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Startup News Digest 04/26/24

Net neutrality revival set to ensure level startup playing field

Startup News Digest 04/26/24
#StartupsEverywhere
Imani Webb
#StartupsEverywhere: San Antonio, Texas

José Padilla has an established track record of providing efficient, low-cost legal services. With LegalMente AI, he’s able to provide that same quality of work to those in need, including early-stage startups. We sat down with him to talk about what policymakers need to know about the uses of AI, how to keep the U.S. innovation ecosystem the most competitive globally, and his motivation to provide the most efficient work possible. 

#StartupsEverywhere: San Antonio, Texas
#StartupsEverywhere
Imani Webb
#StartupsEverywhere: Brooklyn, N.Y.

After overcoming childhood shyness in the warmth of his local Caribbean-owned barbershop, Royon Jeffrey knows the power of the beauty industry firsthand. He set out to create ListedB, an online marketplace for beauty industry professionals. We spoke to him about the financial opportunity within the industry, navigating capital access and investors, and his desire to empower small businesses owners.

#StartupsEverywhere: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Blog, @Engine, Tax & Trade
Nathan Lindfors
For startups’ sake, Congress needs to reorient ...

Foreign nations are saddling U.S. companies — including startups — with discriminatory burdens.

For startups’ sake, Congress needs to reorient U.S. trade agency
#StartupsEverywhere
Imani Webb
#StartupsEverywhere: New York, N.Y.

MegaMinds was created out of a need to make learning more creative, fun, and hands-on for students. In our conversation with Co-Founder and CEO Eric Tao, we learned about the growing popularity of immersive learning, the tricky regulatory landscape for a product like MegaMinds, and what it’s like for many first-time entrepreneurs to build businesses. 

#StartupsEverywhere: New York, N.Y.

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Startup News Digest 12/15/23

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Startup News Digest 12/15/23

Tens of thousands weigh in on net neutrality rulemaking 

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Startup News Digest 12/08/23

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Startup News Digest 12/08/23

Supreme Court hears about dangers of state social media laws, including to startups

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Startup News Digest 12/01/23

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Startup News Digest 12/01/23

Digital taxes on the horizon, Canada likely to be first

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Startup News Digest 08/18/23

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Startup News Digest 08/18/23

Congressional Startup Day brings together lawmakers and their startup constituents.

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Startup News Digest 08/04/23

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Startup News Digest 08/04/23

The Big Story: Bipartisan legislation to build AI resource for startups, researchers. A recently introduced bill would create government AI resources for startups and bolster needed talent in the field. The bipartisan bill—the Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with Artificial Intelligence Act of 2023 (CREATE AI Act)—formally establishes the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) which will provide compute, datasets, and educational resources for startups, students, and academics. The legislation comes amid rapid growth of AI technology and will improve the competitiveness of U.S. startups.

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Startup News Digest 07/28/23

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Startup News Digest 07/28/23

The Big Story: Senate advances bills requiring user data collection, limiting legal content online. This week, the Senate Commerce Committee advanced two bills that carry serious risks for cybersecurity, user privacy, and third-party content available on startups’ services. The legislation, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0), though well-intentioned, will increase costs of compliance, undermine startup competitiveness, and diminish user experience, as we highlighted in a letter ahead of the committee markup. 

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Startup News Digest 07/21/23

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Startup News Digest 07/21/23

The Big Story: Policymakers threaten successful startup exits, investment. This week, federal agencies released new draft guidelines for merger enforcement that could reduce the number of acquisitions and negatively impact the ability of startups to successfully exit. The new draft guidelines come amid a parallel effort to revise the filing process for larger transactions, adding costs and new burdens to those acquisitions. Taken together, the agencies’ actions are designed to limit acquisitions, which are critical to investment and successful exits in the startup ecosystem. 

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Startup News Digest 07/14/23

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Startup News Digest 07/14/23

The Big Story: EU, U.S. implement framework to restore transatlantic data transfers. The European Commission this week adopted a needed decision to implement the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, bringing certainty back to transatlantic data transfers and lowering barriers for startups. The long-awaited agreement ends years of uncertainty surrounding data flows needed for U.S. startups to serve EU customers thanks to the invalidation of an earlier transfer agreement called Privacy Shield. The new framework is a welcome step that will bolster the competitiveness of U.S. startups looking to serve the EU market. 

 

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