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Did Facebook and Twitter Make Us Better or Worse in 2016?

This is going to be BIG.

Yesterday, I got caught up in letting my frustration over the election boil over onto Twitter, and it's definitely not the first time. Other people can raise money for cancer and poverty, but unlocking mass human potential through discourse is a unique opportunity for social media problems to take more seriously.

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Budding entrepreneurs receive a head start with startup education scholarships

NZ Entrepreneur

A new batch of enterprising New Zealanders are being given the opportunity to fast track their ventures from idea through to startup, thanks to an online education initiative backed by Callaghan Innovation and entrepreneur education platform Startup NZ. Dr Jenny Douché, Callaghan Innovation. Adam Townsend, Bike Matrix.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

Both Sides of the Table

Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose. He told me about how he grew up in the projects in NYC with a single mom and even though he had done extraordinary well in school and thus had a great education – those were still his roots.

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Thinking About the Next Chief Digital Officer of New York City

This is going to be BIG.

Sterne is tasked with helping to make NYC.gov more user-friendly, ensuring that agencies integrate social media opportunities and serving as an advocate for the digital media industry in New York City.". She''s from the NYC area (Bayonne, NJ) and she went to Cornell--the school at the heart of NYC''s tech education expansion.

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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

Both Sides of the Table

So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. We did a full-court press led by Steven because once we decided this was the team we wanted to work with and this opportunity mapped to our belief system that content + tech will build a generation of great Internet companies. Plus physical. Parents & kids.

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Investing In Distressed Communities. Opportunity Zones

Smart Hustle Magazine

Ramon Ray got a chance to talk with Scott Turner, the Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, which is quite a mouthful, so you can refer to it as WHORC. Opportunity Zones and What They Are. They often have a high crime rate and lack of quality education, as well.

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Maximum Impact

This is going to be BIG.

What I definitely don't want to do is to do another startup--I think I'm much better at helping other entrepreneurs and being generally "entrepreneurial" than actually running a company. These are great opportunities to work with early stage companies and help get them off the ground. See recruiting. All of the above?

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