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Second in a three-part series: Economic development is shifting from chasing established businesses to boosting homegrown entrepreneurs. Does any of it work?
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What six years in the Army and a career in construction taught JT Aaron about running a startup
Now leading civic tech venture It Takes the Village, a West Point graduate applies process engineering to solve neighborhood problems across Philly.
He planned to become a philosopher. Then he found New Orleans’ startup world.
Idea Village programs director Andrew Albert talks about leaving academia, learning entrepreneurship at Lucid and why aspiring founders should be ready to pivot.
Teachers team up to build a statewide science kit business outside the traditional classroom
Former educators Lindsey MacWha and Jennifer Corron share how they grew their pandemic project into a full-time venture.
Annoyed by bad app design, Scott Pulkowski remade his favorite airplane card game
The functional consultant explains how leaning into learning AI fuels his work and shares career advice for early-stage developers.
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Latest federal government news
EDA Tech Hubs survive federal cuts with $169 million in lean funding round
A shift toward advanced energy and defense shapes the latest awards, favoring refined pitches from places like Missouri, Kansas and Idaho.
Inside the funding tradeoffs shaping regional tech and entrepreneurship ecosystems
An expert panel at Technical.ly’s Builder Conference detailed how to make such investments central, even as they compete with other public-sector and nonprofit priorities.
SBIR funding is back: Here’s what startup founders need to know
After a six-month lapse, these federal grants are available again — with new rules on foreign ties, proposal limits and opportunities for additional money.
The defense tech boom is here. Staying in business could be harder.
Building a durable national security company requires more than capital, founders and investors say, and intentionality is key.
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How nail techs and Etsy crafters fit into the quantum workforce
Building a local quantum ecosystem requires a wide variety of jobs, economic development leaders stressed at this year’s Quantum World Congress.
Where US unicorns still cluster — and why copying the map fails
Data show the $1 billion club stays in a few metros. The smartest ecosystem builders stopped trying to manufacture one.
For Horizon Worlds creators, leaving Meta isn’t as simple as logging off
Inside Meta’s sidelined metaverse, longtime creators are still performing, playing cards, running businesses and figuring out where to go next.
The physical footprint behind AI and cloud computing: A breakdown of data center types
Whether streaming Netflix or training massive algorithms, different digital tasks require radically different physical infrastructure.
There’s a new platform to track economic impact of startups, with metrics that really matter
By centralizing data and back-office fund operations, Homefield aims to help ecosystem support programs prove their impact and better back early-stage founders.
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