Kyle Westaway

My most recent article on PPP loan forgiveness.

First Look at PPP Loan Forgiveness Application The SBA has failed to give clear guidance on the details of loan forgiveness, and this has created confusion amongst entrepreneurs. This new application brings some clarity.

Just wrote my first article on Forbes about the challenges entrepreneurs are facing with the EIDL application process. Have you applied? Love to hear your thoughts / comments.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylewestway/2020/05/01/why-entrepreneurs-think-the-eidl-is-a-black-hole/

Why Entrepreneurs Think The EIDL Is A Black Hole The Small Business Administration (SBA) has a loan program to respond to natural disasters called Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).

If you’re interested in building a good company and a meaningful life, you should subscribe to the Real Good Business podcast by and . The most recent episode asks the question: What does COVID-19 make possible? talks about her company’s pivot to mask making. They were kind enough to invite me on for a short cameo about and more importantly, with the magic of editing, they even make me sound smart! Check it out.

Walking across the bridge in Selma, the starting point of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression, and were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. 📸

Bullet hole in the window of the Jackson MS office of the NAACP from the 1960’s when Medgar Evars was the Field Secretary there. He was a humble and resolute leader. He worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, which included the enforcement of voting rights. He was assassinated at his home a few blocks away in 1963 by Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist and Klansman, while JFK was giving his speech on civil rights.

Hollis Watkins is an activist in Mississippi who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement activities in the state during the 1960s. He wrote and still to this day sings many of the songs of the movement. He became a member and organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961, was a county organizer for 1964's "Freedom Summer", and assisted the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to unseat the regular Mississippi delegation from their chairs at the 1964 Democratic Party national convention in Atlantic City. He founded Southern Echo, a group that gives support to other grass-roots organizations in Mississippi. He also is a founder of the Mississippi Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement. @ Jackson, Mississippi

The final installment of the “BE” series is Brandan Bmike Odums first solo show as a visual artist. Studio BE is a 35,000 sq ft warehouse in the bywater neighborhood of New Orleans, LA. The show “Ephemeral Eternal” is a calumniation of everything he learned from Project BE and Exhibit BE as well as exploring his truth as an artist. It was an ambitious project, 6 months in the making, most of the work done in spray paint. @ New Orleans, Louisiana

Weekend Briefing No. 256
- Dark Side of the Moon
- Startups & Rock Bands
- Discipline > Vision
- Tinder @ 5
- The Disease of More
- The Best Way to Learn Anything
- Fav Facts

Weekend Briefing No. 256 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend and welcome to 2019! Here are some tunes to kick off the year. Also, I’ll be in Boston for most of January. If you’re around, hit me up. Prime Numbers 45 MM – Netflix reports that its latest flagship show, ‘Bird Box’, was viewed by 45m people. 921,000 – Japanese wo...

Weekend Briefing No. 250 - https://weekendbriefing.com/250
- The End of the Beginning
- Feeling the Stones
- Geno-economists
- We Are Never Getting Back Together
- Fake Fingerprints
- Teens & S*x
- Peak Range

Weekend Briefing No. 250 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. This is the 250th week in a row that I’ve sent out the Weekend Briefing. What started out with just a simple email to friends has grown. This week we just crossed 25,000 subscribers! I’m grateful for your support and engagement. Because of you, I’m excited to write ever...

Weekend Briefing No. 249 - https://weekendbriefing.com/249
- What is AI?
- S*x & Mobility
- M-Pesa Goes Global
- Less is Better
- Harari in the Valley
- Startup Valuation
- In Pursuit of the Interesting

Weekend Briefing No. 249 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. I spent Thursday afternoon at PayPal this week for Village Capital’s FinTech Accelerator, I must say I was impressed with the companies I saw there. Also, for those who are interested, check out the full conversation between myself and Susan McPherson on Profit & Purpose at...

