Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Witness the recent backlash against Facebook and Twitter for the non-transparent use of customer data, and for enabling foreign election interference. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 1, 2017

Another classic maneuver is to push the company to elect an ‘independent’ director with whom investors have significant ties and influence. Electing a Truly Independent Director was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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David Cohen

APRIL 21, 2020

Conversation: Making Elections Resilient Against Pandemics. COVID-19 is impacting everything — even elections. Included were a former Director at the NSA, a County Clerk in Utah, a State Election Director in Oregon, and the first woman state treasurer and a former nominee for Governor in Massachusetts.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

There will be plenty of post-mortems from this highly unusual election season. As a technologist, we should face up to fact we did not do well in this election cycle Neither campaign really talked about science and tech futures and.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

“Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, influenced the election in any way — is a pretty crazy idea.” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2016. What may sound less crazy now is this: The 2024 US election cycle could possibly be the first authentic AI election. Donald Trump and Gov. —- Keep Thinking, Steve.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2020

Even with elective procedures, like cosmetic surgery, there are endless fresh opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop novel business ideas for medical products, solutions, and services. Startups are thriving in the medical sector, given the advances in medical treatments and technology.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In 20 years we will look back at the first few elections of the global Internet age the way we remember the smoky backrooms of elections past. As in I can’t believe we actually did things like that once.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. If you can’t see the Election Watch 2-minute video click here. If you can’t see the Election Watch video of the team presenting click here. If you can’t see the Election Watch slides click here. What’s Next for These Teams?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

And we’ve pulled out our hair trying to explain how the FBI Director could have decided to weigh-in / non-weigh-in to an election 11 days before voting with what turned out to be a whole lot of nothing but nonetheless likely put a thumb on the election scales. We also rightly have deep anxiety about the election results on Tuesday.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

spent $ 124 million in lobbying and campaign contributions in the 2020 election with 333 registered lobbyists. If an elected official’s major donor is organization x, you’re not going to be able to convince them with a cogent argument. How powerful are each of the players? Follow the money by using opensecrets.org.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I think the trigger for this was the election of Donald Trump as President of the US in late 2016. I think it took something as horrible as the election of such an awful human being to shock the US into deciding that we could not allow this behavior any more. He is the epitome of white male dominance.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! Votem promises to make voting more accessible, to restore trust in elections, and to serve election management bodies and their constituents. Votem is based in Cleveland. Why Cleveland?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Witness the recent backlash against Facebook and Twitter for the non-transparent use of customer data, and for enabling foreign election interference. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 30, 2020

During the pandemic, the latest perk for local and national tech companies is a paid holiday on election day. The post OJO Labs and Sana Benefits and Other Austin Tech Companies Declare Election Day a Company Holiday appeared first on SiliconHills.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 10, 2021

I made the mistake of trying to build a ranked-choice voting election model for the NYC Mayoral Race this weekend. electability”, is what he has going for him—but should either Wiley or Moreles show momentum and viability, his supporters might be willing to get on board. To quote Facebook, “It’s complicated.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

On Tuesday Los Angeles will elect a new mayor. In a citywide election every vote really DOES matter. This isn’t a presidential election where our vote is neutered. This is a citywide election where every vote counts. LA needs Garcetti. He would be the first tech mayor of our city. Why does it matter? So please vote.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

And that brings me to the US election. By now most people acknowledge that social media helped play a role in candidate Obama’s 2008 election campaign. I was recently contacted by an open, Twitter-based jobs company, TweetMyJobs to participate in an online, open discussion about jobs in America and the election.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Boulder has local elections every odd year. That means we are having a local election this year , with mail-in balloting starting on 10/16/17 and ending on 11/7/17. As a result, a very small number of votes can have a big impact on the election results. This is especially important for the city council election.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The 2008 US presidential elections will go down in history as the “social media election” – On election day that year, there were 1.8 million tweets about the presidency. But this year, in 2012, social media will be even more pervasive. Today there are 1.8

