article thumbnail

Governor Murphy Announces Proposed Fintech Accelerator in Hoboken

American Entrepreneurship

Plug and Play’s network consists of 50,000 startups, over 500 leading corporations, and hundreds of venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. NJ FAST will create new and exciting business ventures for entrepreneurs in Hudson County, New Jersey, and the region.

article thumbnail

Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

TechCrunch

first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration. Shares of Switchback II Corporation are off more than 14% in morning trading today, appearing to sell off sharply in the wake of news that the blank-check company’s merger with scooter company Bird has been approved by shareholders.

article thumbnail

Startup cynicism and Substack, or Clubhouse, or Miami, or …

TechCrunch

Some of those bets involved actual venture capital dollars. And Miami is a bet that you can take a top global city without a massive startup ecosystem and agglomerate the talent necessary to compete with San Francisco, New York and Boston. There were millions of bets made in the tech industry last year.