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

TechCrunch LA

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. ” Climate resiliency . Water and power infrastructure .

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Adecco to Buy General Assembly for $412.5M to Grow Tech Workforce

Xconomy

The deal underscores the growing demand for software coding and other digital skills—and employers’ increased willingness to turn to non-traditional sources to find talent. General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university.

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

socalTECH

The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. Thanks for the time this morning.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Build Something, Build Anything.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.