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Subscription carbon offsetting platform Ecologi hits $8M total raised, includes General Catalyst

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startup Ecologi , which uses the funds to plant 1 million trees every 10 days in places like Africa and Latin America, as well as doing things like protecting peatlands in Indonesia. In April, Ecologi closed a seed investment round of $5.75 That’s partly the thinking behind U.K. million (£4.05

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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Here’s my best attempt to shed some light on the most common misconceptions about building a company here in NYC: Misconception #1: There’s no money in NYC for startups… and the money that’s here isn’t smart or experienced money. Should they work on your “real time” web startup or write code that processes a million trades a minute?

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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

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Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. . It’s hard to grow enough food to meet these needs, not to mention in a sustainable way and in a world where water is increasingly in short supply.

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EO Members Share Entrepreneurial Trends for the New Year

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There is also a groundswell of small farm startups, especially in developing nations, where farmers such as 2022 GSEA Global Finalist Arnold Shoko can convert biowaste streams into feed and fertilizer. Opportunity for startups. As a fashionpreneur and strategist, I work closely with early-stage entrepreneurs and startups.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded.

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

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European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. According to official estimates, the number of new Swiss startups has skyrocketed by 700% since 1996. Native startups will need 25,000 Swiss Francs to open an LLC and 50,000 more to incorporate. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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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. The new owner isn't going to be putting any tech startups in the building--he's going to make the space more inhabitable for artists and their work. 55 Washington Street.