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

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Moreover, that figure doesn’t reflect millions more who have either left the labor force or remain underemployed, working part-time or in unskilled positions that don’t utilize their education and work experience. As The Economist put it, comparing U.S.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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Outplay gets $7.3M from Sequoia Capital India to help outbound sales team scale their campaigns

TechCrunch

The platform is meant to replace the process of cold-calling potential customers, which is time-consuming and difficult to scale, and enable salespeople to focus on the best prospects, helping them decide which channel to use and when to contact them. Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.

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New Year, New Job

Revolution

Jewelry Designer at Shinola Location: Detroit, MI Shinola was founded in 2011 with the goal to make quality products and to build them right here in America. Office & Recruiting Coordinator at STORD Location: Atlanta, GA STORD’s mission is to build the technology and network infrastructure that enables global distribution.

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9am.health launches with $3.7M to tackle virtual diabetes care

TechCrunch

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Four years later, Westermann moved to the U.S. 9am.health’s clinic was launched in August. through 2027. 9am.health diabetes kit.

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Vista Equity takes minority stake in Canada’s Vena with $242M investment

TechCrunch

The round follows $25 million in financing from CIBC Innovation Banking last September, and brings Vena’s total raised since its 2011 inception to over $363 million. Its customers hail from a variety of industries, including banking, SaaS, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance and higher education.