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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. The Startup Visa movement is aimed at a pain point that is near and dear to my heart.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Hitpoint Studios Whether a client is looking to launch a new product or solve a technical challenge, HitPoint will deliver projects on time and on budget – through creative design, excellent engineering, and thoughtful use of new technologies.

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Innovation for More Inclusive Urban Spaces: the Case of MiFriendly Cities

Impact Hub

The region also faces many social challenges – in areas such as housing and healthcare – they wanted to meet these challenges by nurturing and funding creative grassroots projects, which are aimed at improving the quality of life for everyone. – MiFriendly Cities. Highlights from the wrap up .

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The New Business Preservation Act and the Tradition of U.S. Federal Government Support for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Ian Hathaway

Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career. As Nicholas describes it in the book: “This was a government-funded platform designed to encourage creative technological development through the supply of seed money.”

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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda

TechCrunch

“We are convinced that the contribution of these type of companies, especially the scale-ups, is super significant to the prosperity and to the economic growth of the country. And on the science side I also believe there is a lot of strong universities and labs in Spain which are also under the radar.

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Investment in Small Impact-Driven Businesses as a Key to Recovery

Impact Hub

The goal of the New Economy Booster accelerator program was to support the regrowth of the Nigerian and Ghanaian economies by supporting impact-driven ventures and businesses in the key areas of healthcare, education, agriculture, trade, culture and creativity, and tourism.

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America Needs More Techno-Optimism

Andreessen Horowitz

And so it sort of harnesses the creativity of, you know, thousands of years of human authors and artists and then sort of, derives, you know, new kinds of answers or new kinds of images or whatever. Nobody yet has bid on that idea when I pitched it. Economic growth is a great starting point.

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