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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. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Shares of the SPAC were off as far as 20% before recovering. News broke in May that Bird was looking at a SPAC-led debut on the public markets.

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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. The cynicism of immediate perfection is one of the strange dynamics of startups in 2020.