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Betting Beyond the Bowl: Investing in Sweetgreen Was Always About More Than Salad

Revolution

an industry I deemed “ ripe for disruption ”?—?in But the company’s promise to the planet extends to sourcing, growing practices, transportation, and infrastructure. Loyal followers know to expect new menu drops and chef-driven collaborations. What did we see in the then-regional salad company? So, what’s next for Sweetgreen?

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

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He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As It’s something any public transportation rider in New York City intuitively understands—buses are more efficient and cheaper means of moving people by all measurements such as cost and energy.

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Freight Tech Startup GoodShip Raises $5M Seed Round Co-Led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures to Bring Enriched Analytics and Actionability to Transportation Procurement

American Entrepreneurship

NASHVILLE— GoodShip , a collaborative cloud-based analytics and transportation procurement platform for shippers, announced a $5M seed round today. Human relationships are the most crucial links in any supply chain,” said Kristy Brutsman, Director at Armstrong Transport. The raise brings GoodShip’s total funding to $7.4M

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The 5 Types of Entrepreneurs You Need on Your Startup’s Team

StartupNation

Ideas are the critical spark in the first stages of a startup: Ideas for a new product, for a disruptive service or engaging customer experience. Two giant firms created by Outsiders who had no experience in hospitality and transportation, but brought design, logistics, dispatch, and mega platforms to disrupt the hotel and taxi industries.

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Revolutionizing the Aviation Supply Chain: An Interview with Tia (Tulika) Dayal Considine, Founder…

Jason Malki

She has worked with companies from all sectors, including Transportation, Telecom, and Manufacturing companies to guide their Supply Chain and Inventory strategies. Every day, Im surrounded by a passionate team that shares a common vision of disrupting an industry.

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Future First: Finding Opportunity in Global Challenges

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Climate change from a hotter planet will push the private sector to accelerate solutions in clean energy, manufacturing, and transportation. Most of the things that we purchase and consume are produced by different businesses collaborating with each other somehow. These are certain to affect our global economy for a long time. .

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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

TechCrunch

This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. We’re disrupting boring, inefficient and outdated diversity training through real talk and interactive gaming.

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