ACTivists for Change: Members join forces in a letter to the White House, urging balanced, startup-friendly reforms While national conversations about the H-1B program often focus on large companies, our members live a different reality. These teams are lean, product-driven, and often hire for highly specialized roles where [...]
Innovation, Simplification, and Competitiveness As the European Commission’s new Digital Omnibus proposals land in Brussels, promising to ‘simplify’ AI, data, and digital rules, critics warn of a potential rollback. In parallel, work on the 28th regime and the European Innovation Act is framed as a way to reduce red [...]
Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age-verification and parental-consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and costly patchwork for startups and independent developers. And, as we have seen in other efforts to use age verification methods, the very [...]
EU ACTivists for Change: Members join forces to make the Single Market work for startups Across Europe, startups, scaleups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are building world-class products, but their growth path is still more complicated than it should be. EU startups face 27 different systems for incorporation, [...]
Small business developers have long warned that certain competition proposals can unintentionally weaken privacy and security protections for users. This Congress, the issue is back: the App Store Freedom Act (ASFA) and the Open App Markets Act (OAMA). Both bills are pending in Congress, where proponents insist they will [...]
