Branding reptuation. Much like a hipster with a good mustache, referring to your city as a haven for startups is rather “in” right now.
Startup hubs are currently popping up in the older Rustbelt cities where manufacturing once led the way. Several cities – Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Nashville, and Louisville – are making strong runs at realistically developing ecosystems that accommodate hungry entrepreneurs much like Austin, Seattle and Charlotte have previously over the past two decades. But once the essential elements are in place to create the ecosystem and support startups – venture capital, incubators, accelerators, mentoring and more – how do cities attract entrepreneurs? How do they rebrand themselves as fertile territory for startups, effectively articulating a story and reshaping perception? There are a number of vital processes, tools, and subtleties that are essential to a startup hub’s success. If the pieces are in place, rebranding a region as a startup hub isn’t brain surgery.
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Senior Entrepreneurship. Media Release : Bankwest Business Trends Report. Cognitive functioning and Ageing. Innovation@50+ initiative encourages research technologies, improve quality of life for all. Watch The World Grow Older*, In 4 GIFs : Planet Money. The developed world is getting old, and Japan is the poster boy.
The graph below shows how, over the course of a century, Japan shifts a from nation where children predominate to a nation of senior citizens. (The population figures and projections for the coming half-century are from the United Nations' Population Division.) Aging populations are typically driven by declining fertility rates and increased life spans. The U.S. is aging as well, but not nearly as much as Japan. The fertility rate in the U.S. remains higher than the fertility rate in Japan — 2 children per woman in the U.S. vs 1.3 in Japan. *Not all countries are getting older. Maya Angelou on Home, Belonging, and (Not) Growing Up. Bill Gates and President Bill Clinton on the NSA, Safe Sex, and American Exceptionalism. You want a world-class conversation about the future of global health, the vanguard of philanthropy, and the divide between ignorance and data-driven knowledge?
Bring in the Bills. Gates and Clinton, that is. They share much more than a first name. Both pivoted from spectacular first acts to second careers devoted to tackling some of the biggest problems on the planet. To do this, they have capitalized on their previous roles, their connections, and their brainpower. As founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the former president is a forceful explainer in chief, elucidating what needs to be done to alleviate poverty and treat AIDS. Both organizations have made a staggering impact. The foundations are at the forefront of a new era in philanthropy, in which decisions—often referred to as investments—are made with the strategic precision demanded of business and government, then painstakingly tracked to gauge their success.
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Soap Operas and Cell Phones: Riding on technological channels to impact financial capability at scale. By Beniamino Savonitto and Pooja Wagh Can a soap opera star with a knack for getting into trouble also be a good teacher?
The answer is yes, at least in the prime-time South African television show Scandal!. Maletsatsi’s misadventures with installment plans, gambling, and borrowing eventually led her to seek the help of a credit counselor to manage her debt and fix her mistakes. Luckily for us, a group of World Bank researchers conducted a randomized evaluation around this innovative take on financial education; the results show that the soap opera had significant positive impacts on the financial literacy and behavior of its viewers. (See more on this project in the World Bank-produced video below). In a country with a large incidence of informal borrowing and overindebtedness (according to the National Credit Regulator, 47 percent of borrowers had impaired credit records in 2013), this intervention holds great promise.
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