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Why Black Friday Is Toxic for Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

As a startup, you want to build a sustainable business with a competitive advantage over all rivals. 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. Sustainability has a positive impact on your business.

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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. But if an entrepreneur wants to sell their company, that’s OK too. Let’s start with the investment thesis.

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

TechCrunch

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. Compared to other European countries, Switzerland has a low regulatory burden and a well-educated, highly qualified workforce. Also sustainability will hopefully be put back on the agenda. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. anyone using these barstools and this old printing press?"