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Pitching America’s mayors

Austin Startup

Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT. The video data, combined with the phone’s other sensor capabilities, helps RoadBotics to precisely calculate roadway metrics.

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

entrepreMusings

Small businesses are top-of-mind for lawmakers nationwide, but too often their needs are more a matter of conjecture rather than actual evidence,” says Sander Daniels, co-founder of Thumbtack.com. ” Thumbtack.com and the Kauffman Foundation evaluated states and cities against one another along more than a dozen metrics.