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Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits

Board Effect

The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most taxing years of our lifetimes. BoardEffect was founded in 2007 by a team of web developers that served nonprofits and educational institutions. BoardEffect Supports Good Governance Practices. The need to demonstrate good governance remains a high priority today.

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

Transformify

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. With a population of 11.4

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

2020: “Hold my beer.” Turns out 2020 was a new year and a new budget—and that budget had been severely cut back on venture because of the pandemic. They’re too busy awkwardly trying to explain their overdue search for a new “diverse” partner and why it took until 2020 to realize that a fund full of white people was a problem.

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Eric Ries’ Foreword to The Startup Community Way

Feld Thoughts

I met Eric in 2007 or so and he’s another example, like Tim Ferriss, of a “good friend and colleague” from a distance. At the beginning of 2020, I sent Eric a copy of the draft and asked him if he’d write the Foreword. Eric Ries Author The Lean Startup April 2020.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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The Real Story Of America Is About Small

VC Adventure

government. The result was 117,000 fewer companies in 2014 than there were in 2007. million businesses – between just February 2002 and April 2020. Small businesses are “the lifeblood of the U.S. economy: They create two-thirds of net new jobs and are the driving force behind U.S.

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Open Letter to a New Austinite

Austin Startup

Since at least 2007, Austin has been the fastest growing metro area in America. In many ways, Austin of 2020 isn’t all that dissimilar from the Austin of the 1970s that brought creative people like Willie Nelson here or the Austin of the late 1990s that got national attention for software companies like Trilogy.

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