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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

Brightfarms , which got $4mm in venture capital, sets up indoor farms inside your local supermarket or on rooftops. 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? Plovgh is working on something similar as well. Absolutely.

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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. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Ok, I think I’ve said enough.

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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.

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. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. Just because there are a lot of startups living off of a certain ecology in a city doesn’t mean you can’t build a different kind of company in that place. I was there, too. They’re all doing pretty well.

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Arguably, this is the most interesting part of 2050. It proves that the team is committed to its vision beyond blog posts. The idea is to share that class as broadly as possible under an open license.

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

TechCrunch

I really wish that the business case for social and ecological startups will finally be proven (kind of like Oatly showed with the Blackstone investment). Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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