I’ve been taking some time off this fall and spring to work on a mid-career program, studying AI and disinformation and the way they affect our economy and society. And, I’m working on a couple of books. But I got a message recently from a friend from Bethlehem, someone I met while I was reporting on […]
Editor’s Note
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Welcome to New Builders Dispatch!
We report on and advocate for the founders and innovators making a difference in their communities. We focus on telling the stories of underrepresented founders, through the written word and through events. And we’re broadening to cover the innovative companies and people in the up-and-coming smaller cities in the middle of the United States. If you […]
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Editor’s Note: One Big Fallacy That Gets In The Way Of Gun Law Reform
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: This week, we have stories about the latest trend in the diary milk market, A2. There is innovation in cow milk, too, and a story about a resilient baker in Lawrence, Mass., as well as a story about a key product small businesses should look for from their […]
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Editor’s Note: The Small Business Finance System Is Collapsing
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: We have two stories this week about trailblazing women: one from Texas who is helping moms re-enter the workforce with a proprietary algorithm, and another living in Rochester, N.Y., who owns a cannabis testing lab. The Small Business Finance System Is Collapsing There are fewer than 5,000 banks […]
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The Unreported Country
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Our stories this week: Using the First Amendment, lounges, bars and restaurants in Nashville and Memphis are fighting legislation in Tennessee that would criminalize drag shows. And we have a venture spotlight on VESTHer, a woman-owned VC firm in Oklahoma. The Unreported Country The national business media is […]
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Editor’s Note: One Guiding Principle for Bank Regulators
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: When I started Times of E, it was with the idea that big media often misses what’s happening in the world of small business. There aren’t enough reporters in the Middle of America anymore – and data always lags the real world. The big media missed the story […]
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Cybersecurity Policy and Self-Censorship
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: The Biden Administration released its cybersecurity policy last week. It shifts the responsibility for cybersecurity explicitly from individuals and small businesses to big tech companies, from Microsoft to Meta (and many more). One line reads, “In a free and interconnected society, protecting data and assuring the reliability of critical systems […]
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Editor’s Note: Rise of The Nice
About 10 years ago, there was genuine debate in Silicon Valley about whether you had to be an asshole to succeed. Silicon Valley was drawing a lot of its formulation of how the business world should be from libertarian thinking, which dominated economic ideas since the 1970s. By the late 2000s, this had evolved into […]
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Editor’s Note: Nepo Babies Have Unfair Advantages. The Question Is What They Do With Them.
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: When I was preparing this newsletter, news broke that the U.S. government had spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon over Montana. (I wrote about the drumbeat of war with China last month). Is China spying on the ballistic missiles buried in the Great Plains? A military power tends to […]
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Editor’s Note: A Surprise Nuclear Buildup Is One Sign Of How Little We Know China
A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride I came back from the holiday break with tons of energy, and hope you did, too. I did a lot of yoga during the down time, I’m six days into dry January and I got a hard-earned “B” in a cyberoperations class I took at Johns Hopkins this […]
