Richmond Law is proud to announce some new faculty appointments and promotions for 2016-2017.
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The first modern U.S. bike share programs rolled out in Denver, Washington, D.C., and the Twin Cities about five years ago as a way to ease congestion, cut pollution and give residents and tourists a fun and healthy way to get around.
With their sturdy bikes and docking stations, the systems have spread quickly since then: More than 32,000 bikes are now in use in sharing programs in about 80 U.S. cities, including smaller cities such asBirmingham, Alabama, and Fargo, North Dakota. Another 100 cities are studying, planning or constructing their own bike share programs, including Baltimore, where a system is set to open in October.
For all the handwringing over corporate influence and overcrowding and prohibitive expenses, the annual South by Southwest festival still draws thousands of attendees to the state capital each year. This year’s conference, which wrapped up on Sunday, was dotted with more than a few Dallas-area healthcare entrepreneurs who fled south for a few days in the hopes of getting word out about their companies to folks who would’ve never heard it otherwise.
Los Angeles accelerators Amplify.LA and MuckerLab, as well as Techstars of Boulder, Colo., which runs a local healthcare accelerator on behalf of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, have been ranked as top accelerators by an academic study.
A project created to rank startup accelerators, has put three, Southern California startup accelerators among the top programs in the U.S. for startup accelerators, according to results released at SXSW over the weekend.
A new biotech laboratory, another lofty national ranking for an accelerator, and changes to a coding school’s expansion plans are among these recent headlines from Wisconsin’s innovation community:
—Milwaukee-based Wantable raised more than $2 million from investors, according to a regulatory filing. The startup ships curated boxes containing clothing, makeup, accessories, and other items to a mostly young, female customer base. The new financing brings the total amount Wantable has raised to more than $4.3 million.