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Calling Financial Innovators

VC Adventure

The Kauffman Foundation published an article last week that my New Builders co-author, Elizabeth MacBride, and I wrote about the inspiration for writing the book and – related – about how our systems of finance and support need to evolve to meet the needs of today’s entrepreneurs. She had $37 in food stamps to her name.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Per the same Randstad article, international tech companies and investors consider Canada as a place to do business. tests new technology on a province-wide scale for industry and government. Per an Industry West Magazine article , the tech sector in the province accounts for 2.5% Inno Tech Alberta Inc. In 2016, 16.4%

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. 99% of the articles about the company were positive. And that is what we’ll do.”

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Understanding 501(c)(4) Social Welfare Organizations

Board Effect

While all 501(c) organizations are tax-exempt, the federal government established various IRS subcodes to designate the specific type of work a nonprofit does. Social welfare organizations are classified as 501(c)(4) organizations because their primary purpose is to provide social benefits to communities rather than charity.

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The Real Story Of America Is About Small

VC Adventure

Below is an article I co-authored with Elizabeth MacBride of Times of Entrepreneurship (it was cross posted there on the ToE site yesterday). Why is America so divided? In research for our upcoming book, we found that small business owners often inhabit the shrinking middle ground of politics in their communities. government.

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Startup Communities is Shipping

Feld Thoughts

Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City is officially shipping. Vivek Wadha wrote a wonderful article in the Washington Post on Monday that highlights the Boulder Thesis. Jerry Colonna also wrote an awesome post riffing off of Startup Communities titled The Sarajevo Effect.

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Nonprofit Organizations: How They Work and What They Do

Board Effect

Nonprofit organizations exist in most communities and governments, businesses, and citizens support them in various ways for the overall benefit of the communities they serve. State governments have the primary responsibility for governing and regulating nonprofit organizations.