Geography: canvas for multiple interpretations
We asked AI a number of questions about the most distant Illinois communities in relation to Chicago. We then followed up with a number of clarifying questions. Then we asked…
Private equity and other law business trends
Is the legal field the "last untapped gold mine?"The potential market for litigation finance ranges in $100s of billions, of which some $30 billion is currently funded.Created after the 1960s,…
Attention as a Service in B2B context
"Intelligence Explosion", "Post-scarcity", "Technological Singularity" -- for someone who is a little familiar with at least several of these concepts, attention management is a major framework to consider. A Wikipedia…
Dunbar’s number in global partnerships
Over 15 years ago, the Swedish Tax Agency rolled out a plan to reorganize its functions with a max 150 employees per office. Participants of the Hamburg-based social network XING…
News deserts and hyperlocal marketing
In NYC, high-information New Yorkers adapt "plaintive ignorance". The New York Times recently observed how some left-leaning, reflective New Yorkers vowed to break up with the news. One cited reason:…
City digital twins as a talking point
Source: https://hoodmaps.com/pittsburgh-neighborhood-map
Pittsburgh. Nvidia's first “AI Tech Community city”. A city full of entities that deploy artificial intelligence to solve hard challenges in the physical world. The second largest city in Pennsylvania…
Free meals+souvenirs in business networking
Business networking can feel a little awkward sometimes. You end up in these situations where it's all small talk and maybe some boring business talk. But, there's a way to…
Tapping into ~30,000 local zoning codes
As we discussed it here earlier, urban AI startups are making hyperlocal insights more accessible and enable faster data-informed decision making for entrepreneurs and city managers.In the meantime, urban experts…
Startup Mentor, 5,000 Cities: 2 Tracks
Here our founder explains the figure "5,000" in the company's name. Does 5,000 Cities need 5,000 mentors -- one for each city across the world that has at least 100,000…
Are you building an itinerant startup?
The Old Market in Omaha, Nebraska as of 2018. Source: https://unsplash.com/@amseaman
Depending on who is reading this -- you may be a local economic development officer in search of startups that exhibit the healthy signs of "staying power". Or you may…