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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. a philosophy evident in every aspect of their business.

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A Seed Fund Grows in Brooklyn: Announcing Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

By some estimates, 50-60% of New York’s startup community lives in Brooklyn--and at Etsy it’s as high as 80%. I will be working hard to help it reach that potential, while continuing the work I’ve been doing for NYC’s tech community as a whole for the last seven plus years. Brooklyn is my home.

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Small Groups and the Long Game at #SXSW

This is going to be BIG.

In 2007, I met Rob May for the first time in person at the first SXSW I ever went to. That breakfast would lead to me hiring Hilary to work at my startup, Hilary deciding to stay in NYC fulltime, co-founding hackNY, and just generally being a great community advocate for science and tech in NYC. Just breakfast. No big party.

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Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

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Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%. On the podcast Breaking Down Barriers , Dell Gines, senior community development advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, explained: “You can’t say you’re an ecosystem builder if you’re not an inclusive ecosystem builder.

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Paul Graham and The World Out There

This is going to be BIG.

YCombinator had a great run from 2007 through early 2009 investing at a time when there weren''t nearly as many seed funds and accelerators as there are now. You could see that conversation happening: "Hey, let''s reach out to the community. YC''s best investing days may be behind it. They picked up Airbnb, Heroku and Dropbox.

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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

Both Sides of the Table

When Troy and Lady Gaga were introduced the market had been in a free fall from the financial crisis of 2007-09 and Troy had had some setbacks professionally while Lady Gaga was sleeping on her grandmother’s couch in West Virginia, having just been dropped by Def Jam Records. Same with Gaga. It was us planting seeds in every place.”

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Optimize for authentic relationships, not bluster

This is going to be BIG.

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. They're awesome and I'd show up to hear them speak anywhere.