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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch

So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist? Their children are three times as likely to grow up in poverty and stay poor throughout their lifetimes.

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

TechCrunch

And making the raw components of the system freely available leaves the door open to bad actors who could train them on subjectively inappropriate content, like pornography and graphic violence. ” But Mostque argues that — by making the tools freely available — it allows the community to develop countermeasures.

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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

See what two not yet 20 year olds were able to do and sustain. MedInternational was started in 2011 to raise the standard of healthcare in resource-poor regions of the world by sharing and maintaining appropriate hospital technology in these areas, initially Zanzibar, Tanzania. by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012.

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

” Far from the desertion of tedious tasks or monotonous busywork, this means giving team members control and independence, and constantly cleaning the edges of my own plate that, almost by definition of the role, will constantly overflow. So often dissonance, disappointment, or disaster is a result of poor communications.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

And it has long been known that inequality and caste are corrosive to social stability and predict the fate of nations. But one thing is certain: the inventions we most urgently need will take us in a very different direction than the consumer internet and social media revolution that is coming to an unsightly end.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Most monopolies or duopolies develop over time, and have been considered dangerous to competitive markets ; now they are sought after from the start and are the holy grail for investors. How might that market have developed differently? It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits.