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

Revolution

Specifically, here’s what the founders brought to the table: Passion and Purpose: Fundamental to Sweetgreen’s reimagination of the fast-food system was a vision to build healthier communities?—?a something that sounds obvious today but was rare circa 2007. Loyal followers know to expect new menu drops and chef-driven collaborations.

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Reflections on the Origin Story of EO Global Leadership Academy (GLA)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It is a spirit that has contributed to the personal development of some of the world’s finest entrepreneurs making a true impact on companies, communities, and families across the globe. The Origins David Galbenski and I served on the EO Global Board together in 2007. I said that to him with someone specific in mind.

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The Venture Investment Guide: Insights from Enlight Venture’s Yongmin Kim’s Illustrious Career

AsiaTechDaily

An experienced investor, his journey in venture capital began in 2007, a tumultuous period with a global financial crisis. The goal is not merely to invest but to collaborate and achieve shared success. Despite the prevailing economic chaos, Mr. Kim embraced the challenge with fervor. ” Kim.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

2007 marked an important milestone for the Earth’s cities. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. The program was born out of the passion for and expertise around sustainable food among the Impact Hub King’s Cross community. A translocal collaboration is born. It happened without us realizing at the time. Feeding the City.

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Playbook, which aims to be the ‘Dropbox for designers,’ raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund

TechCrunch

But these days, sharing assets is much more collaborative and there’s different kinds of parties involved such as freelancers and contractors. In March, Playbook opened a beta version of its product to the design community and got about 1,000 users in two months. Image Credits: Playbook.

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Creating Global Access to Medical Innovation: Ruth Atherton, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

OurCrowd

That’s not to say many didn’t see it coming: WHO published a strategic action plan for pandemic influenza in 2007 and in 2014 Bill Gates, representing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, presented a TED Talk about his anticipation of both a pandemic and societal lack of preparation for such an international medical crisis.

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PetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry

Jason Malki

He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009. Our team works with local animal services organizations and municipalities to build a custom identification tag program tailored to meet the needs of the community. Tom told me about his amazing idea to start a company in the pet technology space.