Unexotic Ventures
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Congratulations to our past winners and nominees for their phenomenal work in bringing attention to issues *unexotic* -- under-the-radar, underfunded, under-reported, unglamorous:
- Anti-Ageism activist Ashton Applewhite, founder of @ThisChairRocks & @OldSchool_Info
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Congrats to this year's winners & nominees:
- Acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites, formerly of the @NYTimes, whose output was unexotic avant la lettre.
- Entrepreneur, founder, & future US President @AndrewYangVFA, CEO of @Venture4America
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Congrats to this year's winners & nominees:
- Amy Goldstein's Janesville, a chronicle of a collapsing Wisconsin town. Winner of the @FT/@McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
- @ClevelandHustles by @LebronJames & @BoninBough: a TV show spotlighting entrepreneurs in the Midwest
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Congrats to this year's winners & nominees:
- @ConbodyNYC for pioneering a prison-inspired fitness movement
- @CTurlington's @EveryMomCounts for its rigorous focus on improvin maternal health
- David Roth & Associates' clever dating campaign for @JDate featuring coding grandmas
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Congrats to this year's winners & nominees:
- @DanSagalyn & his team at @PBSNewshour for a moving, urgent report on Veterans Struggling for a Diagnosis
- @EarHustleSq's intimate look at life behind bars
- @EncoreOrg and its $100K Encore Prize, recognizing entrepreneurs over 50
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Congrats to this year's winners & nominees:
- @CRAguh's ambitious venture @Everyone_On to bring high-speed low-cost Internet to rural US communities
- The @NewYorker's George Packer and his epic Unwinding
- @FT's @HannahKuchler on How Silicon Valley Discovered the Rest of America
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Congrats to our winners & nominees:
- @IamFastFreddy's bold, disruptive prison-focused startup @Pigeon_ly
- The Johnson Family, @TheJudgeHatchett & a groundbreaking lawsuit against @CedarsSinai highlighting maternal mortality
- @JerryZMuller's gripping book The Tyranny of Metrics
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Congrats to this year's winners & nominees:
- John Jeremiah Sullivan, Author & Editor at @TheParisReview and his gorgeously-written Pulphead
- @KristaTippett's Civil Conversations from @OnBeing
- Startup @GetMahmee creating an online community for expectant and new mothers
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Congrats to our winners & nominees:
- @MosiSecret's poetic tribute to The Magnificent Seven & elite Black schooling,
- @Gladwell's chronicle of educational dysfunction in his Revisionist History podcast
- MIT startup @Rendever re-enabling a trip down memory lane for the aged
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Congrats & thanks to:
- @RuralSourcing, which trains tech talent rurally, and gets American companies to outsource their IT work to local American teams
- @SarahKendzior, best-selling author of The View From Flyover
- @Service2School an innovative startup serving Veteran scholars
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Congrats & thanks to:
- @TeamCoworker, a mammoth online forum helping workers to improve their workplace
- Timothy Shenk, Editor of @DissentMag, for his prescient piece in @TheNation on Democracy's Revenge
- @Veterati prodividing career mentorship to current and former soldiers
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Our latest picks:
- The launch of @ThisChairRocks' groundbreaking Old School
- The valuable work of @First72Plus in guiding newly-released prisoners
- A death & a lawsuit against @CedarsSinai to benefit new mothers
+ Congrats to winner @SarahKendzior...
unexoticventures.com/radar
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Congratulations to this month's picks:
- Phenomenal reporting by @DanSagalyn, @NickSchifrin & @Hari of @Newshour on the struggle for Veterans just to breathe
- Gritty, unflinching chronicles from the Midwest by @GlobeandMail's award-winning @SarahKendzior
unexoticventures.com/radar
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A Midsummer break
and a review of our Unexotic Winners thus far...
Congrats to:
@Venture4America
@TheParisReview's JJ Sullivan and his Pulphead
@CTurlington's @EveryMomCounts
@NewYorker's George Packer and his Unwinding
@IamFastFreddy's @Pigeon_ly.
unexoticventures.com/radar
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Ladies & Gents, we have an Unexotic 1st:
our entire Radar this month is devoted to 1 pick --
The story of Frederick Hutson and his prison-launched startup, Pigeonly.
@Pigeon_ly @IAMFastFreddy
Congrats, man, and wishing you and your team every success.
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“Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is American renewal. Not just as a graduating class, but as a generation,” says Commencement speaker @SlaughterAM. #WashU18

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MUST READ piece by @MichaelRStrain of @AEI on business and "skills gaps":
1. Invest in training of lower paid workers
2. Hire based on skills, not pedigree (cites @OpptyatWork )
3. Raise wages
#MarketSolutions Nails it. cc: @business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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