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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. Melissa Thompson left a burgeoning Wall Street career as a trader with Goldman Sachs to become a female pioneer in the world of technology. By Melissa Thompson, CEO of Talk Session. The foundations and processes we establish early on yield exponential returns in perpetuity.

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How Businesses Can Be Sustainable And Profitable

The Startup Magazine

In fact, the New York Times is reporting that a disturbing trend across the country is for hackers to target servers in a municipality and demand ransom, keeping workers out of their own system until the amount demanded is paid in full. Encourage Employees to Commute in a Green Manner. They save business owners in two ways.

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Lose Weight and Get Strong Without Leaving Your House

David Teten

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' Kinesis Advantage ergonomic keyboards and Aerobic mouse. a sprung dance floor.

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Introduction to the New York Fintech Community

David Teten

FinTech New York Accelerator. MetaProp (real estate technology). Rise New York (good mailing list) – includes the Barclays Accelerator , in partnership with Techstars , and a coworking space for fintech startups. Startupbootcamp Fintech New York. Green Visor Capital. NY Fintech Hubs.

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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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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. The best cities and campuses have fully embraced scooters and others are waiting and watching this experiment and hoping to learn.

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Can Business Save The Earth?

YoungUpstarts

Addressing our sustainability challenge requires substantial innovation across a wide number of industrial sectors that promises to disrupt existing technologies and business models. Each of these players influence the degree to which businesses invest in and develop sustainable technologies. There is ultimately no silver bullet.

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