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

TechCrunch

The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support. Fundraising platforms such as Investiere have boosted the angel community support of early funding rounds. It grants up to CHF 130,000 per company.

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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. “We are a new generation of young people in government. .”

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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.

Back in July, I wrote a piece called “ Why Yelp (…and every single retail establishment) Should Support Foursquare ”. Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. That’s not the kind of place innovators tend to like to work.

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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

That's why Sherbrooke and Benchmark just put $8mm into Farmingo , to support these food communities via social software. Brightfarms , which got $4mm in venture capital, sets up indoor farms inside your local supermarket or on rooftops. Plovgh is working on something similar as well. Absolutely.

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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!” However, the market has turned on startups in recent months, which doesn’t exactly support overly ambitious goals. “It is achievable,” he later argued on Twitter.

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