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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Unruly Studios Unruly Splats are the only STEM education tool that combines high-quality coding learning with a social and active play experience. Achieving the wow factor, our facility is literally a smile factory using new ways to gamify skydiving and immerse guests in parachute simulations amongst educational skydiving museum exhibit.

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

TechCrunch

2050 wants to focus on five fundamental areas — the future of food, better healthcare, improving education, shaping a sustainable lifestyle and fostering trust in the media and financial institutions. For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century.

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Why Black Friday Is Toxic for Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Take Apple as an example: they don’t offer discounts on their products (except for education), even though they could easily do so because their products are expensive. socially, ecologically, or economically.” Johan Olzon, Co-Founder of Soeder: “We want to inspire our customers to consume consciously.

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Life of Purpose: Madison Bachman Followed Her Passion to Research Baboons

StartupNation

The organization embraces innovation, education, ecological research, and natural landscape restoration. “Our vision is a world where wildlife and wild places are protected, and the human communities surrounding these areas have the necessary support to live in harmony with nature and the local primate inhabitants.”.

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

TechCrunch

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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The lion and the ant: A managerial lesson

Berkonomics

We learn from our experience and education that growth comes from “top–grading” at all levels of the organization. Taxon cycles are sequential phases of expansion and contraction of the ranges of species, associated generally with shifts in ecological distribution.” Why not see the obvious? Or is it more complex?

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