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5 1/2 Questions for Michael Crow

Michael Crow
President, Arizona State University

Dr. Michael M. Crow is an educator, knowledge enterprise architect, science and technology policy scholar and higher education leader. He became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University in July 2002 and has spearheaded ASU’s rapid and groundbreaking transformative evolution into one of the world’s

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Entrepreneurship

Dispelling the Myth of the Zuckerberg Entrepreneur

A recent blog post from the Kauffman Foundation puts it succinctly, when it tries to dispel the myth of the twenty-something tech wizard as the prototypical entrepreneur. Citing research, they write: In reality, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity belongs to the 55- to 64-year-old age group over the past

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Success Without College

Below is an ironic infographic that so nicely illustrates how some of our most iconic (and wealthiest) entrepreneurs never graduated college. This is an attractive meme based largely on casual evidence. Apparently this evidence is enough to power the belief, or implication, that college is irrelevant or even detrimental to

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Accelerators

It’s Official: Phoenix is the New Silicon Valley

Arizona No. 1 for startups, Kauffman study finds Arizona had the highest entrepreneurial activity rate of any state last year, according to new research from the Kauffman Foundation. – Phoenix Business Journal Definitely worth of a major shout-out When I arrived in Arizona 4 years ago to help them build

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