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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. The government supports small business owners with popular incentive programs and offers many training and networking programs. Government is a large employer—given the state’s proximity to Washington, D.C.—and

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. Our website.

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How Non-Partisan Business Leaders Can Help Fix America

David Teten

The most impactful step you can take to help America more accurately reflect our citizens’ (and your company’s) political goals is to increase voting rates. That’s bad for America, and it’s bad for business. Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America. A) Vote and complete the census. For further reading: .

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How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

This afternoon in Boulder I’ll be on a panel as part of the White House Startup America Roundtable. Over the past few years, I’ve spent some time thinking about how the government can help entrepreneurship. More recently, I’ve focused my energy on the Startup Visa movement and the Startup America Partnership.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you want to make America functional again ? Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our initial users– major advocacy organizations such as environmental groups–promote majoritarian-supported policies. Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service.

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