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Michael Hendrix

  • Special Advisor, Gov. Bill Lee
Nashville
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The Closing of the American City: A New Urban Agenda

The Closing of the American City: A New Urban Agenda

Values and Capitalism — We are at the dawn of the urban century. More Americans are living in cities than ever before. And yet, while recent years have brought about an urban renaissance in America, we are doing everything we can to turn off the lights.
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The Rise of Networked Tribal Politics - Michael Hendrix - Medium

The Rise of Networked Tribal Politics - Michael Hendrix - Medium

medium.com — We are witnessing the rise of networked tribal politics and the fall of traditional institutional systems. In a sense, politics is becoming like the internet.
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America Loves Food Trucks - Michael Hendrix - Medium

America Loves Food Trucks - Michael Hendrix - Medium

medium.com — Food trucks should be seen as additive, not subtractive from public life and private flourishing. With a better understanding of the regulatory burden on food trucks, America’s cities will be better equipped to encourage these roving innovators and their hungry customers.
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3 Mega-Trends Shaping American Entrepreneurship

3 Mega-Trends Shaping American Entrepreneurship

Arc Digital — The state of American entrepreneurship is improving, but worries remain over increasingly divided fortunes, according to a new study from the Kauffman Foundation. For the first time since the Great Recession, entrepreneurs can breathe a sigh of relief.
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From the Battlefield to the Boardroom - Arc Digital

From the Battlefield to the Boardroom - Arc Digital

Arc Digital — Conflicts arise in business as in every corner of human existence. When they do, rules and norms rush in. Just war theory in business ensures that while self-interest remains the rule, human flourishing maintains the end.
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Why 2016 Came Down to Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel

Why 2016 Came Down to Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel

medium.com — Whole Foods and Cracker Barrel are effective shorthand for America’s remarkable differences in voting preferences by density.
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On Gentrification

On Gentrification

medium.com — Gentrification is not a cut and dry matter of displacement. It is also about the changes in and fracturing of community. It is about wealth disparities no longer being between neighborhoods but within them. It is about the loss of social capital even for gains in physical or financial capital.
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The Missing American Worker

The Missing American Worker

medium.com — Roughly 10 million American men are "missing" from the workforce. They are in the prime of their careers from ages 25 to 54, yet do not hold a job and are not looking for one. Their ranks reflect a degree of disruption and social ill in this country that are unique in the developed world.
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The Surprising Truth About American Generosity

The Surprising Truth About American Generosity

medium.com — Who gives and gives well? Sociologists Patricia Snell Herzog and Heather E. Price lend their book American Generosity a rigorously analytical eye. They hold our country's charitable giving up to the mirror and keep turning it until they reveal every angle, explaining quantitatively and qualitatively the what, who, where, and why of generosity.
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What Does a Successful Startup Ecosystem Look Like?

What Does a Successful Startup Ecosystem Look Like?

medium.com — If you want to know what a successful startup ecosystem looks like, think of it as a roundtable meeting. In each chair sits the "node" for their network, from startups to government to corporates and so on. They have the relationships, not just in their city but in the region; their social capital directs the flows of financial and human capital.
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One Woman's Fight Against Hair-Brained Regulation

One Woman's Fight Against Hair-Brained Regulation

medium.com — Armstrong’s ambition was to build a business passing on her inherited love for braiding, and so she did. Until, one day, a notice arrived. It was addressed from the cosmetology licensing board of her home state in Mississippi. She was told she must cease operations immediately and undergo intensive training, or else. Melanie Armstrong chose to fight.
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What's the Secret to Successful Startup Hubs?

What's the Secret to Successful Startup Hubs?

medium.com — Prioritizing social networks and social capital suggests a policy of people over place. Growing startup ecosystems means enhancing connectivity, reducing barriers to people getting ahead, establishing navigable rules of the road, and empowering leaders in the community. Economic development becomes less about chasing big “wins” and more about nurturing a fluid and complex economy.
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14 Years of Funding Data Reveal America's Startup Hubs

14 Years of Funding Data Reveal America's Startup Hubs

medium.com — "Without geography, you're nowhere," goes the old saw. For startup hubs, this observation may be more true than we realized. A team of Harvard researchers analyzed and visualized 14 years of venture capital investments. They looked at where, to whom, and in what sectors some 57,000 deals took place.
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The Disrupted City

The Disrupted City

medium.com — Every city should be asking itself: Are we prepared for the next generation of technological growth?
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Childless Cities and the Future of the Economy

Childless Cities and the Future of the Economy

medium.com — Neither the suburb nor the city are entirely states of nature. They are the product of conscious choices. Therefore, we must consciously choose to make our cities open to everyone and closed to none.
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Innovation That Matters 2016

Innovation That Matters 2016

1776 — We are at the dawn of an extraordinary technological revolution and it is transforming every part of the U.S. economy. Innovation That Matters examines and ranks 25 cities’ readiness to capitalize on the inevitable shift to a digital economy.
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Evolving Cities for the Digital Economy

Evolving Cities for the Digital Economy

1776 — To thrive in the transition to a digital economy, cities need to develop the right types of knowledge and know-how in their companies and workers. This is not only accomplished through formal education and training, but through networks of people sharing information.
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Innovation That Matters

Innovation That Matters

1776.vc — What will it take for our nation’s cities to drive more startup activity that can transform the industries that matter most to society? In this study, we provide new perspective on this question through an in-depth look at entrepreneurial communities in eight U.S. cities. The purpose of our research is to provide a framework that city leaders can utilize to foster new innovations that improve the lives of local citizens.
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Inside Detroit's Rising Startup Culture

Inside Detroit's Rising Startup Culture

1776 — We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes - Detroit's motto. Detroit can sometimes feel like a city chasing its own shadow. The once mighty city aspires to reclaim some of its former glory, the memories of which, in admittedly depressed times, have sustained its people's pride and hope for a renaissance.
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What's Holding Silicon Valley Back?

What's Holding Silicon Valley Back?

1776 — What are the challenges facing San Francisco and Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem? Together with 1776, DC's global tech incubator and seed fund, we spent a day with the area's startup funders to find out. As more precious capital disappears into rent payments and government casts a wary eye at startup growth, some founders are beginning to wonder: Are we being blinded by our own success?
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Innovation in Austin Is Just Getting Started

Innovation in Austin Is Just Getting Started

1776 — Local Austin entrepreneurs see themselves as being just at the beginning stages of making their city a tech hub. Other cities may have more startups or more capital and talent, but few of them have Austin's combination, and even fewer have organized them quite so well.
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The Sharing Economy Is Coming to Your Apartment Building

The Sharing Economy Is Coming to Your Apartment Building

1776 — Do you live an apartment building? How well do you know your neighbors? Have you ever thought about how easy it should be to sell, borrow or trade items and services? Michael Hendrix of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation recently chatted with Greg Jaros, CEO of Spare to Share, to discuss the company's involvement in the "sharing economy."
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Making Friends with IBM's Watson in Austin

Making Friends with IBM's Watson in Austin

1776 — It’s all about that open data. Cities are sitting on a huge store of information. The question is, What are the data’s utility? Is it available, consistently released, and frequently accessed? IBM knows these questions all to well.
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Vibrancy and Growth in the Heart of Texas

Vibrancy and Growth in the Heart of Texas

1776.vc — Austin is weird. And I mean that in the best way.
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