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Dear Sophie: How will this election nail-biter affect immigration?
Walter Thompson Contributor Senior Editor Walter Thompson manages Extra Crunch and TechCrunch’s guest post program. Previously, he was City Editor for Hoodline and managed content development, marketing and community management for a number of startups. He also hosts The Golden City, a podcast that presents stories from San Francisco’s past,…
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Gauging growth in the most challenging environment in decades
Michael Whitmire, CPA Contributor Michael Whitmire, CPA, is co-founder and chief executive officer at Los Angeles-based FloQast, Inc., a developer of accounting close management software. Traditionally, measuring business success requires a greater understanding of your company’s go-to-market lifecycle, how customers engage with your product and the macro-dynamics of your market.…
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Crypto Startup School: How to build companies by building communities
Zoran Basich Contributor Zoran Basich is the crypto editor for Andreessen Horowitz. More posts by this contributor Crypto Startup School: Capturing value in crypto through network effects and mechanism design Crypto Startup School: How to scale companies using crypto Editor’s note: Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup School brought together 45 participants…
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Demonstrating 15 contact tracing and other tools built to mitigate the impact of COVID-19
Andy Moss Contributor Andy Moss is currently a Visiting Professor at NYU Tandon teaching entrepreneurship and innovation as well developing the COR Methodology, an active advisor/mentor to startups and business leaders, and is a former Microsoft executive. Connor Spelliscy Contributor John Borthwick Contributor John Borthwick is the founder and CEO…
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Silicon Valley can fight systemic racism by supporting Black-owned businesses
Will Walker Contributor As the United States sees its second week of large-scale protests against police brutality, it’s painfully clear that the country’s racial divide requires significant short- and long-term action. But most of these calls for change gloss over the role Silicon Valley can and should play in mending…
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Big tech should create a national service program to make the US more united
Kevin Frazier Contributor Kevin Frazier, a Masters of Public Policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School and JD candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Law, uses his spare time to advocate for better government. More posts by this contributor COVID-19 shows we need Universal Basic Internet now Facebook posts…
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