Forward Cities

JUNE 27, 2019

By Gabriel Muñoz , Forward Cities Local Director – Kansas City, MO. Forward Cities is a national capacity-building and learning network working within and between cities and micropolitans to create more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem development. This is the mission of Forward Cities. It sounds impressive when you read it, but what does it really mean?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 27, 2019

David Kelnar sent me this deck that he did on the state of AI. It is very good. This slide got my attention: It is interesting, and not totally surprising, that the sector that AI-focused entrepreneurs are targeting more than any other is health and wellbeing. It seems like there is so much opportunity to improve our collective health and wellbeing with data science and machine learning.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 27, 2019

By Kaliah Ligon, Forward Cities Local Director – Indianapolis, IN. Last week’s Forward Cities conference in Pittsburgh highlighted the need for equity and inclusion in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Right from the start conference attendees were educated on the profound impact that systemic racism has had on the health and economic equity of black and Latinx people.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

For the past few years, the economics and policy literature has been full of stories bemoaning declining dynamism in the US economy. As recent studies have shown, the number of new firm starts is down, their survival rates are shorter, and their contributions to new job growth are lower. All of these findings come from excellent research using data on employer businesses, i.e. business establishments with at least one employee.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 27, 2019

OK. We know that an executive’s job is not easy. Nor is there much time in a typical day for outreach of any kind. Especially in your growing company, you are drawn into daily process issues by all of your direct reports, often responding to questions and problems, leaving little time for strategic thought. That’s bad behavior! And that behavior results in leaving little time for outreach to the most critical component in your chain – your key customers.

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