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One social entrepreneur and activist’s mission to defend the environment and indigenous communities in Venezuela

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2017 YLAI Fellow Victor Rujano Bautista is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS), an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. By Bryce Kelly.

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LandscapeHub Raises $9M Series A

HPA

” Founded in 2017, LandscapeHub has experienced impressive growth over the past few years with an increased number of users and supplier organizations to expand the availability of landscape supply to 17 markets in the United States (and counting). Read more about the round in the press release and Chicago Inno.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. 2017 Relativity6 AI for Insurance Advisers, Brokers and Agents helps enable your sales and accounts teams to service and retain clients smarter. management.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The data is for Slush 100 2015–2017. It served us well in the past, yet it’s time to adapt and change, or eventually perish — if the rapid degradation of our ecology is of any guidance. Most pitches are repetitive. You need a real story to stand out. This is called post hoc rationalization and we’re fundamentally hardwired for it.

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How to avoid greenwashing your business

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Victor Rujano Bautista, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS) , an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. The organization ??defends

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

“We decided we needed to make the cut at some point and we decided that putting together 60% of the GDP in Spain was a clear direction of the sectors that we could be using in order to accelerate the change that we want to see,” says Polo.

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