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uSamp: 65 Percent of Companies Allow Working Remotely

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Encino -based uSamp , which provides technology to enable market research and survey panels, has tapped into its stable of survey respondents to figure out how many companies now allow employees to work remotely. Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer put the company''s new policy in place in February, igniting a firestorm of controversy.

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Max Q: How to build a Starship

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This week, the company announced a partnership with Space Adventures, the same firm that has arranged paid trips to the Space Station for private citizens aboard Soyuz capsules. Japan is going to get and return a soil sample from a Mars moon. Founder and CEO Mina Mitry tells me why that’s the best choice for his company.

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Recruitment Goal In Obama Precision Med Study: 1M in 3 or 4 Years

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The Obama administration’s push to sign up one million Americans for a long-term health study will start in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Tucson, AZ, top health officials said today. The VA is running its own long-term study with nearly half a million participants so far.).

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Don’t Underrate The Value Of A Startup Plan Document

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There really is no excuse these days, with samples on the Internet, business-plan books in every bookstore, and dozens of apps to automate the process. There are no guarantees, but various studies have found that entrepreneurs who create a good plan generally double their chances of securing funding and building a successful business.

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Here Is When Your New Business Needs A Written Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

There really is no excuse these days, with samples on the Internet, business-plan books in every bookstore, and dozens of apps to automate the process. There are no guarantees, but various studies have found that entrepreneurs who create a good plan generally double their chances of securing funding and building a successful business.

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Organovo to Test Pre-Clinical Drugs on Bio-Printed Kidney Tissue

Xconomy

It’s been almost two years since Organovo (NYSE: ONVO ) created a new business—using its bio-printing technology to create 3-D samples of living human liver tissue for use in testing the toxicity of pre-clinical drug candidates. As Murphy put it recently, “We don’t think of ourselves as a bio-printing company any more.

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Scanwell Health launches smartphone tests for UTIs in partnership with Lemonaid Health

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Companies continue to refine digital diagnostic tools for in-home healthcare at a rapid clip. The company was founded by Stephen Chen, who literally grew up in the diagnostics testing business. The company first submitted its product to the Food and Drug Administration for approval in 2015. “I was born into the business.”

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