Weekend Briefing No. 248 - https://weekendbriefing.com/248
- When No One Retires
- Missing Millennial Men
- A (Unsettled)
- Stop Asking for a Carbon Tax
- FDA for Algorithms
- Impact @ Scale
- AI Trainers

Weekend Briefing No. 248 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. It was great to see some of you at The Atlantic’s Power of Purpose summit this week. If you weren’t there, here’s a short clip of me talking about innovation at Nike. It’s been a big week in our community. Friends have won a seat in US Congress, raised a fund …

Weekend Briefing No. 247 - https://weekendbriefing.com/247
- Job Creation
- Design ROI
- Disrupting Law
- Eudaimonia Machine
- Seeking Alpha
- Optimism
- 30 Lessons from 30 Years

Weekend Briefing No. 247 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. I’ll be speaking at The Atlantic’s Power of Purpose Summit on Thursday. If you’re attending, please say hello. Enjoy some fresh tunes on my November playlist. Prime Numbers 600,000 – Air pollution caused the premature deaths of 600,000 children in 2016, according to a...

Weekend Briefing No. 246 - https://weekendbriefing.com/246
- Data Industrial Complex
- Ubernomics
- Deal Room Winner
- Middle Class in Silicon Valley
- A Farm Grows in Brooklyn
- AI Ethics
- On Writing

Weekend Briefing No. 246 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. After a couple weeks on the road, it’s good to be back in Brooklyn. Thanks so much to everybody who reached out. I had a blast hanging out with readers in Mexico City and San Francisco. Y’all are an impressive and fun bunch. Prime Numbers 1 B – Small satellites are …

Weekend Briefing No. 245 - https://weekendbriefing.com/245
- More Than Me
- Silicon Valley & Saudi Arabia
- Holacracy
- Housing as A Service
- Message in a Purse
- Bill Gates on Paul Allen
- On Aging

Weekend Briefing No. 245 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend and hola from Mexico City! I just spent a week at the Opportunity Collaboration – big shout out to all my OC friends new and old! I’m hanging out in Mexico City this weekend. If you want to follow along with me as I explore the city, follow me on Instagram …

Weekend Briefing No. 244 - https://weekendbriefing.com/244
- NEOM
- 1.5
- Future of Work
- Create Masterpieces
- Code of Ethics
- Paul Romer
- Mr. Durable

Weekend Briefing No. 244 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. I’m flying out this weekend to attend the Opportunity Collaboration, then a stopping over in Mexico City and finally onto SF for SOCAP. If you are going to be at any of those places, or know anybody I should meet while I’m there, drop me a line. Love to meet you …

Weekend Briefing No. 243 - https://weekendbriefing.com/243
- Thirst
- There Will Be No Miracles Here
- To Shake The Sleeping Self
- Hard Work & Luck
- Solid
- Auto-automation
- Social Network of Brains

Weekend Briefing No. 243 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. October is off to a bang! Not one, not two, but three of my friends – Scott Harrison, Casey Gerald and Jedidiah Jenkins – launched books this week. I’m proud of each of their personal journeys. I read all three of them this week and I’m impressed by the fact that …

Weekend Briefing No. 242 - https://weekendbriefing.com/242
- Free Solo
- Giving Back?
- Shadow Contact
- Islamic Impact Investing
- Geothermal Fracking
- Innovation on Boards
- Happiness

Weekend Briefing No. 242 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 4:55 – Kosmic is the first human to beat Super Mario Bros in 4 minutes and 55 seconds, a time so good it is less than a second slower than the best tool-assisted speedrun. 3:56:00 – It took Alex Honnold 3 hours, 56 minutes to complete the first-ever free …

Weekend Briefing No. 241 - https://weekendbriefing.com/241
- Blockchain & the Earth
- Geography of Extreme Poverty
- ADAP
- Beyond the White Savior Complex
- Charging Robo-taxis
- Crisis in the System
- Sabbath

Weekend Briefing No. 241 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 2:01:39 – Eliud Kipchoge ran 2:01:39 at the Berlin Marathon to break the world record, becoming the first person in history to go under 2:02 on a record-eligible course. Kipchoge’s average pace per mile: 4:38.4 28 – This nurse helped save his life. 28 year...

Weekend Briefing No. 240 - https://weekendbriefing.com/240
- Slow Growth Unicorn
- Algorithmic Justice League
- Blockchain & SMEs
- Glomar Explorer
- Sitzfleisch
- Big Decisions

Weekend Briefing No. 240 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. I’m super excited to announce the launch of my new briefing – Crypto Esq. The pace of innovation in the cryptocurrency, blockchain and smart contract world is tremendous. As usual, innovation is outpacing regulation. So, this email briefing is my humble attempt to underst...

