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Two Charts that I've Been Wondering About

Tomasz Tunguz

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot about the stock market, the economy, and geopolitics, always a dangerous combination. I’ve come across two charts that I have been wondering about. The first comes from Bloomberg via the BEA. It shows consumer savings rates have catapulted to the highest level ever measured. Meanwhile, consumer spending has fallen in parallel.

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Reopening Your Restaurant: A Quick Guide to Doing it Right

Smart Hustle Magazine

If you’re a restaurant owner, I’m sure you’re looking forward to reopening and getting back to business. But diners are nervous. In a recent survey, by P&G Professional , more than 70% of diners expect more thorough and frequent cleaning in restaurants, and 74% want to know how restaurants are being cleaned and sanitized and what measures are being taken to ensure food safety.

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Working Virtually

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Many of us have been working from home or some other remote location for over three months now. We have learned a fair bit about this approach to work and we have more to learn in the coming months. I don’t think we will be done with remote work until the pandemic is over. It has taught me three conflicting things: 1/ I can be a lot more productive working remotely than many of us believed before the pandemic. 2/ Those with kids at home don’t experience the same productivity boost. 3

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Securities and Exchange Commission Seeks Input from ACA Members

Angel Capital Association

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager The Angel Capital Association was honored to have Martha Miller of the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) participate in ACA 2020 – The Summit of Angel Investing. Martha’s fireside chat, Vision Critical – Breaking News With the SEC, discussed timely updates, trends, and perspectives about how COVID-19 is impacting raising capital, crowdfunding, and strategies to bridge networks.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Cómo una educadora financiera en Jamaica persevera ante la adversidad

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Jewelle Saunders. Kenishia Mais, becaria de YLAI en 2018, es la fundadora de ThrivingDollars (en inglés) , una plataforma de educación financiera diseñada para empoderar a adultos jóvenes con las herramientas y los recursos que necesitan para tomar decisiones más inteligentes. En su camino hacia el éxito financiero y el emprendimiento Kenishia debió enfrentar muchas adversidades y ahora trabaja arduamente para inspirar a otros a perseverar y luchar por el futuro que añoran.

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Attitude Is Everything

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. He is also an active member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization Montreal chapter. . “What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.” – J.

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Community of Cultivators: Edition 33

GCUC

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global. The post Community of Cultivators: Edition 33 appeared first on GCUC Community.

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Kansas City Business Journal] Virgin Hyperloop taps Wichita company to help build commercial hyperloop

OurCrowd

Virgin Hyperloop is partnering with aerostructures manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems Inc. as the hyperloop company moves toward making a commercial product. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Kansas City Business Journal] Virgin Hyperloop taps Wichita company to help build commercial hyperloop appeared first on OurCrowd.

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How a financial educator in Jamaica perseveres through adversity 

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Jewelle Saunders. 2018 YLAI Fellow Kenishia Mais, founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform designed to empower young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, has had to face a lot of adversity on her path to financial success and entrepreneurship. Kenishia is working hard to inspire others to persevere and fight for the future that they want.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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[MigVax in The Times of Israel] Their best shots: Israeli efforts to invent a coronavirus vaccine, explained

OurCrowd

In what is believed to be the first appearance for Israeli scientists on the “landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines,” the Israel Institute for Biological Research and the Weizmann Institute of Science got a listing for their joint work on a vaccine design. Read more here. The post [MigVax in The Times of Israel] Their best shots: Israeli efforts to invent a coronavirus vaccine, explained appeared first on OurCrowd.

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10 Ways close the Coronavirus budget gap in New York

This is going to be BIG.

1) Legalize all the vices. Quarantine brought us some relief on alcohol takeout in order to give local restaurants something else to sell—but that doesn’t nearly go far enough. Not every attempt to fill the city’s budget needs to come from increasing the taxes on things we already tax. The easiest new source of revenue for the city would be areas where there’s already lots of illegal economic activity that doesn’t get taxed at all, but where legalization would actually bring regulation and impro