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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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New Study by MPOWER Financing Shows the Value of Investing in Immigrants

Dream It

MPOWER students hail from 120 countries and are considerably more geographically diverse than the general international student mix in the U.S. Ninety-three percent of MPOWER female borrowers reported that they had no alternate means of financing their degree, versus 79 percent of MPOWER male borrowers. and Canada.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. What if you added funds to the mix? Access to other investors. But maybe you could do it?

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

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated.

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Parthean cares about personal finance so you don’t have to

TechCrunch

First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. Today, Hezarkhani is the CEO and founder of Parthean , a personal finance monitoring and education app that just raised $1.1 Is success defined by saving someone money three months after using the service?

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Important Updates for Startups on the PPP and the CARES Act

Dream It

Apply through your company’s primary bank, or consider community banks and non-bank SBA-lenders for faster processing. Banks that have gone live include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, and many community banks, among others. UPDATE over $1,800,000,000 #PPPloan now processed by @SBAgov mostly all from community banks.

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