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Fundamentally altering antitrust laws will harm US startups and slow the economy

TechCrunch

The New Technology Policy Battlegrounds Are Getting Closer To Home. The United States is the land of opportunity, where anyone with an idea can bring it to market. This philosophy has fueled America’s growth and prosperity and made the U.S. Without attractive investment opportunities, jobs will be lost or go overseas.

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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

TechCrunch

MSMEs are the engine of economies in Africa, and powering existing small businesses and encouraging the formation of new MSMEs helps create the type of economic growth and social benefit that carries over to households by creating more opportunity and more jobs,” the company’s CEO and co-founder Manoj Sinha, told TechCrunch.

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What the Pact for Impact Summit can Teach us about Measuring Success

Impact Hub

We promote the interoperability of frameworks (being able to transfer seamlessly from one system to another) such as IRIS, SROI and several others; . Lean data approaches to make the information available and transparent at an early stage (technology, efficiency, and approach); .

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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

This “ mission-driven state ” generated enormous demand for computing and communications technologies, which shaped entire industries around Boston and Silicon Valley. The core objective of SBIR was to de-risk commercial opportunities in high-technology areas in an effort to attract more venture capital into the most promising ones.

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The New Economy Starts with Gender Inclusive Programs

Impact Hub

Gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education . Gender differences in business sectors (women being less active in high growth industries such as tech than men, and women being more likely to run ventures focused on depth of impact vs breadth of impact than men).

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Why America Must Lead in AI Investment

Andreessen Horowitz

Martin: Yeah, do you think we can expect some legislation framework come out of this? We need to get clarity on a lot more of people’s concerns, but more importantly, what they perceive to be their opportunities as the technology evolves, as we learn more about the technology, as new versions are released.

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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. We want to show to the world that there is high tech and amazing technology companies being born and growing from Spain,” she tells TechCrunch.