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Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty and a newer startup, FIT:MATCH, team up to sell better-fitting lingerie

TechCrunch

It’s the start of what FIT:MATCH hopes will be a much longer journey, says Brown, whose startup has so far raised $10 million in funding across two tranches, including from Alante Capital and Fabletics, a brand that, like Savage X Fenty, is part of TechStyle Fashion Group, an L.A.-based from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Based on this distribution only a handful of companies raise 80% of total funding, and one or two outliers return 2/3 of the fund’s capital. It’s about who you know and your accumulated social capital. Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty.

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

TechCrunch

For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Arguably, this is the most interesting part of 2050. It proves that the team is committed to its vision beyond blog posts. The idea is to share that class as broadly as possible under an open license.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

But in recent years, corporate docs are being drawn up in English to facilitate communication both inside Switzerland’s various language regions and foreign capital, and investment documentation is modeled after the U.S. Ten years ago startups were unusual. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

The simple fact of the matter is that most startups seeking angel or vc capital just don’t receive it—and that’s just anywhere. It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. How will you know who the investors are when one of your school-grown startups need capital? Same with students.

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked. And the fact that the world around us is built by us, it’s not something that we just accept.

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