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Tennessee just made an invisible update to its tourism site—and it’s brilliant

Fast Company Tech

Now, no longer is a photo of Kings Palace Cafe in Memphis an image of a person playing guitar in a bar. Of course, weak image descriptions are an issue in most industries, and song lyrics obviously arent a universal panacea. I can guarantee it will not break any bank of any travel or tourism department, he says.

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A semester in solitude

The Verge

We will be updating the FAQ and providing additional details going forward [link] — American University (@AmericanU) July 30, 2020. 1/4) [link] — GW University (@GWtweets) July 27, 2020. But they’re aspects of college social life that many students and university members took for granted in the past. and I’m not seeing that.”.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

TechCrunch

note: I’m available for a call, too, Bill), “the people like Memphis Meats who do it at a cellular level—I don’t know that that will ever be economical.” Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed.

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Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day

TechCrunch

billion , including companies like Memphis Meats, which develops cultured meat from animal cells; NotCo, a plant-based food brand; and Catalog, which uses organisms for data storage. Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. Leaving the $3.2

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Why you want your nonprofit to fail

ASU Lodestar Center

Chloe Silva is a graduate of the Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts program at Arizona State University (ASU), where she studied critical theory and Indigenous self-determination. Prior to attending ASU, she worked for Teach For America * Memphis.

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Furthering Your Nonprofit Career: 3 Tips for Development

Bloomerang

She received her master’s in public administration from the University of Memphis and is a Certified Nonprofit Professional. Currently, Schmidt is the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance president, an organization that develops talent for the nonprofit workforce. They live in Leawood, Kansas.

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The Lessons Learned From Small Businesses

Eric Jacobsen Blog

You’ll read those dozens of stories captured by three information-hungry economist/b-school professor buddies who traveled Memphis, TN to Omaha, NE; Charlotte, NC to Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL to Cincinnati, OH, and so on. For the small businesses we met with, growth was a nearly universal aspiration.

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