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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening.

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Q2 2020 Quarterly Update

Version One Ventures

Because Opyn’s platform is open and generalizable, we believe it can become one of those core primitives or “money legos” for DeFi. Cape Privacy emerged from stealth and announced a $5 million seed round , which we co-led with Boldstart Ventures. Product Launches, Accolades and Other News. Funding Announcements .

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments.