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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. The image translators work for the construct program. Neo: Do you always look at it encoded?

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

TechCrunch

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

So you end up with superlative amplification. &# Mobile penetration set to double next year reaching all time highs,&# “venture capital market set to implode next year – more than 70% of firms may disappear&# or “drug use in California growing at an alarming rate.&# We buy headlines. It becomes folklore.

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Gloria Lin thinks construction needs to ‘catch the wave of fintech’

TechCrunch

The challenges her father faced as a business owner in the construction industry always stayed in the back of her mind, so when Lin got the entrepreneurial itch, it was a natural move to help start a company that helped trade contractors better control their finances. “I It’s basically the slowest paying industry in the world,” Lin said.

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The New Business Preservation Act and the Tradition of U.S. Federal Government Support for Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Ian Hathaway

Senators led by Amy Klobuchar introduced the New Business Preservation Act to incentivize venture capital formation around the country. It avoids two well-known traps for government-sponsored venture programs by requiring that public funds are matched with private dollars and that capital is deployed by professional investors.

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The Constitution for Your New Fund: Strategy, Culture, Decision-Making, Budget, and Data

David Teten VC

If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process.

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Pulley raises $4.4M seed to shorten the construction permitting process ‘from months to days’

TechCrunch

If you’ve ever had to get a construction permit, you know that the process can be very painful and time-consuming. It’s a lofty claim, but if Pulley can well, pull that off, it could be revolutionary for the construction industry, where time is very much money. Commercial construction in the U.S. million toward that effort.