Engine released the 2024 Startup Policy Playbook, to help give members of the startup ecosystem—startup founders and employees, investors, and support organizations—an overview of the policy conversations happening this year and how they can get involved in amplifying the startup voice.
Startup founders are busy people. They’re running businesses, managing small teams, raising funds, and doing the actual work of building new and innovative things. It’s no wonder they’re not also constantly tracking and engaging in policymaking in D.C. But their perspective should be—and is—incredibly important as policymakers consider technology, Internet, and entrepreneurship policy. Policy impacts everything from how a startup can raise money, to whether a startup can hire the talent it needs, to when a startup can expand to global markets, and everything in between. Those conversations are happening whether or not startups are at the table, and startup voices would help guide policy debates towards productive outcomes.
Engine’s Startup Policy Playbook covers the main federal policy areas impacting the startup ecosystem—artificial intelligence, capital access, connectivity, platform issues, patents, privacy, talent, tax, trade, and how to advance equity in the ecosystem—and acts as a guide on the policymaking process providing ways for startups to get involved. Read the Playbook here, and email advocacy@engine.is if you’re interested in learning more and making your voice heard in D.C.
Read our playbook here.
