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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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based brand incubator whose spin-outs charge customers monthly for credits toward their purchases. Indeed, if all goes as planned, a much bigger market for FIT:MATCH will center on at-home shoppers who similarly use their iPhone’s lidar combined with the startup’s body mapping technology for use across participating retailers.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

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Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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

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Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support. Ten years ago startups were unusual. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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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.

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.

If I were thinking about a startup or participating in any kind of startup activity, like classes or an incubator, and I worked at Yelp fulltime, I’d go take a look at the assignment of IP rights in my employment contract. Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology.

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

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He highlights a couple of priority projects: One to create a network to link entrepreneurs and policymakers with the wider ecosystem, and another to connect incubators and accelerators to build out a national support network for founders — both of which have been inspired by approaches taken in other European countries.

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