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

TechCrunch

from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. Yet Brown insists that FIT:MATCH has a secret weapon in its chief data scientist, Jie Pei, who developed the body-mapping technology while pursuing her Ph.D. Cornell has since licensed three of the patents on which she worked to FIT:MATCH.)

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Arguably, this is the most interesting part of 2050. It proves that the team is committed to its vision beyond blog posts. The idea is to share that class as broadly as possible under an open license.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Solution: develop more accurate mental models of how venture capital works and how humans make decisions under uncertainty. See the public memos by Bessemer Venture Partners. This is happening, in part, due to the rapid technological change that comes with disruptors backed by venture capital.

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

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I really wish that the business case for social and ecological startups will finally be proven (kind of like Oatly showed with the Blackstone investment). Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

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. It’s okay to be building artificial intelligence and it’s controversial to be building a new city, it just doesn’t make any sense.

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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. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Ok, I think I’ve said enough.

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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. Just because there are a lot of startups living off of a certain ecology in a city doesn’t mean you can’t build a different kind of company in that place. I was there, too. They’re all doing pretty well.

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