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Top 15 ESG Startups to Watch in 2024

The Startup Magazine

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts have been developing since the advocation of equal rights by the working men parties in the 1830s, and pollution control in the mid-1850s — when Chicago pragmatically built the first US sewage system to improve water supply.

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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. Increased connectivity.

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What Are the Risks of Using Personal Email for Board Business?

Board Effect

By gathering information from the internet, spear phishers tailor an email to a specific individual using their name and other information they found out about you that you may have posted on a social media account or somewhere else on the web. In the context of governance, board directors and executives are the new targets of choice.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Steve Blank

I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia. It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology. The Goldwater/Nichols Act governs the requirements processes for the services.

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“Regardless of who is in the White House, we have work to do from the bottom up and from the outside in” – Five Questions With Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America

Hunter Walker

I had heard of Code for America but wasn’t exactly sure what they did or how they did it. But Jen has been one of the leaders over this past decade of finding ways to marry technology and government. Donate , come work at Code for America , work in government , or join your local Code for America Brigade !

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National Industrial Policy – Private Capital and The America’s Frontier Fund Steps Up

Steve Blank

passed the CHIPS and Science Act , one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for semiconductors. Attempts to bridge this Valley of Death often find technology companies relying on Government capital. Last month the U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52)