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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Why Are Venture Capitalists Ignoring The Future? The Emerging Domestic Economy

David Teten

My job is to look for new opportunities and new markets. In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. And it seems obvious that more venture investors should also be pursuing this market opportunity.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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Cannabis Entrepreneurs Coming to Austin

Austin Startup

The first-ever Austin Cannabis Entrepreneur (ACE) Conference comes to the Hyatt Regency on April 19–20, bringing two days of content focused on startup opportunities in this fast-growing market. Central Texas founders and investors will want to catch the ACE opening session at 10:00 am on Thursday, April 19.

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Green Austin! April 19–20 Cannabis Event

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: April 18, 2018 “It is becoming mainstream, and in a lot of circles, especially in financial markets now, it’s a question of when, not if.” In 2017, this business was estimated to be worth $7 billion and had a growth rate of close to 30 percent.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Online text book rental service.

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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

Joining me in the investment is fellow Brooklyn native, Mitch Kapor , as well as KEC Holdings and Stickerbrush—but this wasn’t an easy round for Founder Raul Gutierrez to close. He spent a year and a half researching the educational app market and discovered it was (and is) a market that really lacks for quality brands.

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