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The Freedom To Innovate

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. In my testimony, I explained to the DFS staff that the difference between the US and China is that the US respects the freedom to innovate: REMINDER: ANYTHING THAT CHINA BANS, INVEST IN!

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Innovation Through Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Focus on Growth and Innovation. For the future, focus on business model innovation. If your business has taken a beating given the sector that you are in, is it possible to innovate out of this crisis? Primarily, there are three levels of innovation: incremental, sustaining and disruptive.

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Innovating education and gender equality in Mexico

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Innovating education and gender equality in Mexico “Education is transformation. In 2014, Frissia started the First Leadership Center at a university in Mexico. In 2014, I was a professor at a university, and I started the First Leadership Center because I saw the vast need to channel energy into students’ needs.

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AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund

TechCrunch

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Horowitz founded AMP in 2014 after earning his Ph.D. from Caltech.

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Citi Foundation’s Inaugural Global Innovation Challenge Now Open for Nonprofits

American Entrepreneurship

Upon learning the import of the study, the Citi Foundation announced its first-ever Global Innovation Challenge to address food security. The Foundation’s goal is to help scale the role of nonprofits around the world to support their efforts of developing innovative solutions to improve food security. million meals on behalf of U.S.

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Crypto startup Ledger teams up with Cathay Innovation to launch $110M sector fund

TechCrunch

Cathay Innovation is hoping to secure the bag in a new investment partnership with a company that secures crypto assets. Denis Barrier, co-founder of Cathay Innovation Image Credits: Cathay Innovation. Cathay Innovation was the lead investor in that round, which valued Ledger at $1.5 billion, Gauthier said.

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Paycom’s culture of innovation sets it apart

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Oklahoma’s own Paycom’s culture of innovation sets it apart as an industry pacesetter. Imagine the thousands, or more likely millions, of technology and innovation “dots” that were created and then connected over the last 80-plus years to make that online shopping experience the economic force that it is today. By Scott Meacham.

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