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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

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CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical. Our goal is to drive the process of startups in the community so that we are more effective as a startup ecosystem,” said founder John Sechrest in a video.

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Three options for seeing the solar eclipse, from expensive to iffy to absolutely free

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Thousands of eclipse-watchers will be flocking to that relatively narrow band of real estate for the big day, driving up the price of travel. Check out NASA’s news release for the full schedule and video links. “We will be located in 13 different ‘sunspots.’

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She helped lead the fight against Amazon’s return to office — and then had to leave a job she loved

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A former executive assistant and program manager who has only ever worked for Amazon since moving to Washington state from Virginia, Hayter became a leading critic in the push back against return-to-office mandates. If it’s because of your real estate investments, just say it,” Hayter said.

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

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Vice president of operations Victoria Kiss was a demand program manager at Convoy. The company: Founded in 2021, Magicall is a video calling app that allows children to play games and read books remotely with family and friends. Prices vary from about $100,000 to $3.6

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

Is it the Ford program manager for a car? Do you think Tesla rolling out Autopilot in beta , letting people do dumb things with it, constantly generating news cycles about it going sideways — there was a video the other day where it was getting confused by the moon in the sky. It is extremely valuable real estate.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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“We want to be active participants in building the kind of future where all of us get to work less, learn more, play more, explore more, express ourselves more…in a way that is sustainable for the rest of humanity and our planet,” she says in a video on FutureThinkers.org. and Sympler: Video Editing, from the Future ”.

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