynxs project is a massive aircraft maintenance hangar at CVG, the Cincinatti Northern Kentucky International Airport. This hangar, to be operated by Miami-based FEAM Aircraft Maintenance, will accommodate the largest air freighters, including the Boeing 747-8, and multiple 767-300 aircraft, the new workhorse of the industry. What drives the need for such a hangar ? While DHL has operated a very large and active air cargo hub at CVG for years, there is a new player in town. Who? Why Amazon, of course. The face of eCommerce global logistics is evolving right before our eyes.
Read MoreAirlines, forwarders, and ground handlers have made great strides in providing specific services to address the requirements, but cannot be all things to all customers at all points on the planet.
Read MoreGoodbye “empowerment,” “capacity building,” and “silver bullet.”
Read MoreFinding your "Fin del Mundo" and surviving the "leap" is about expanding the geography of your mind and your heart, and pushing out those edges.
Read MoreIt’s a paradigm: "One size fits all". At once it’s a moniker of industrial age mass production marketed as flexibility, and also a harkening back to a past age when everything had one design and it was your job to fit it, rather than it fit you.
Read MoreGlobalization has brought us closer together, but to many, there’s the feeling that we are on top of one another, furiously competing in a zero-sum game with jobs exported, terrorism and drugs imported, and everyone’s traditional values being trampled. In this dystopian view, the smiling faces of Disney’s vision of the world’s children have been replaced by snarling zombies eyeing their next meal.
Read MoreIn the words of poet James Richardson: “Pessimists live in fear of their hope, optimists in fear of their fear.”
Read MoreRemember ol’ Ben Franklin and his wisdom? That was partially the influence of Quaker sensibilities in action
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