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Innovative businesses that support local communities

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

YLAI Network members Juliana Nieva de Castillo from Tucumán, Argentina and Julio César Bueno Cruz from Cali, Colombia illustrate two forms of social innovation and community support through unique business concepts. This cost-savings approach to business is also reflected in her marketing strategy. Recycling and Design.

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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.

Whitney McNamara referred to as the “post that launched 1000 VCs”, but it was really meant to open up a dialogue between an innovative little company hyperfocused on an important piece of data—when people show up to venues—and a bigger company dependent on relationships with venues. Good luck hiring anyone innovative, too.

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Carbon accounting platform acquired by Sage as ClimateTech heats up

TechCrunch

Sage had previously stated it plans to support SMEs to get to net zero, and this acquisition appears to be part of their strategy. Bristol seems to be making a habit of Climate Tech, also producing Ecologi Zero , real-time carbon footprinting software for businesses.

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Hong Kong’s Brinc Launches Climate Tech Program to Support Early-Stage Startups in Carbon Dioxide Removal Solutions

AsiaTechDaily

In addition to its accelerator programs, Brinc offers investment services and distributed innovation strategies to support corporations in sourcing new startups and technologies. Headquartered in Hong Kong Brinc is a prominent global venture accelerator that operates 13 accelerator programs across seven countries.

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

TechCrunch

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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Why Black Friday Is Toxic for Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Lower business costs, more innovative strategies, a better reputation, and more new customers who value sustainability contribute to higher long-term profits. socially, ecologically, or economically.” Johan Olzon, Co-Founder of Soeder: “We want to inspire our customers to consume consciously. That is extremely important to us!

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