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BOSTON – The first-ever comprehensive plan to help people start and grow smaller businesses in Boston was announced Wednesday by Mayor Marty Walsh. With 40,000 small companies in the city, the small business plan will act as a guide to support services and resources for entrepreneurs as they get established.
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BOSTON – The Hub certainly isn't the only city with a neighborhood set aside for new, innovative startups dubbed an "innovation district," but Boston has quickly garnered a reputation as a leading promoter of such enclaves. The economic capital of New England is simply obsessed with the
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CAMBRIDGE – While Boston's colleges and universities are thought to provide engines for much of the city's urban and economic development, across the Charles River, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has, of course, backed up assertions of its impact with numbers. In an updated Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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Education is in desperate need of reform — and startups and nonprofits are leading the way. One organization that is tackling literacy development with an innovative solution is CommonLit. Founded by Michelle Brown after her experience teaching 7th grade English at a high-poverty school in rural Mississippi, the organization aims to
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BOSTON – The Hub edged out Silicon Valley as America's top location for digital innovation in a ranking of major U.S. metropolitan regions released Thursday, with researchers citing Boston's higher scores for livability and connectedness. "While the San Francisco Bay Area is the clear leader
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BOSTON – Boston and its environs boast world-class universities and a bustling innovation economy. People from all over the world travel to the Hub to study, but after graduating, many highly skilled and well-educated foreigners learn that they can't remain in the U.S. legally. This amounts to a
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BOSTON – How are jobs created? Finding answers to that question has been an economic and political priority for governments around the world, especially in the years since the Great Recession. Nurturing startups may be a critical component. Studies, such as a white paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research
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BOSTON – Both the private and public sectors in the Bay State are stepping up support of entrepreneurs through the University of Massachusetts-Boston. The Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence program at the school announced Thursday that it had added a second private-sector backer, Goodwin Procter, the Boston-based a law firm. Goodwin Procter'
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