All posts by Vas Taras

InnoVits Business Accelerator

ANY STARTUP FOUNDERS/MANAGERS HERE?       One of X-Culture’s partners, an Italian business accelerator/incubator Innovits runs an annual idea competition with the purpose of selecting and nurturing the highest potential projects. They have two programs: Gymnasium Academy   The acceleration program is called Gymnasium lasts about 5 months. Meetings are scheduled every 2 weeks with…

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EXPERIMENTS WITH BOOSTING RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY This summer, we have tested three different ways of boosting research productivity. In June, right before the AIB conference, we ran a 4+3 Day Research Xackathon: https://x-culture.org/2018-research-conference/. It was a full-flagged Silicon-Valley-style hackathon, where we basically locked ourselves in a lab on a university campus (UWLX) for several days and did non-stop…

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2018 Nashville, TN, USA

    X-Culture / Academy of International Business Student Symposium    icon-calendar  Dates: November 1-3, 2018.  icon-location-arrow  Location: Nashville, TN Hosted by Belmont University icon-group  Number of participants: Limited to 50 students. The selection process is competitive. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrated excellence in past X-culture participation.  

The Payment Challenge

Have you tried paying to or receiving money from 40+ countries?  X-Culture receives payments from about 40 countries: universities paying for participating in the project; students registering for the X-Culture Symposium. Sometimes students don’t get a visa to attend the symposium, so we must issue a refund. Here is what I have learned so far: