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NJEDA Names Inaugural New Jersey Innovation Fellows Cohort

American Entrepreneurship

in income replacement grants and mentorship to first-time entrepreneurs, creating 10 new businesses and helping fuel innovation in strategic sectors The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the inaugural cohort of the New Jersey Innovation Fellows (NJIF) program.

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African Startups Raising Investment to Further Drive Economic and Social Impact

Impact Hub

Uwana Energy provides affordable solar energy products to low-income Nigerian microentrepreneurs. Hinata Energy aims to provide affordable energy for a healthier cooking environment by offering biofuel-powered cookstoves. Electricity and gas supply. About 80 million Nigerians face daily blackouts. Financial activities.

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Why America Must Lead in AI Investment

Andreessen Horowitz

And if we can take, at least for the most part, a tech-agnostic approach as it relates to AI development and adoption, I think that that would be more helpful. We’ll be considering actual bills, we’ll be developing bills, and we’ll be voting on them. And we were able to personalize that argument state by state.

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Spanish scale-ups club together to shift the tech policy agenda

TechCrunch

“We are convinced that the contribution of these type of companies, especially the scale-ups, is super significant to the prosperity and to the economic growth of the country. And on the science side I also believe there is a lot of strong universities and labs in Spain which are also under the radar.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope is transforming workforce development in the United States by making modern Registered Apprenticeships scalable. Lenoss Medical Designed and developed the first and only biological solution to treat osteoporotic spinal fractures. Lenoss Medical Lenoss Medical Inc. 2021 Ez-Probate Inc. management.

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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

Andreessen Horowitz

We believe growth is progress – leading to vitality, expansion of life, increasing knowledge, higher well being. We agree with Paul Collier when he says, “Economic growth is not a cure-all, but lack of growth is a kill-all.” We believe everything good is downstream of growth. It serves us.

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America Needs More Techno-Optimism

Andreessen Horowitz

And so it sort of harnesses the creativity of, you know, thousands of years of human authors and artists and then sort of, derives, you know, new kinds of answers or new kinds of images or whatever. Tyler: So how much more green energy do we need to, in essence, fuel all of this AI, and where will it come from? Marc: Yeah. Marc: Yeah.

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