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☆ Canada's bold plan to make housing more affordable is showing signs of working — and could be a model for the US
  + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Like the American federal government, Canada's national government doesn't have a lot of control over housing policy. Related storiesOverall, the federal push has already been quite successful in changing the housing policy landscape across the country, Moffat said. Over the last several years, an influx of new immigrants, rampant investor speculation, and rapidly rising construction costs have also sent prices up. It would also impose a fine on cities that tolerate "NIMBY" — the anti-development "Not in My Backyard" philosophy — opposition to housing construction. Some American fans of Canada's Housing Accelerator Fund suggest it could be a model for US efforts to incentivize denser and more abundant housing construction.
Persons: i'm, it's, Mike Moffatt, Moffat, —, Justin Trudeau, Trudeau, Matti Siemiatycki, Siemiatycki, there's, densification, Pierre Poilievre, hasn't, Joe Biden's Organizations: Service, Business, Smart Prosperity, University of Ottawa, Housing, Liberal, Infrastructure Institute, University of Toronto's, of Cities, Concordia University, Conservative Party, Investment, Jobs Locations: Canada, Ottawa, British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, California, United States
☆ Anne Dwane has been a jack-of-all-trades in the startup world. Here's how that's helped her build a successful investing career.
  + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Over the course of 20 years, Anne Dwane has made a name for herself as a successful entrepreneur and executive. For Dwane, her career as a startup founder and operator helped her find success as an early-stage investor. Dwane left Monster in 2008 to become the CEO of Zinch, an edtech startup that helped colleges recruit and students find programs and scholarships. With the guidance of a mentor, Chegg's CEO Dan Rosensweig, the experience also helped her understand that her superpower lay in helping early-stage companies grow. Village Global is an early-stage fund that leads seed and pre-seed funding rounds.
Persons: Anne Dwane, she's, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Dwane, I've, Chegg, Dan Rosensweig Organizations: Monster Worldwide, Business, Village, Georgetown University, Harvard Business School, Research, Monster, Accelerator Fund, Brightside, Airbase Locations: Palo Alto , California, Chegg
☆ For YouTuber multi-millionaires Rhett & Link, venture capital is the future of creators
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Zach Vallese | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
The pair chose to reinvest their earnings, and lessons from their experiences, in burgeoning creators through an accelerator fund. "The right creators are good and investments," said McLaughlin, who is co-CEO of Mythical Entertainment. They both have a vision to grow their business and to lead their business," McLaughlin said. VC firm Slow Ventures has also launched a creator fund and has taken a keen interest in the business of those in the creator economy. Providing creators like Mogilko with capital gives them the ability to grow quickly at a time when they can leverage their existing social media virality.
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