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Put Your App On the Blockchain — Or Build Something Brand New — At Blockstack's DappHack

Your Ideas Are Terrible has partnered with Blockstack to host #DappHack Sharpen your skill set or learn blockchain stack development without having to start from scratch. Join fellow developers to build a dapp — a distributed app — in a twenty-four-hour deep dive into the blockchain industry's most cutting-edge developer

ReciproCare Takes Home $10K Startup Runway Prize For Its Common App For Caregivers

ReciproCare Takes Home $10K Startup Runway Prize For Its Common App For Caregivers

Wednesday night, 10 women and minority-led startups competed for $10,000 of equity-free cash at Startup Runway, a non-profit-driven competition that is the largest-prize pitch competition of its kind. The winner was a health tech platform that focuses on a large, untapped industry — the aging population. Reciprocare, founded by a

PrecisionHawk

How Comcast-Backed Commercial Drone Platform PrecisionHawk Surveyed the Industry to Take Flight

Commercial drone usage has expanded dramatically in the last decade — Business Insider predicts consumer drone shipments to hit 29 million in 2021, a compound annual growth rate of over 31 percent. Commercial drone technology platform PrecisionHawk has seen its own product growth increase thanks to new regulations, as it positions

Treehab

Treehab Facilitates Medical Marijuana Patient-Doctor Connection in Emerging Cannabis Markets

Over 250 million suffer from ailments where medical cannabis products have proven to help alleviate pain or suffering. A large portion of this audience lives in emerging markets — states where medical cannabis has only been legalized in the last few years. Georgia is one such state, legalizing the use of

Siemens Selects Georgia Tech to Look for Ideas to Commercialize In FutureMakers Challenge

Siemens Selects Georgia Tech to Look for Ideas to Commercialize In FutureMakers Challenge

Siemens has selected Georgia Tech as one of six universities nationwide to host their on-campus FutureMakers Challenge to bolster the company’s innovation pipeline and empower the nation’s top talent. Georgia Tech was selected based on its technical strengths, match to Siemens’ projects and history of collaboration. The FutureMakers

This Topic-Specific Social App Helps Brands Find Exactly the Right Audience

This Topic-Specific Social App Helps Brands Find Exactly the Right Audience

Sporting events can get heated — every so often a referee will make a call that sets the stadium on fire as fans loudly complain. John York was amidst that situation; he had jumped on Facebook to unload his own opinions, only to see his thoughts get lost in the algorithm.

Hand Washing

With Backing from SC Johnson, This Startup Gamifies Hand Hygiene to Slow Disease Spread

On average, healthcare providers clean their hands less than half of the times they should, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This can contribute to the spread of the healthcare-associated infections that affect 1 in 25 hospital patients on any given day. "We are ultimately solving