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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

government boasts more than 200,000 public datasets hosted through data.gov, divided among numerous lists and segmented into categories such as: Information on 173 million taxi rides in New York City. Weather data from the past 100 years. Mexican birth records. government procurement data. Real-Estate Listings.

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Bending Bootstrapping To The Needs Of Your Business

YoungUpstarts

It is also quite expensive to dispose of (one of many examples of the unforeseen costs people talk about in relation to opening a business) or you have to drive it, in several trips, to the dump in New Jersey. in New York City. ’ Rebecca Weible is the founder of Yo Yoga!

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Entrepreneur Creates a Technologically Savvy Daycare Model

Hearpreneur

In 2011, the company began franchising in an effort to expand beyond our New Jersey footprint. Since then, we have rebranded as Lightbridge Academy and grown the company to 17 child care franchises open throughout New Jersey employing over 450 and serving over 2,400 children.

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Airport Avatar Enters Brave New World Of Customer Service

YoungUpstarts

Travelers coming through the New York City area’s three airports — La Guardia, JFK, and Newark — might soon feel the need to double check that they aren’t walking through the set of a science fiction movie. Naturally, the first inclination will be for people to be concerned that these avatars will replace jobs done by humans.

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Parking Space or Small Business?

Up and Running

Charles pays the parking meter $36 dollars in quarters each morning to keep his car parked on a busy New York City street. He admits in the video that after a drive from his home in New Jersey, it takes him around 4 hours to set up. Here are a few facts about the business side of his story.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

But, as Murphy’s law dictates, when something can go wrong, it will and it happened that the temperature shot up into the 80s in New York City that day. The crowds did indeed gather and the media as well as the folks from the Guinness Book of World Records were all set to document the entire event. Who would have thought?

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

So at this point, one of the things we're most proud of is creating and providing multi-day family meal packs of meals that we're distributing through COVID right now, 100,000 meals a day in New York City at this point. That was our incredible team of operators and partnership team members in the New York and New Jersey region.