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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. . The initial investment certainly wasn’t a consensus decision at Upfront, but that’s how we invest. We loved the idea. With conviction.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

One such portfolio can consist of 20–40 investments. The number and size of investments matters — because eventually the returns on them are known to form a power law distribution. The top quartile of VCs invest in outliers, the median doesn’t. These outcomes are called ‘unicorns’ for a reason. They are mythically rare.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

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. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too. Do you have a Bose radio at home?

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded. It was easy peasy.

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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. So it will be something of a milestone. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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