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Top 15 ESG Startups to Watch in 2024

The Startup Magazine

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts have been developing since the advocation of equal rights by the working men parties in the 1830s, and pollution control in the mid-1850s — when Chicago pragmatically built the first US sewage system to improve water supply. trillion problem, and also a cost on the environment.

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Swedish Start-Up to Fight China’s Polluted Air – But The Movement Is Nation-Wide

YoungUpstarts

Sweden is popular for the recycling and sustainability measures taken throughout the years. Being born and raised in a country where recycling and sustainability are at the core of the society, Johannes Herrmann, the co-founder at Airinum , knows exactly how valuable fresh and breathable air is. And start-ups are no exception.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Less is more.

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Interview with Everipedia’s Tedde Forselius

Mucker Lab

Interview with my Everipedia Co-founder Theodor Forselius (AKA “Tedde”) by Mahbod Moghadam. One of the main reasons I got involved with Everipedia is that I really like the ethnicities of my cofounders. Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. Are there any cool, Mucker / YC esque accelerators in Sweden?

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Say No To Absent Fathers, Yes To Paternity Leave

YoungUpstarts

by Ankita Sheth, cofounder of Vista Rooms. In November 2015, Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his paternity leave plans. Sweden is one of the few countries in the world, where fathers must take at least two months off before the child is 8 years old to receive the government benefits.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Now, I dont think even most dot-com era founders were bad people, I just think traditional startup methods make it too easy to become confused about whether were creating real progress or not.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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