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

TechCrunch

Yet Brown insists that FIT:MATCH has a secret weapon in its chief data scientist, Jie Pei, who developed the body-mapping technology while pursuing her Ph.D. from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. When it arrives, FIT:MATCH will be competing with a growing spate of 3D body-scanning apps.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty. Each founder, in turn, develops coping mechanisms to gain control over the unknown, however illusory. Are they making an educated bet or gambling? A synthesis of the standard 10–15 slide pitch deck.

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

TechCrunch

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. This has meant smaller exits, and thus less development for the ecosystem. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. often gets vilified in the pursuit of a good developer, but think about things from the perspective of your average hardcore developer ninja. I was there, too. sucks up all the good programmers.

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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. What does it look like when it’s fully developed? What do you hope it looks like?

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. ” Lime scooters outside El Retiro Park in Madrid (Image Credits: Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch).

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