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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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It's a lot more lucrative to convert a warehouse into a condo building--especially if it's anywhere near the city--but it's those areas where innovators are creating economic opportunity as well, and where they need commercial space to thrive. 33 Flatbush.

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

TechCrunch

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. “There are 5.9

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Life of Purpose: Madison Bachman Followed Her Passion to Research Baboons

StartupNation

Out of that setback, though, an opportunity arose. The organization embraces innovation, education, ecological research, and natural landscape restoration. One day, Bachman was observing the baboons out in the crop fields when suddenly a local farmer began shooting at the troop. “As

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Why Black Friday Is Toxic for Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

This is even more surprising when you understand the importance of finding the optimal price: It’s a powerful lever that defines your brand’s positioning and acquisition opportunities. socially, ecologically, or economically.” It has to be a self-service offering. That is extremely important to us!

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Are they making an educated bet or gambling? These memos often integrate the traditional components of a founder’s pitch, and blend it together with a deal champion’s observations on the opportunity of investing into the company — as well as the risks that come with it. Or are they just going through the motions to please a VC?

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience. Achieving the wow factor, our facility is literally a smile factory using new ways to gamify skydiving and immerse guests in parachute simulations amongst educational skydiving museum exhibit.

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