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

With only two months left of this year, the campaigns for the 2020 Presidential elections in the United States are in full swing and the primary debates are already having an impact on the business scenery. During his election campaign President Trump promised to put “ America first ”. Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2021

Putting aside the archaic gendering of the law, this one sentence written into New York State’s Election Law that defines the residency requirements of candidates is one of the laziest and most ridiculous pieces of text I’ve ever seen. But I had assumed it was election fraud because of the way Adams and his team reacted to the story.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Donald Trump was elected as the new president of the United States, and this also caused the price of the dollar to plunge. Election Results. election dominates the news, financial markets are suffering from a degree of uncertainty which will be set to continue with the Trump victory. As the U.S.

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Board Effect

APRIL 12, 2023

Ex officio members of the board are not necessarily elected or appointed; rather, they agree to serve in a position because the organization needs their expertise or influence in that position. When a new president is elected or appointed, the past board president loses ex officio status on all committees when the term of office ends.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 10, 2019

The post Infinitum Electic Gets $1.8 And the Austin-based startup announced Thursday that it has closed a $1.8 million Series A round of financing, led by Cottonwood Technology Fund, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since launching three years ago, Infinitum Electric has raised a total of $2.7 million in funding. The company plans […].

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Finally, PACs are political committees that raise money for electing or defeating candidates. PACs can give up to $5,000 to a candidate every election and up to $15,000 to national political parties.? . Regardless of whether you’re leading a 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4) vs. 501(c)(6), a board management system by?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 13, 2017

I’m hoping to have a thoughtful and open conversation about a lot of the issues that are coming up around our local election. Our local election, like our recent national election, has had some extreme animus creep into it. If you are interested, please join us.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

At this point, especially in states like Colorado where it appears the election will be close, action other than a vote for Clinton is essentially supporting Trump. I’ve been deeply upset about many things during this election. I’ve been deeply upset about many things during this election. ” (Suster). ” (Suster).

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Back in January I bought tickets to go see Hamilton on Broadway, purposefully the Friday before the Presidential election. I hoped we would be on the verge of electing our first female president. on the eve of this historical election… “I have never agreed with Jefferson once. Hamilton, “The Election of 1800”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2018

This year, blockchain was even used in to power presidential elections for the very first time in Sierra Leone. Finance is perhaps one of the sectors that will eventually go all in on the blockchain.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

When used well in election campaigns branding it says more than a candidates name. Let’s take a closer look at political branding examples and how design has helped candidates succeed in recent elections. win her election. Election branding isn’t limited to candidate logos. How good design helped ¡Ocasio!

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Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Second is the duty of loyalty… …Loyalty to the corporate person, not to the shareholders who elected the board member.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Elections Project , more than 90 million Americans requested absentee ballots this year, and as of October 30th, more than 55 million of them have already been returned. We know there will continue to be long lines at polling places, especially on Election Day. The electorate’s enthusiasm extends to mail-in voting as well.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

President-Elect Trump has a lot of work ahead of him to help women entrepreneurs thrive.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 12, 2013

When you elect someone to vote a specific way on a specific issue what you’re doing is closing down creativity, opportunity, and solutions. Let’s elect people who have actually created things. So my simple point is, let’s start electing the smartest people in the room. We’ve got it wrong.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

November 13, 2016: For those of you who went to church on the Sunday I’m writing this after the Election, you probably heard this morning a… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Any candidate on the ballot for a US-based election is eligible (or set a min threshold to start of Federal election). You know this already kinda happens in elections regarding the decision for a candidate to take Federal matching funds or not ? Two: Show the Stick. What does a candidate need to do to access these tools?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2017

I strongly encourage everyone to do what they can to help elect him as Colorado’s next Attorney General, including donating your time and money to his campaign. If we fail to elect officials like Phil who will stand up for our environment, future generations will ask us how we stood by and failed to act.

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