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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

For those that don’t know, I live in downtown Oakland which has been one of the protest flashpoints. Please understand, Black people are exhausted, angry, afraid, hopeful, and grieving -- all at the same time. On Friday night, the Target near my house, which is where I go to get the majority of my essentials, was looted and set on fire.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. So what are we going to do?

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Cannabis Entrepreneurs Coming to Austin

Austin Startup

Central Texas founders and investors will want to catch the ACE opening session at 10:00 am on Thursday, April 19. The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas).

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Green Austin! April 19–20 Cannabis Event

Austin Startup

Said another way, these changes offer some tremendous opportunities in the increasingly legal cannabis market for founders and startups with innovative and original entrepreneurial ideas. In 2017, this business was estimated to be worth $7 billion and had a growth rate of close to 30 percent.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round. . - Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. -

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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

Joining me in the investment is fellow Brooklyn native, Mitch Kapor , as well as KEC Holdings and Stickerbrush—but this wasn’t an easy round for Founder Raul Gutierrez to close. Another major factor in my decision to invest was that Raul was working out of Studiomates , a creative co-working space built by Tina Roth Eisenberg.

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