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

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve spoken our goal of funding more ambitious project before and we’ve enlisted the research help of a Principal in our firm – Kevin Zhang , who has an interest in Agtech (agriculture technology). Their vision is to create technology and products for a world where food is grown in and around where people live.

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EO Members Share Entrepreneurial Trends for the New Year

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Rapid advancements in technology—including artificial intelligence, IoT technology and blockchain—make it crucial for entrepreneurs to stay informed about technological advancements. Be it a product or service, technology and digital tools add to enhanced reach, innovation and overall customer experience.

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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

Will they all be part of a movement to get a lot more conscious about our own ecological footprints, where our food comes from, and it's quality? Absolutely. This is a titanic shift--think PC, mobile. like, landscape changing, literally. An investor in Farmingo is investing in commerce.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. Most problems these days are business and design problems—technology is rarely the gating factor on innovation these days.

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Creating climate solutions with YLAI alumni: Nina Escamilla in Mexico 

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Früvethy applies freeze-drying technology to create better-for-you snacks made with locally sourced fruits and vegetables and other traditional Mexican ingredients. However, one of our main challenges is food waste, mainly associated with the first link in the chain with primary producers, for whom the impact is ecological and economical.

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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.

Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Yelp just showed its true colors: It’s not a startup anymore, and it will try to crush anyone that gets in its way—Microsoft 90’s style. That’s not the kind of place innovators tend to like to work.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

menagerie of creative entrepreneurs occupies the seven-story building, now known as the Metropolitan Exchange, or MEx, including biotechnologists, ecologically minded architects, organic fashion designers and even miniature-cupcake makers.