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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

With 2050, Ekeland is going back to the drawing board with a different vision when it comes to investment thesis, fund structure and the firm’s own values. But if an entrepreneur wants to sell their company, that’s OK too. Some key concepts will be turned into actionable items for entrepreneurs.

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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal. ” Enter Grove.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

What gets frustrating is that I tend to hear the same arguments over and over again from new entrepreneurs, and many of them are just completely unfunded. Unfortunately, they tend to resonate really well with frustrated entrepreneurs and a lot of dust gets kicked up over them. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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