Weekend Briefing No. 239 - https://weekendbriefing.com/239
- Why Americans Spend So Much on Healthcare
- Swarm
- SOCAP Deal Room
- Brick & Mortar Resurgence
- Indefinite Flight
- Enduring Love

Weekend Briefing No. 239 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 1T – Tuesday, Amazon’s market value briefly topped $1T, making them the second company in the world to hit 13 figures (Apple passed the mark just a month ago). 1,570 – There are 1,570 miles of elevator shafts in New York City, almost double the miles of su...

Weekend Briefing No. 238 - https://weekendbriefing.com/238
- Fake Change
- An Elite Charade?
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- "Meat"
- Making Ends Meet
- The New-Fashioned Summer Job
- Logging Off

Weekend Briefing No. 238 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the long weekend! Sorry for the empty email this morning, we had a bit of a technical glitch. Anyhow, there are some good reads here, so I hope you take the time to leisurely read this holiday weekend. I’m also trying a new section called . I get to work with some pretty …

Weekend Briefing No. 237 - https://weekendbriefing.com/237
- Accountable Capitalism
- Bondi Bond
- Africa, Ownership & Blockchain
- Hacking the Market
- InstaNovel
- Feather Underground
- Marshmallows & Success

Weekend Briefing No. 237 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the Weekend. Prime Numbers 3,453 – At the close of trading on Wednesday, Wall Street set the record for the longest Bull Market in history – 3,453 days in a row. 8 – 8 of the top 50 most populated cities in the world are in China. 6 – A study shows that …

Weekend Briefing No. 236 - https://weekendbriefing.com/236
- Mega
- Anti-Mega
- Best of Intentions
- Gig
- Ethical OS
- CRISPR Barcodes
- Id of Tech

Weekend Briefing No. 236 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 72,000 – Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, a record number that reflects a rise of around 10% since 2016. 2053 – 2053 nuclear explosions have taken place between 1945 and 1998. This time lapse video begins with the Manhattan Project’s...

Weekend Briefing No. 235 - https://weekendbriefing.com/235
- Ontario is No Longer Basic
- Grab & Go
- Death of the American Dream
- Too Good to Be True?
- How to Make a Hit
- Learning to Pray
- The Three-Day Effect

Weekend Briefing No. 235 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Hello from Iceland. I’m enjoying some time in nature and off the grid (see the Three-Day Effect below). Thanks for weighing in on what series I should listen to while driving through Iceland, the majority of you all selected the Lord of the Rings! Prime Numbers 1 T – Appl...

Weekend Briefing No. 234 - https://weekendbriefing.com/234
- Designer Babies
- Purpose-Driven Burritos
- Mirrortocracy
- Rocketwoman
- S+R=G
- Confident, Connected, Committed, Courageous
- Let It Go

Weekend Briefing No. 234 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Cheerio from London. I’m in London for my cousin’s wedding. On my way back I’m spending a week in Iceland. As I’m driving around the country, I’m contemplating what series I should listen too: Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia? Cast your...

Weekend Briefing No. 233 - https://weekendbriefing.com/233
- Water on Mars!
- E-Commerce in Rural China
- What Blockchain Can't Do
- Fukushima & Wine
- S*x, Intimacy & Meaning
- Second-Order Thinking
- Get To

Weekend Briefing No. 233 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 1 M – With the situation in Venezuela deteriorating faster than expected, the IMF has unveiled a severe prognosis: hyperinflation is poised to reach an annualized rate of 1 million percent by year’s end. 1 M – Waymo (Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle company...

Weekend Briefing No. 232 - https://weekendbriefing.com/232
- B Corp Performance
- Facial Recognition in Schools
- McKinsey & Co(rruption)
- Jake @ The ESPYs
- Profit & Purpose
- Don't Follow Your Passion
- Habits

Weekend Briefing No. 231 - https://weekendbriefing.com/231
- Moonshot Factory
- Mobility Monopoly
- Single Use
- Preparing Our Kids
- CBD Beer
- How to Create Art that Lasts
- Urgency Effect

Weekend Briefing No. 231 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. It’s good to be back home in Brooklyn. I wanted to apologize for a bad link last week. The most clicked on story was about how Jerry Seinfeld wrote the Pop Tart joke, but I embedded the wrong link. My bad… too many tabs open at once. So, here’s the link. …

Weekend Briefing No. 230 - https://weekendbriefing.com/230
- Drones v. Fireworks
- CRISPR
- Quantum Computing
- ICO Boom
- The Middle
- Responding to Spam
- The Pop Tart Joke

Weekend Briefing No. 230 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Hello from Tennessee where I’m spending time with my family on the lake. First of all, I wanted to say thanks. I got a ton of encouraging responses to last week’s briefing on unplugging. You’ll see some below in the Feedback Loop section. This week is a different (and h...

