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

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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

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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. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures.

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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. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. No revenues, no costs.

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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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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. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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

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Chat to local founders and there’s a litany of administrative, tax-based and fundraising pain-points they’ll quickly point to as frustrations. This would really drive innovation,” co-founder Sacha Michaud tells us. So it will be something of a milestone. France and Germany. That we generate a positive benchmark.

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