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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

Revolution Chairman & CEO, Steve Case and Mitch Landrieu The conversation: A fireside chat with White House Infrastructure Coordinator and former Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu The takeaways: Creating an environment where startups thrive pays off in ways that courting existing corporations doesn’t. Infrastructure touches everything.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Tara Sabre Collier.

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Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian is speaking at TechCrunch City Spotlight: Pittsburgh

TechCrunch

Among those mentioned was a widening opportunity gap and rising economic inequality — topics that are also fundamentally shaping startups in Silicon Valley, Pittsburgh and elsewhere. ” Calling all Yinzers, TechCrunch is (virtually) headed to Pittsburgh!

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Forge North Coalition Announces First Close of Fund to Invest in Black, Brown and Women Entrepreneurs in Minnesota

American Entrepreneurship

. ### About gener8tor gener8tor ’s turnkey platform for the creative economy connects startup founders, investors, corporations, universities, job seekers, musicians and artists. Paul startup ecosystem. For more information, visit gener8tor.com. It is a coalition of 100+ partners advancing the Minneapolis-Saint.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

Moreover, that figure doesn’t reflect millions more who have either left the labor force or remain underemployed, working part-time or in unskilled positions that don’t utilize their education and work experience. The Startup Visa movement is aimed at a pain point that is near and dear to my heart. Intellectual Property.

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Hustle Fund wants to help spawn a new generation of angel investors

TechCrunch

We believe that in order to increase diversity in the startup ecosystem, one thing that we must do is increase diversity — whether it be in regard to gender, race or geography — amongst angel investors,” said Hustle Fund co-founder and general partner Elizabeth Yin. To more people like Colorado-based Penn. “

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem is disproportionately male, how can we improve the number of women-led startups in our region? Increasing the diversity in our start-up ecosystem also requires a strategic focus. We celebrate our big successes, and rally together with creative solutions when challenged.