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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Too much of today’s economic growth comes from unsustainable models using limited resources.

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Americans are Better Off Without TikTok But Banning It is Bad Policy

This is going to be BIG.

Sure, we’ve come to understand how harmful the effects of social media can be on Americans—from its effects on self-esteem to how it isolates and divides us—and I’ll be the first one to admit that my Chef Reactions time on TikTok would be better spent reading a book, talking with my wife, playing with my daughter, or calling a family member.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. Aspen Tech Policy Hub.

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Understanding Singapore

Derek Sivers

This is the first chapter of my new Singapore 2014 book. So it’s always had a mix of Malay, Indian, and Chinese people, though the majority are Chinese. The chairman of the government’s Economic Development Board told his colleagues, “We are in the hospitality business.” Disneyland with a death penalty!