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NASA moves forward with 17 companies as part of bid to transform urban aerial transportation

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Getting the agreements signed are the first step in a multi-stage process that will culminate in the challenge’s official competition in 2022. There are preliminary technological tests that will take place this year. “We

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6 Keys To Thriving In This New Era Of Remote Services

Startup Professionals Musings

Another major source of services clients these days is online industry directory sites and ranking review articles. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 3/4/2022. I still find too many service organizations that ignore or discount online reviews and satisfaction surveys.

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New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals

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Budget hasn’t been allocated for the accountability plan, but people familiar with the City Council’s plan expect that implementation could begin in the 2021-2022 budget cycle. Los Angeles has tried to address its carbon footprint in the past, but the efforts weren’t very successful.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

It encompasses your marketing strategy used to attract, engage, and retain customers by creating and sharing relevant articles, videos, podcasts, and other media. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/10/2022. The current term for all these activities and results online is “ content marketing.” Don’t forget it.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

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According to a recent article on Thrinacia , there are now aver 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to 2022.

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Smart Audio – A Lucrative Platform… If You Figure Out How To Leverage It

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A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. This is a significant acceleration of Juniper’s prediction in early 2018 that the 50% threshold wouldn’t be crossed until 2022. My adult daughter recently visited us for a few weeks and she brought along a good friend… Alexa. What’s Next? –

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

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From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. Peter Kim via Getty Images. Will “Diet CA-HSR” even get done as feds look to pull back California funding. billion it has already coughed up.