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My Investment in Hungryroot: A Tasty Lesson in Products vs. Services

This is going to be BIG.

They do this through vertical integration and special packaging--and that's where the technical innovation comes in. By the time you get your food, you've gotten it days in advance of when you'd get your food if you were ordering from a service that preps it for you, enabling it to last longer in your fridge.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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MessageGears raises $62m to fuel innovation, global expansion

AsiaTechDaily

MessageGears intends to use the investment to accelerate the innovation of its technology platform, with an emphasis on bolstering its mobile channel capabilities, expanding its global presence, and opportunistically exploring acquisitions that align with its vision for the future.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they So within a matter of days post shelter-in-place, Bevy took everything they were already enabling offline and started applying those tools to running remote communities and meetings.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

Political candidates can give all the stump speeches they want, but ultimately, the prescription is simple (though not easy): Entrepreneurial innovation. America’s immigrants opened more than a quarter of all new businesses in 2011; per capita, they’re more than twice as likely to do so as people who were born here.

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New Funds, New Era

Andreessen Horowitz

My partner Marc saw the new world coming and wrote about it in 2011 in a piece called, “Software is Eating the World.” Finally, we would like to thank our amazing Limited Partners who have enabled us to grow and innovate tremendously over the past 15 years. Shortly after we started the firm, all that began to change.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Overall, we are very optimistic about construction robotics and hope to see more companies attempt to solve the issues in productivity with breakthrough technologies, as well as innovative business models.