Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada is one of those people.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 4, 2020

Countries, communities and households have been turned upside down. . All ordering and communication is done through boosterfuels.com/driveup , so customers never have to leave their vehicles. . Clio is committing $1 million to help the global legal community navigate the challenges of COVID-19. Coinbase pumped $1.1M

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Board Effect

JULY 5, 2021

With philanthropic giving at an all-time high, it’s generating a new sense of freedom for nonprofits, allowing them to reimagine governance like never before. In what’s perhaps the largest distribution of donations by anyone in a single year, Scott and Jewett have donated $2.7 billion since July 2020.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

Governments and businesses across the world are consistently speaking about the need to adjust to a new normal. According to a report by the influencer marketing hub, 69% of brands expect that they will decrease the ad spend in 2020. Focus On Building A Community. Liquidity is now king. Get The Local SEO Right.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they trillion in 2020. In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. There's been a real sense of community built in the company that I think has been helpful in getting everybody through. Eric Ries : Celine, how about you?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

billion merger with 21 st -Century Fox, many experts feel Netflix will need a stronger distribution and acquisition arm in order to compete. Coinbase’s $1 billion valuation, combined with its large influence on the cryptocurrency community and healthy finances , puts it in a strong position to gobble up competitors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. And we've layered that with another crises of the exposure of continued racial injustice throughout our communities.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. As it turned out, patients liked the new format as it helped with unforeseen instances of transportation, missed work, and childcare.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

These two buses represented billions of dollars in capital that is interested in investing in the Texas region and we matched them up with local investors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders in each city that we visited. The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

They need to reduce volatility, be more bearish on what might happen, and also prioritize their obligations towards their employees, communities and themselves as people. (29:24) Everyone's 2020 plans have been blown to hell. SA : I think this is the kind of thing the government's supposed to be good at. ER : Of course.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

We sat down with Andrew Yang , current 2020 Presidential Candidate, who’s whole platform is based on reimagining the American economy with Universal Basic Income, to chat about the benefits of making this a national policy. But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

ER : So take me back in time to right before the pandemic, the start of 2020, where was Carbon Health at that point? I think January of 2020 was when we said, "Okay, now we are going to just take this and scale it as fast as humanly possible". I think it was considered the first community spread patient. And I felt horrible.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2020

She is a business psychologist, advisor and consultant to public and private companies as well as government and nonprofit institutions. So there’s a false sense of community and I think that’s also where it gets tricky. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

"Uber’s ascent to the largest rideshare company in the world was fueled by a recurring cycle in which it blatantly ignored state and local laws, became entrenched and widely used in a community, and then tried to use its largesse to change the laws it was breaking." Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) May 28, 2020. No current founders, pls.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. You asked, Reid Hoffman and Harry Stebbings answered. And I was like, “Well, okay, you’re super smart.

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