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Betting Beyond the Bowl: Investing in Sweetgreen Was Always About More Than Salad

Revolution

When Revolution Growth first invested in Sweetgreen in 2013, the whisperings of food and wellness were present but sparse, and the bulk of lunchtime options focused more on convenience than ingredients. But the company’s promise to the planet extends to sourcing, growing practices, transportation, and infrastructure.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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I wanted someone who was experimenting with computer controlled LEDs as an art form to feel part of the community as well--which is why I started referring to it as the "Innovation Community". 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.

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Bill DeBlasio's Uber targeting is in danger of making NYC a tech joke

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They could have created a reasonable, nuanced set of rules that allows me to rent my place out when I'm not there, like the four times a year I'm out in San Francisco trying to convince valley VCs to invest here, to someone who needs it. Well, what are the chances of that given our anti-innovation policies regarding these two companies?

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Why We Think B2B Crowdsourced Logistics Will Be a Big Hit

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More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. He immediately started meeting with every eCommerce business and has a few themes on where he thinks innovation at the brand level will come.

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Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda

TechCrunch

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups. We are focusing on investments where we believe that Google could add value,” the managing director said in October.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us. If a society shuns people for TRYING you discourage people from creating truly breakthrough innovation out of fear of failure. I’d love even 0.5%

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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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