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How Duolingo became fluent in monetization

TechCrunch

The startup, filled with education enthusiasts and mission-driven employees, became “very college pizza vibes,” Gina Gotthilf, former VP of Marketing at Duolingo, described. By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.

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How To Unleash Sustainable Innovation That Matters

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A 2015 Maine Business Leader of the Year , he reports that eliminating waste and carbon has freed capital for growth, enhancing employee and customer loyalty. In 2008, Unilever , a company of 172,000 employees and 2015 sales of $60.6 As with Lamey Wellehan, the key to success for that 10% was practicing abundance. Share and prosper.

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Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing

TechCrunch

Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.” million grant from the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, bringing the round a bit shy of an even $10 million. million Series A led by AM Ventures and a $2.9

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Breakthrough Energy Fellows announces 3rd Cohort to accelerate Climate-tech Innovation

American Entrepreneurship

They are working every day to introduce novel technologies and disruptive approaches to a variety of industries, which will have the power to transform and reimagine our future. Breakthrough Energy was founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to solve the climate crisis.

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VC Corner: Marlon Nichols, Cross Culture VC

Startup Grind

We started to invest out of our inaugural fund, Cross Culture Ventures I in April 2015. Healthcare in this country has been broken for a long time and is in desperate need of disruption. Wonderschool is solving a significant problem in childcare/education and is doing it on both sides of the marketplace.

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling. ” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures.

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With investors like Lightspeed and The Chainsmokers, Mexican neobroker Flink raises $57M to boost financial inclusion in LatAm

TechCrunch

Neobrokers are defined as startups that are disrupting the investment industry by providing a platform for a wider range of consumers to partake in the stock market by offering them more incremental investment options and modern and easy mobile-based interfaces to manage their money.