Ballotpedia summary of state legislation regarding ESG/boycotts/climate

23 attorneys general wrote commentary on the proposed rule “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights” that would allow ERISA to make ESG considerations for investments.

highly realistic talking head generation from single image; not yet open source

Data and graphs on growth in energy demand and grid limitations across the US

EIA.gov data on electricity prices across the country

Q4 2023 RFP from the Solar Energy Technologies Office. Good descriptor of fundable opportunities in solar thermal

energy.gov overview on CST and relevance for industrial use cases

overview of various CSP technologies

video demonstration of using a bowl of sand to store thermal heat and generate an electrical current

video demonstration of a two-piston stirling engine

short description on thermal and heat battery storage for solar solutions

overview of challenges associated with phase 3 transmission, substations, queueing, and capacity

interactive graphs and charts showing homelessness, asylum seeking, evictions by month

pages of terms and definitions for land management and forestry

Graphs and data around immigration since 1850

heat pump's role in climate change

World bank tool to understand lithium sources and movements

We’re at the lower bound of profits that go to taxes and debt

Book on 1-5kw solar grid construction

Federal Reserve discussion paper on digital transformation

Why DTC is old news

Some examples of large FQs transitioning to vbc

national venture association legal templates

Detail on different bundled payment structures

detail on state priorities as of 2018

Medicaid's role in financing maternal

FCC provides a free Android smartphone and a low cost data/voice plan for Americans who qualify for SNAP/Medicaid

Helpful database of states and their progress toward covering doulas

Medicaid spend by service category and population

Lots of data about Medicaid population, segmentation, costs

Overview of direct contracting, among other vbc models

Obstacles to VBC in medicaid

Analysis on what this means for telehealth and the employer channel

Medicare advantage startup focused on global capitation and indie PCPs

Data on percent of children in dual vs single parent households, by race, as of 2018

Data on poverty rates among dual and single parent households of different races in the US, 2010 and 2018

2019 Exec summary on the ~45% of adults who can't read and racial composition

Why American cities can't keep up with infra maintenance

10 reasons laid out by feldstein

Pilots that USPS is considering to speed up last mile

DHL provides a framework for LMD

Data on income, wealth between urban and rural households

Whitepaper on consumer prefs and market opportunity of b2c same day shipping

A strong overview of the 340b pharmacy, end-to-end

whitepaper on first fill attrition (~25%)

database on state government financial conditions

About product ownership, idea silos, and building what customers want

Explainer of ALEC and SiX

MIT course on how to present

Different resources on quantifying risk

Senate Finance Committee whitepaper on pharma

industry whitepaper on LDD benefits for manufacturers

Explainer of how manufacturers think about LDD

how to keep automated decision systems accountable

facebook's role in ethnic hatred

CBO report on options to cut the deficit into 2026 (see table 1-1)

manipulation of face on videos

queryable database of district-level data

good appendix on racial achievement gaps

nouriel roubini destroys bitcoin hype

philosophers translated into modern english

world bank on energy access markets and capital

pairing brain wave data with image data to train on image reconstruction

converting website screenshots to code

image segmentation and classification for medical diagnoses

29% ROI on fintech investments exceeds all other geographies

lex friedman at mit sloan

gary marcus takes opposition to deep learning hype

too much focus on changing the worker, not the job market

combining common with subdebt and preferred

mckinsey article on country/consumer adoption

lifesaver github repo for unsubscribing from bulk emails

user interface building at leapmotion

B Lab cofounders discuss how pension funds et al "own the market" and can benefit from improving it, not just beating it.

Dave McClure on how to build a fund thesis

video creation from audio files

presentation on public IPOs, M&A, growth/scale/burn

publicly traded comps on cloud computing

how AGZ team created algorithms that achieve superhuman performance in the most challenging domains with no human input. "reinforcement learning"

mark suster of Upfront discusses the hype

HBR on PE vs corporate acquisitions

Brookings Tax Policy Center gives overview of corp taxation

statistically significant impact of exposure to robots on employment, wages

where blended finance is coming from, and going to

distribution of hungry by country

dalberg on agriculture finance

ey does an overview of pe in africa

impact measurement is not just a cost center, has ROI

tech + development incubation at MIT

banks incent execs to join govt with vesting acceleration

this surprised me

order fulfillment to rural consumers in indonesia

elon musk at ycombinator

summary of clayton christensen's book

sequencing steps to growth

blackrock on incorporating esg into corporate interactions

emerging market discount rates, aswath damodaran

good overview of private equity structure, LBO, moral hazards

low cost cold chain method using window unit a/c

south africa's mobile-first solution to talent recruitment

seven 2-hour videos and resources on running ai python instances

obama on why voters still feel left behind after recovery

monetary policy created perverse incentives for lending

student labor unions: good or bad

see how us govt spends money, accessible via api

an economic history of hours worked in america

package for local ai app running on mobile devices

uber for rct surveys (beta)

