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Birdhouse maker with an eye for Apple design ready to take flight with appearance on ‘Shark Tank’

GeekWire

Peep Show Photo) According to USA Today , on average, the show receives 35,000 to 40,000 applicants each season. The Peep Show Photo) Along the way, Gray was teamed with a mentor from SCORE , a Seattle nonprofit that helps small business owners get started. The Peep Show creator Steve Gray.

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X-ray vision in the warehouse: ThruWave raises $6.4M to help online retailers see through packages

GeekWire

ThruWave is also working with In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investor for U.S. government agencies, to use its packing screening technology for national security applications. million to date, in addition to $1 million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the National Science Foundation.

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Blue Origin gets ready to test its suborbital spaceship with COVID-19 safety in mind

GeekWire

NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program provided funding for payload development and flight. Applications include cryogenic propellant storage and management for in-space propulsion systems. amounting to a total of 12 commercial payloads.

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

CTOvision

College of William and Mary (Williamsburg), Reducing Smartphone Application Delay through Read/Write Isolation , Dr. Gang Zhou, $99,998, Information Technology. University of Virginia (Charlottesville), Accelerating Data Analytics (Bioinformatics) Applications Using the Automata Processor , Dr. Mircea Stan, $100,000, Information Technology.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Given this, enterprises, public sector bodies, startups, and small businesses are looking to adopt agile, scalable, and secure public cloud solutions. The new Canada (Central) Region offers a robust suite of infrastructure, management, and developer services that can enable innovators to deploy market-leading applications.

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Why more Americans than ever are starting their own businesses 

Vox

While data on true business formations is available only through 2019 , growth in ID number applications is closely related to actual business formations. Americans’ reasons for heading out on their own to start their own businesses are as varied as Americans themselves, ranging from the financial to the philosophical.

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The next generation of startups is remote

The Verge

Literally all you have to do is fill out an application that’s kind of like a college application or a job application, which most people have done. So we basically built a common application that allows anyone to apply to all YC companies at the same time. And you mentioned applications increasing, it’s crazy.