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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

billion people use a mobile phone today, equating to 66.6% By providing a contactless mobile payment interface, millions of unbanked customers can accept payments using NFC technology. In 2020, the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed in the world was 44 zettabytes (ZB) – the equivalent of 44 trillion gigabytes.

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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. To attract interest the Defense Department is handing out unprecedented numbers of small contracts and in 2020 seeded 1,635 firms with more than $1.5 billion in early funding. Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies.

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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. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. What are the most common skills in each category?

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Salon H Monday, March 12 How Smart Venture Money Isn’t Smart But You Can Be with Mass Challenge Texas Director Mike Millard Research shows most venture funds under perform relevant public market indicies, yet the diversification strategies practiced in the public markets can enhance the risk-adjusted returns for investors in early stage companies.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Intuit 2020 Research Report. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. government policy. Intuit 2020 Trends Report.

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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.