Dan Romero on Warpcast

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This is strictly available only to non profits, universities (esp HBCUs) and local governments. Partnerships with private industry to receive any grant money is essentially a local politicking game, there’s no direct channel to actually receive a grant as a tech business in one of these tech hubs. Kinda broken.

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i actually support this encouraging more innovation on the edges is helpful for places like buffalo and st. louis where there are ambitious young people without the means to move

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Anyone have a counter proposal that would better achieve the states goals, with the same money? Stuff like: Local market-driven investment, private sector matching, streamlined regulations, education, infrastructure, promotion, independent evaluation, and competition to foster tech hubs in selected cities. Thoughts?

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...counter factual universe (that might actually work): Find the equivalent of the modern day J.C. Licklider, give him the equiv ($) of what he was handed when transitioning the space programme from military to NASA, with the same freedoms (aka. "don't fuck with Lick")...and then let something actually work.

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This stuff is so cool to me in the headlines…. implementations always seem to fall short Wish it was clearer how this money was allocated, from selecting hubs on down In what world does NY or IL need these dollars lol

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derek pfp

dan...just curious...when was the last time you talked to a poor person?

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honestly, a tiny grant would totally transform my work. except I refuse to fill out forms

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What about stimulating any of the emerging (and credible) mechanisms that have 'retroactive public goods funding' as their mission (like OP stack et al)?

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what is this, a Silicon Valley for ants?

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every municipality in America after reading this https://youtu.be/bqqCTC9nQDY?si=9EtbeMWbY-3QcpuM

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used to live in kansas city and they lived for these grants

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When you can’t get that LP allocation you want in the top VC funds lol

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This might work if the funds go to a specialty in a specific region. E.g. for biotech in the Research Triangle, for agriculture in the midwest, for energy in Houston, etc.

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Ontario took a similar approach with regional innovation hubs. Grants went to people building innovation infrastructure (accelerators, hackathons, etc) rather than people building actual products. They basically turned into dealflow for VCs. Which is fine, but not an ideal outcome for innovation IMHO

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I’ve announced my home office as a regional tech hub 🚩

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Interesting list. Silicon Valley no where to be found.

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Airdrop? Wen token?

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indy pfp

It's a way for Democrats to give money to their political friends. Echo the correct shibboleths and you'll be rewarded

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