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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.

Hunter Walk

In these cases we’re asking ourselves, can this individual/partnership execute a ‘known’ playbook better than incumbents, because it’s not very interesting to put people in business who are going to be Traditional But Average.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. It is about building and recreating communities. Image courtesy of Mint House Real estate lies at the core of our everyday lives?—?it

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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

TechCrunch

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking.

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Cultivating a Practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecosystem Building Programs

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As part of the Insights from the Field campaign, I wanted to hear from other ecosystem builders in the field about their approaches to DEI, and hopefully identify specific techniques that they’ve incorporated in their communities. Building Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Communities of Color. It’s not an afterthought.

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

TechCrunch

This negative narrative has immense implications for the venture community. Three key areas of proposed intervention by the SEC offer examples of why the venture community should be paying attention. This is an inflection point. In short, the SEC’s actions could slow one of our greatest engines of innovation.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

TechCrunch

Companies in this segment work with community pharmacies and lower-end providers such as drug shops to help stock products. And according to a new report from Salient Advisory, a global healthcare consulting firm, this is the segment where the most impressive growth has occurred for Africa’s healthcare in the last 12 months.

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Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen

TechCrunch

“My dad still eats instant ramen each night, and it is such a massive market: 4 billion packets are sold per year, but it is also a product that has been dominated by the same three incumbents for years.”. The company has amassed a community of 4,000 members that help Immi with rapid taste testing. “We billion of value in the U.S.