Weekend Briefing No. 229 - https://weekendbriefing.com/229
- Unplugging
- Concern & Control
- Reflection
- Elimination
- Minimalism
- Sabbatical
- Pitch

Weekend Briefing No. 229 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Χαίρετε (hello) from the Greek Island of Paros. Ok… real talk, as you’re reading this, I actually am on a beach in Paros. But I wrote this briefing last week from my office in Brooklyn. A few times a year I take a week or two to completely unplug, relax and …

Weekend Briefing No. 228 - https://weekendbriefing.com/228
- Valuations, Capital & Talent
- Taxes Online
- SOCAP
- Drones
- Streaming & Vinyl
- Food to Fashion
- Finding Joy

Weekend Briefing No. 228 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 84.2 B – Startup funding reached a record decade-long high in 2017, with $84.2 billion in funding raised over the course of the year. 13.2 B – 2017 was the first year that debit card payments – totaling 13.2 billion pounds – surpassed cash payments in th...

Weekend Briefing No. 227 - http://weekendbriefing.com/227
- From Thin Air
- Drone Delivery
- Social Impact ETF
- Golden Rules of Leadership
- How To Talk To Children
- Effort & Reward
- X-Ray Vision

Weekend Briefing No. 227 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 1T – A trillion photos are taken every year on iPhones. 2B – E-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise around $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to multiple sources. This would be just weeks after it raised $150 million at a $1...

Weekend Briefing No. 226 - http://weekendbriefing.com/226
- Flat Earth
- Transportation Economics
- Chinese Reserves
- Won't You Be My Neighbor?
- Everyday Low-Priced College
- Price's Law
- Generocity

Weekend Briefing No. 226 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. I hope that summer is off to a good start for you. I’m writing this briefing poolside at the William Vale Hotel in Brooklyn. Not a bad way to spend a day. Prime Numbers 85 – What’s popular with the kids these days? 85% use YouTube, 72% use Instagram, 69% use …

Weekend Briefing No. 225 - http://weekendbriefing.com/225
- Internet Trends
- Time Well Spent
- Google D.O.D.
- Startup Business Planning
- Racing the Rain
- Big Rocks + Small Rocks
- Carpenter + Gardener

Weekend Briefing No. 225 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Thanks to everybody who participated in the Reply All poll last week. See the results of the vote in the Feedback Loop section below. Here’s my June playlist. Enjoy! Prime Numbers 187 – 187 things blockchain is supposed to fix. 22 – The 22 best national parks to escape ...

Weekend Briefing No. 224 - http://weekendbriefing.com/224
- GDPR! OMG!
- Refugees as Customers
- Young & Innovative
- Landing VC $
- Books
- On Time, Money, Happiness
- Rekognition

Weekend Briefing No. 224 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Happy Memorial Day! This weekend I’m experimenting with a new section called Reply All. I’ll simply ask a question related to an article in the briefing to get your feedback in the form of one multiple choice question. So, cast your vote and let me know what you think abo...

Is your startup GDPR compliant? I wrote a post to get you up to speed on what's relevant. Hope it's helpful. Feel free to DM me with any questions. https://westaway.co/gdpr

GDPR FOR U.S. STARTUPS - WESTAWAY WHAT IS GDPR? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an updated privacy law for the digital age. At its core,...

Weekend Briefing No. 223
- Millennials on Business
- Facebook's Blockchain Team
- Kenya in Space
- Solar Power on NYC Public Housing
- Platforms vs. Aggregators
- Maintaining Sibling Relationships
- Lynn Stout

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Weekend Briefing No. 223 - Weekend Briefing Welcome to the weekend. Prime Numbers 6,900 – Mario Salcedo has spent the last 6,900 nights on a cruise ship. In 1997, he quit his corporate job, packed a suitcase and quietly disappeared from the lives of his friends and family to pursue a new life on the open water. 64 – Millennials display yo...