mostly about iot devices surpassing mobile devices in 2018

amazing visualizer of economic data

revisited this report after a few years to see if it still has legs

past mobile phone use predicts socioeconomic status

sean ellis on milestones and timing

stackoverflow on using chron w bs4

one pager prospectus on a usaid project

on the cultural resistance to internet and technology in em

the state of mezz debt structures and funds focused on small cap

order fulfillment to rural consumers in indonesia

framework by MSI

nyt on reshoring and costs of production increasing in china

un pulse labs on big data use cases and applications

affordable housing data in africa

School monitoring and evaluation system in Punjab

redistribution has a net positive impact on growth

overview of blockchain

tala announces 30m series b

market segmentation of rural mobile users

visual attribute transfer; convert painting to image

good breakdown and examples of cohort analyses

factors leading to massive scale in vietnamese robusta

case studies of local currency financing and fx risk in development

better version of ical?

access to trade finance and reasons for barriers

how telecom data provides data for humanitarian intervention

how to video on using beautifulsoup with python

asset price charts and pre-bubble historical data

Interesting way to write a memoir on travel

B-Labs list of 846 companies it deems 'best for the world'

how to manage currency risk through blended finance

social capital partner muses on vc valuation

data aggregation, automated SME lending

andrew chen on customer acquisition costs

how the bank of england evaluates bank capital buffers

computer science literature out of cornell

student group at MIT sloan

food prices had a causal relationship with Arab Spring

data science for productivity and fraud detection

bcg on private equity landscape and its undersaturation

marc andreessen on product-mkt fit, and importance of market

numerai founder on the anti-collaborative implications of fiat currency

omidyar's list of useful links for impact investing

how the sustainable dev goals can apply to business

countries that trade have lower child labor rates

how network and device-level data are providing humanitarian insights

how big telecom is utilizing startup innovation in emerging markets

mobile commerce for informal fabric market in lagos

nyu stern corp finance webcasts

Facebook routinely tags images to identify objects and interests

piketty on teacher unions hurting student productivity

bans reduce wages and incent informal economy

great overview of the state of world trade today (tpp, ttip, doha)

gender differences, survey methodologies of smartphone use

data collection methodologies and other projects

mckinsey on african economies through 2025

overview of players and regulatory bodies for capital markets

musings on the power of facebook to alter reality and perception

increase in punitive sentencing has hurt black progress

Stackoverflow on get random value from an array

stanford's initiation of a 100yr study of AI's affect on life

IBM watson AI api

scheduled scraping

larry summers on infrastructure

failure of asset-based lending with harvest buyback model

when to focus on growth vs traction

interesting bearish EM tech story

source of references for AI, AI for public good

three centuries of macroeconomic data from the uk

insight into topics discussed in series b raise

world food production = 2700 calories/person on earth

mckinsey report on transnational data flows

gsma on how telecomm is facilitating birth registration

written by ken rogoff

fiscal loosening + monetary tightening = dollar appreciation

opinions, thought pieces, research on m-pesa

real wage growth, decile divergence

bain on different models for pe in africa

everything you want to know about airport cargo hubs

ibm watson documentation

vox on bengals and toygers

survey to evaluate poverty

redditor explains interest rate swaps

example of how using leverage increases returns

larry summer defends subsidizing banks over cram down

mark suster on sales through channel partners

the roll out and growth of indian digital ID platform with 1.2b enrollments

currency, banking, anti-corruption

world per capita fish consumption 9.9kg in 1960 -> 20kg now

examples of in kind lending

review of necessary elements for gold chain development

Riscua on private and public african equity markets

studio d radiodurans on zimbabwe

economist on bank balance sheets and banker incentives

failure of asset-based lending with harvest buyback model

bain on low success rates of csr programs

Ridesharing for refugee camps

graphs on internet, mobile penetration, developing market

ev = the cost to acquire

soil 101

report on issues with smallholder coffee farming

telenor ceo on data consumption in myanmar

food prices caused 1848 european revolutions

root capital on rehabilitation and renovation of coffee

sustainable specialty coffee importers

trade benefits poor bc of higher consumption of traded goods

unemployment vs. balance of payments

an explanation of machine and deep learning

machine learning algorithms are biased based on inputs