“Government needs ideas like it’s never needed them before,” said retired Representative Tom Davis (VA) at Friday’s Reboot America Summit presented by StartUp DC.
“You can’t start any speech this week without talking about the political situation in 
Washington,” he admitted. “We spent billions of dollars in this campaign and we’ve got gridlock — the same players… Moving forward, government is going to be forced to do more with less.”
And it was this idea of “big crazy disruptive innovation” (per StartUp DC’s Evan Burfield) that led to the creation of the entrepreneurial conference: a chance for business owners and leaders to focus on reinventing our lives as citizens, aka “Rebooting America.”
Pulling together policy and pragmatic heavyweights like former U.S. Chief of Technology
Aneesh Chopra, Senator Mark Warner, VC Steve Case, and dozens of other tech and trendsetters/solvers, Reboot America started a conversation on consumerizing the public sector and boosting startups through public policy, and even included a pitch competition won by TroopSwap.
Here, Warner talks about the entrepreneurial opportunities provided by the fiscal cliff… sort of:
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