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Circularity tales: Environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

Josephine Tine, co-founder of ART-Pesoung, Hadji Malick Sagne, of Cactus Innovation, and Adja Aissatou Diallo, founder of Galle epitomise the transformative potential of sustainable solutions in Senegal’s shift towards a circular economy.

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Circularity Tales: environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

However, the technical support and idea incubation available remain small. . Named “Wërngël-Bi”, a term in Wolof that translates to “The Circle”, the circularity programme at Impact Hub Dakar supported different entrepreneurs carrying out projects that ranged from eco-construction to ecological toilets.

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

TechCrunch

According to FIT:MATCH founder and CEO Haniff Brown, no videos or pictures are stored; the process also takes less than 30 seconds from beginning to end, says the company. based brand incubator whose spin-outs charge customers monthly for credits toward their purchases. from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.

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

TechCrunch

While they can withdraw those funds from the business the next day, local founders must still secure decent backing to even begin the work. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Katrin Siebenbuerger Hacki, founder, Medows. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

It took me all of 45 minutes to setup the program—I wrote up a syllabus for 5 sessions, solicited feedback from a dozen or so product managers I knew (most of whom volunteered to speak), and called up Micah at the NYU/Poly Incubator to get the space. No revenues, no costs. Bo from RoseTech even volunteered to videotape the sessions.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

menagerie of creative entrepreneurs occupies the seven-story building, now known as the Metropolitan Exchange, or MEx, including biotechnologists, ecologically minded architects, organic fashion designers and even miniature-cupcake makers.

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Why Yelp should pay attention to not shooting itself in the face (and what ripping off Foursquare and taking big money from Elevation mean)

This is going to be BIG.

The hilarious thing is that Yelp actually thinks it can beat Foursquare at its own game—and it is a game, one that founder Dennis Crowley has been thinking about for at least 8 years. Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology. Gaming dynamics is not the core competency of Yelp, so why bother?

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