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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. from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. Cornell has since licensed three of the patents on which she worked to FIT:MATCH.)

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Halfway through the journey, I realized that something was fundamentally off in how founders tell them and how investors receive them. Table of contents The Investor The Founder The Pitch The Story The Coach The investor The simplest explanation for what a pitch is, has to do with starting a conversation. The standard venture funnel.

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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. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures. Katrin Siebenbuerger Hacki, founder, Medows. Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. If there’s anything that hackers and founders hate, it’s an ivory tower attitude. Ok, I think I’ve said enough.

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

And we back a lot of immigrant founders, usually building companies, not cities. And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked. Katherine: Yeah.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. They flew in Leah Culver and the founder of Github to come speak—and that brought in 100 developers whose names, emails, and websites they all captured through Eventbrite. I was there, too.

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25 French unicorns, 25 French unicorns, do I hear 100?

TechCrunch

“And because startups have a role to play in the ecological transition, let’s set another goal: 25 green unicorns by 2030!” in terms of unicorns per capita, it should already have 130, BlaBlaCar founder Frédéric Mazzella told Les Échos in an interview. “It is achievable,” he later argued on Twitter.

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