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Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders

TechCrunch

While an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins, Nguyen interviewed hundreds of small business owners and realized that many pay hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain a business checking account. After his last startup, Framed Data, was acquired by Square , Thomson Nguyen began exploring new ideas.

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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

Before Minerva was officially founded, Dawood and Rathnayake took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to help universities with entrepreneurship programs. and interviewing over 200 potential customers, everybody from CEOs to operators in the field, in order to learn how to get product-market fit.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. BERI was a three-year collaborative effort I worked on with Cecilia Garibay, Nan Renner and Carlos Plaza.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Grants come from community foundations, small local family foundations, local businesses. We''re just starting to interview our alumni now and creating a catalogue of their stories.

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Here’s why AG1’s CEO is envisioning the DTC supplement on store shelves

Fast Company Tech

I think about third-party certificationswe’ve been NSF[-certified] for sport for eight or nine years, which is a third-party certification that not only verifies that what’s on the label is in the product, it also ensures there are no contaminants or doping agents. AG1 is foundational nutrition. That has evolved over time.

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The Trump administration should follow its own order on free expression

Fast Company Tech

As our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) pointed out , the United States has long funded programs that support technologies that enhance privacy, fight censorship, and support internet freedomand this order is directly undermining those programs.

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