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3 Principles of Local Economic Development For the Post-COVID World

It’s inevitable: After COVID, we’ll discover that a number of temporary societal adjustments from this transformative period have stuck around. There will be sweeping, permanent tectonic shifts in the way we treat technology, employment, crisis preparedness, and economic resiliency.

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The Economics of Innovation and New Technology Will Lead Our Recovery

Okay, this pandemic is a problem.

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Reason For Hope

Pay attention to the news for any length of time and it’s easy to fall into a negative state. The extremes reported on with such zeal and drama (regardless of outlet) has from time to time left me wondering if we’ll ever make it out. Memes are emerging to reflect our collective mood swings. My favorite thus far, “coronacoaster,” is defined as the swing between the bliss that comes from isolation and being in control of your time, to the fear from fretting over the future including this confusing curiosity: “why am I missing people I don’t even like?”

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Our Post-COVID Economic Transformation Will Need Innovative Leadership

It’s often been said of late that we’re ‘in it together.’ As our economy works to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, many businesses have adopted this mentality. After all, as the economy goes, so goes private enterprise.

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Now is the Time to Re-Engineer the Technology Economy for Growth

Times are certainly hard in the private sector. And yet, they also present us with a timely opportunity. The global health crisis of COVID-19 is a catastrophic disruption that’s also our best chance to rethink some of the conventional wisdom around economic expansion.

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It's Time to Build

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz calls on America to reverse the inertia, stop with the excuses, and get to building things again.

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Polish your crystal ball and gaze into the post-COVID-19 future.

Everyone's opinion of what our world will look like and work like after it is safe to come out of our homes is worthy of consideration.

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Expansion of the Fittest

Waymaker has been hard at work expanding and tweaking services to meet your new, post-COVID-19 realities.

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Blair Garrou

Managing Director, Mercury Fund

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Manoj Saxena

Venture Capitalist