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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.)

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Capacity Building Grants for Nonprofits in 2022

Board Effect

Yet, philanthropists and foundations traditionally have been less likely to fund these activities, preferring to fund specific programs or projects, and capacity building grants could make a viable difference. The following areas will give you some good places to start: Governance. Capacity Building Grants: Chicago. SVP Chicago.

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Top 15 ESG Startups to Watch in 2024

The Startup Magazine

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts have been developing since the advocation of equal rights by the working men parties in the 1830s, and pollution control in the mid-1850s — when Chicago pragmatically built the first US sewage system to improve water supply. A business that still holds fundamental value today.

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Intro to Blockchain: Why You Can’t Miss Out

The Startup Magazine

Fintank , the Chicago-based Fintech facilitator, recently hosted the Fintank Blockchain Summit in Chicago. The oversold event was a comprehensive program of over 35 speakers and 300 participants exploring the future of blockchain. The blockchain phenomenon has become an obsession to the Fintech community. Startup Opportunities.

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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

She has been named Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence (2016), the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year award (2015), the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year award (2014), and Enterprising Women’s Enterprising Woman of the Year award (2013).

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National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up

Steve Blank

passed the CHIPS and Science Act , one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for semiconductors. Attempts to bridge this Valley of Death often find technology companies relying on Government capital. Last month the U.S.

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Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush

Steve Blank

atomic bomb program and laid the groundwork that made the Manhattan Project possible. physicists who feared that the Nazis would have an atomic bomb led to passionate advocacy before the government became involved. industrial capacity and manpower to the atomic bomb program as the No. There was no government funding.

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