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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

Brightfarms , which got $4mm in venture capital, sets up indoor farms inside your local supermarket or on rooftops. Will they all be part of a movement to get a lot more conscious about our own ecological footprints, where our food comes from, and it's quality? Plovgh is working on something similar as well. Absolutely.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. How will you know who the investors are when one of your school-grown startups need capital? Same with students.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

The simple fact of the matter is that most startups seeking angel or vc capital just don’t receive it—and that’s just anywhere. It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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Why Yelp should pay attention to not shooting itself in the face (and what ripping off Foursquare and taking big money from Elevation mean)

This is going to be BIG.

Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Yelp just showed its true colors: It’s not a startup anymore, and it will try to crush anyone that gets in its way—Microsoft 90’s style. That’s not the kind of place innovators tend to like to work.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Ten years ago startups were unusual. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Arguably, this is the most interesting part of 2050. It proves that the team is committed to its vision beyond blog posts. The idea is to share that class as broadly as possible under an open license.

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