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Apply for Singularity's Global Solutions Program

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The Global Solutions Program (GSP) is a 9-week immersive, residential experience at our campus at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. GSP finds the absolute best minds on the planet and empowers them to leverage exponential technology and entrepreneurial tools to develop moonshot innovations addressing humanity’s grand challenges

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I’m a Latina tech founder and you can be too

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I’m a Latina tech founder and you can be too

by: Alana Matos, from Parallel18 Gen2

Me: “I’m not applying to jobs after graduation. I’m doing a startup.”

My mom: “A what?”

The day I told my uber traditional Puerto Rican parents that their Harvard educated daughter was not pursuing any sort of traditional career, I knew their hearts sank. This was not what they had envisioned when I told them I wanted to go to graduate school.

UPR Mayagüez hosting entrepreneurship conference

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To promote entrepreneurship in the university community, the student association Idea Platform of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez is hosting, for the second year in a row, Elicit-Innovation: Mega evento de innovación y emprendimiento: http://www.elicitinnovation.com.

For more information visit: Idea Platform.

Promo video: https://youtu.be/ftvtjJgGbPs

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Silicon Valley Winter 2016 - Founder Institute

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The Founder Institute is the world’s premier startup bootcamp for talented entrepreneurs. Many leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used our program to transition from employee to entrepreneur, test their startup ideas, build a team, get their first customers, raise funding, and more. In addition, the Founder Institute is the only program of its kind that accepts entrepreneurs with day jobs and shares equity with all participants.

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Puerto Rican scientist and entrepreneur presents his company at The White House

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Biotech entrepreneur founds state-of-the-art laboratory in Puerto Rico (Ignacio “Nacho” Pino Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) After spending 10 years as a successful veterinarian, Ignacio “Nacho” Pino decided to dedicate himself to work that could bring state-of-the-art biotechnology research to his home of Puerto Rico. His company, CDI Laboratories, produces research-grade protein and antibody products that support scientific research on cancer, autoimmunity, and infectious diseases. Recently, CDI Labs was selected as part of a research consortium – including the University of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust – funded by the National Institutes of Health to perform research on cancer, autoimmunity, and infectious diseases.

Designers, architects and inventors wanted

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Startup Weekends Puerto Rico will host it first edition of 2015 from March 27-29, 2015 at the Puerto Rico Science, Tehcnology and Research Trust offices. The first event is dedicated to makers. For this event designers, engineers, architects, inverntors and dreams who want to develop a product in 54 hours are wanted.

 

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Disrupting the Way We Build Startups

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Grupo Guayacán is thrilled to share that we have been awarded a grant by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to launch I-Corps Puerto Rico, a customer discovery boot camp for entrepreneurs looking to build and develop scalable business models. We are partnering with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s VentureLab to launch a local version of the successful Startup Gauntlet, a program modeled after the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps). Georgia Tech’s VentureLab has successfully taught Startup Gauntlet to 28 cohorts, encompassing a total of 492 participants.

Grupo Guayacán Awarded Economic Development Administration Grant to Launch New I-Corps Puerto Rico Program in Partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology

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San Juan – The United States Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded Grupo Guayacán, Inc. (GGI) a $62,000 technical assistance grant to launch I-Corps Puerto Rico, a customer discovery boot camp for entrepreneurs looking to build and develop scalable business models. The funding will allow GGI to launch a local version of the successful Startup Gauntlet, a program offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), which is modeled after the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps).

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Enactus RUM among the best in the world

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The University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez Enactus Team placed third in the Enactus World Cup celebrated in China last week.

See their presentation below.

 

 

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