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

Revolution

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. By default, Sweetgreen’s seasonal plant-based menu is 30% less carbon-intensive than the average American meal. So, what’s next for Sweetgreen?

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Pilot Operation of “PanTA-G Bus,” Self-driving Public Transportation, in Gyeonggi-do: Pangyo Techno Valley is Becoming an R&D Hub for Self-driving Technology

AsiaTechDaily

Register Gyeonggi-do is set to commence the pilot operation of its domestic public transportation service, the ‘Panta G Bus,’ which is fortified with self-driving technology, at Pangyo Techno Valley. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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After all, the only way to fill a gap is to identify it, and work collaboratively to address and overcome systemic barriers to better support small business success. Distance and transportation. Take for example what is happening with the Missouri Broadband Resource Rail.

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I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead.

A Smart Bear

For example, it was okay that early versions Google Docs had only 3% of the features of Microsoft Word, because Docs did a great job at what it was primarily designed for, which is simplicity and real-time collaboration. Zooming into one of our examples above, Snapchat took an SLC progression similar to the transportation metaphor.

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Burro raises $10.9M for autonomous produce field transport

TechCrunch

The beauty of this approach is that we can scale today around a ubiquitous pain point in the most labor-intensive areas of agriculture, while also allowing our platform to capture data and learn about many environments – providing the foundation for us to scale to countless other applications.”.

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Spirit of innovation demonstrated in land transport sector

NZ Entrepreneur

A number of startups and entrepreneurial initiatives working to address challenges in the transport sector have been approved for funding in round one of the Waka Kotahi Hoe ki angitū- Innovation Fund , with a second round of challenges now announced. The fund will run for two years, and its aim is to make transport greener and safer.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

At the centure of this quirky building that houses an advertising school , a yoga studio , and video production companies is Studiomates --"a collaborative workspace of designers, illustrators, bloggers, writers, and developers" run by Tina Eisenberg --perhaps better known as Swiss Miss. via DumboNYC.