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Love And Giving Aren’t Green: Startups & Corporate Social Impact

YoungUpstarts

Once a year New York City is overcome at 5 p.m. I witnessed people who rarely worked together, in part due to their proclivity to stay behind their laptop screens, bonding over frosting-piping and giggling over their poorly engineered graham cracker rooftops that perpetually squashed their “perfect homes.”

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Green ketchup, bottled water for pets, airport security “action figures”, yogurt shampoo – there have been some pretty epic product failures over the years. An estimated 75 to 95 percent of new products fail in the marketplace. pound paperweight,” said the New York Times’ David Pogue in a technology review.

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Lose Weight and Get Strong Without Leaving Your House

David Teten

At ffVC, we’ve done this with our “ fitness office ”, which has received great reviews. indoor green wall, e.g., from PlantsOnWalls or WindowFarms. Of course, we still live in New York, which means we have to use every square foot wisely. Active Living Fitness Food New York Parenting Personal Technology Productivity'

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How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable

The Startup Magazine

Now, according to the Sustainability Management School , by the year 2030, it is expected that as many as 700 million people may end up having to move due to scarcity of water where they live if the current climate change issues continue. Green Energy: Rather than wait for the government, some companies are putting up solar panels today.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow. Turns Out There Are Competitive Moats There were some tech meme’s out there last year that scooter companies had no moats.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?