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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Votem is a revolutionary election management company that aims to give democracy back to the people. What is your top goal for Votem for 2020?

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow. Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector.

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Midas List 2020: Forerunner’s Eurie Kim (and Why Company Names Matter to Her)

Hunter Walker

Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. Every aspect of our lives are being disrupted with technology (specifically the mobile phone) and not one category will go untouched. Why is this such a great time for innovation in those areas?

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Intuit 2020 Research Report. New Communications Review. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Robert Harbauer, Laser Bonding Tech, Inc. ! #2- Photo Credit: Adam Greene. Thanks to Adam Greene, Cuddle Clones ! #3- 12- Connect young adults to economic mobility. This allowed me to once again leverage my technical skills to deliver innovative solutions to serve our community. So Bondic was born!

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