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Startup Launches A New Tool to Protect Vulnerable Adults

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Under the leadership of Nancy Meyers, a Pennsylvania attorney, the team at Advocord developed a mobile responsive, web-based software platform that is a compliance tool that effectively protects those who have a fiduciary/legal obligation to act on the behalf of another. since 2008.

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Anchor Institutions’ Contributions to Building Inclusive Small Business Ecosystems

Forward Cities

Communities around the country are increasingly recognizing the transformative economic and community-building power of Anchor Institutions (Anchors) — those sizable entities with physical, cultural and economic ties to a community such as universities, hospitals, local government, and large corporations. What is an Anchor?

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Kevin Learned: Entrepreneur, Teacher, Angel

Angel Capital Association

Partnering with Gary Mahn, who went on to become the owner of Fishers Technology, they formed Learned-Mahn Software, arguably Idaho’s first software company ,which developed and marketed personal computer software to the banking and hospital industries. Eventually, after Learned’s departure, the company was sold to National Data Corp.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics.

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

TechCrunch

Travel and hospitality seem most fragile and unpredictable due to COVID-19. These challenges are still, to an extent, worries to our portfolio companies, as the economic development is still uncertain. What are the opportunities startups may be able to tap into during these unprecedented times?