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Governor Murphy Announces Proposed Fintech Accelerator in Hoboken

American Entrepreneurship

NJ FAST will allow for new entrepreneurs to bring their world-class ideas to New Jersey, increasing our state’s already impressive talent pool, all while capitalizing on the resources and expertise of our partners at Stevens Institute of Technology. Plug and Play invests in over 250 companies a year.

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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.

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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.