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The New Technologies Keeping Real Estate Agents Safe

ReadWriteStart

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2017 Member Safety Survey, 44% of female agents and one in four male agents have experienced a situation in the past year that made them fear for their safety or the safety of their personal information. Here’s a look at six technologies agents can use to help keep them safe.

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

Before following in love with technology, George spent five years in politics, running campaigns and writing a book. FWD.US pulled the tech community into the discussion of how broken the U.S. government plan. A green card. He also co-founded Taxi Magic and formerly held a product manager position at Google.

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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. Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Scaling Solutions to Climate Change — A review of John Doerr’s “Speed and Scale”?

Reid Hoffman

At this point, it’s clear that we must take a blitzscaling approach to funding, developing, and scaling both the existing technologies and new innovations that will allow us to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert looming planetary disaster. government’s climate-related R&D funding from $7.8

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

For example, by using high-res EEG headsets and eye trackers on Polish and Dutch IKEA customers, researchers learned about consumer reactions to green business strategies, which helped identify which business models customers were likely to accept, never accept, or accept in a few years. These aren’t hypothetical concerns. Conclusion.

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

Moat, the biggest exit out of the bunch, was sourced when I met Mike Walrath at a tech event. It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. Let’s start with my fundraising timeline.

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18 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Women Entrepreneurs

Hearpreneur

This is partly due to improvement in technology that has helped scale their online visibility and allow ease of collaboration. For example, women-owned businesses that sell to the largest customer on the planet – the US Federal Government – can use the 5% contracting goal as extra muscle. Photo Credit: Ketan Kapoor.