Category: Featured Stories (Page 5 of 43)

2020 Startup Law Initiative at Berkeley Law

The Startup Law Initiative at Berkeley Law (SLI), an initiative of the University of California, offers free incorporation services to entrepreneurs.

SLI’s services allow founders to overcome costly barriers to conducting business. Founders work with Berkeley Law students and top Bay Area law firms that specialize in corporate law and emerging markets.

Other services include stock purchase agreements, indemnification agreements, and corporate bylaws. We are currently accepting applications for entrepreneurs looking to incorporate their businesses this fall. Read More...

Is Implanting Microchips in Employees a Good Idea?

Companies are beginning to implant microchips in employees to improve productivity, security, and healthcare. No, this is not a scene out of a dystopian sci-fi film, it’s happening right now. The chips are typically the size of a grain of rice and are inserted under the skin in a relatively painless process.

Three Square Market, a US company, implanted RFID chips in the hands of more than half its 80 employees. The majority were excited to try out the new technology once the risks and rewards were clearly explained to them. The chips enable them to do things like open doors, log onto their computers, and purchase snacks from company vending machines with a wave of their hands. In the future, we’ll see chips that have advanced features, like GPS tracking, voice activation, and vital sign monitoring. Read More...

Join Startup Research 2020

Researchers from the University of California (Irvine), Notre Dame University, and the University of Colorado Boulder are looking for startup teams for a research study with the goal to understand factors that lead to effective, high-performing teams. Participation in this study is a unique opportunity for you and your team to gain invaluable and actionable insights into your team’s performance and how to improve it. At the same time, your participation will help to improve the lives of people who are living and working through both current and potential future pandemics.

The study should only take 3-4 hours of your time over a ten-week period. You will receive up to $350 in Amazon gift cards for your efforts (see additional information and criteria below). Furthermore, they will provide you (and only you) with your data and your results to help you work more effectively.

This study has been approved by the university human subjects review board. They will guarantee that all your data will be kept confidential, and identified in the analyses only by a random identification code. Read More...

Lawnboy Ventures – Restoring a Sense of Smell

Scott Moorehead suffered a traumatic brain injury when fell in the driveway, while teaching his 6-year-old son how to skateboard. He recovered from the internal bleeding and concussion but never regained his smell. The connection between the olfactory nerves in his nose and his brain had been severed.

“Until you can’t smell at all you have no idea how emotional the experience can be,” said Moorehead, who fell into a deep depression. “You start to think about these really awful things, like, someday my daughter is going to get married and I’m going to walk her down the aisle and I’m going to give her a big hug, and I’m going to have no idea what she smelled like.” Read More...