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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

It is a type of financing that investors can provide to startups and small businesses which are believed to have the potential for success in the long term. It is not always a financial transaction; sometimes it comes in the form of managerial or technical expertise. Due Diligence and Closing the Deal.

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Love And Giving Aren’t Green: Startups & Corporate Social Impact

YoungUpstarts

I cleaned parks in Brooklyn, served meals in soup kitchens, and mentored underprivileged youth on personal finance. Melissa Thompson left a burgeoning Wall Street career as a trader with Goldman Sachs to become a female pioneer in the world of technology. ” The amount of shared value we created far surpassed the $150 outlay.

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Green ketchup, bottled water for pets, airport security “action figures”, yogurt shampoo – there have been some pretty epic product failures over the years. These cycles are particularly pronounced in the technology industry, where rapid innovation leads to rapid product releases, and often to rapid failures. Samsung Galaxy Gear.

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Rusty Tweed Explores How Sustainability is Impacting the Construction Industry

The Startup Magazine

To this end, a number of commercial green buildings have been designed with features that promote workplace productivity and ambiance. With advances in technology, green buildings can also be built at fairly competitive prices. The cumulative cost impact often adds to lower building operation and corresponding maintenance cost.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow. Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats.

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VC Funding in 2020: What Investors Look for in Startups

ReadWriteStart

In the same vein, various technological innovations such as artificial intelligence have made VC funding easier and less biased. Well, now investors are desiring to have more say in the direct control of the company, particularly its finances and its compliance with corporate regulations (for example, the GDPR, with tech startups).

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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.