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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

Describe the Digs product/service in 10 words or less. Digs is a savings product that helps renters transition into homeownership. My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. Team Info: Co-Founder: Pat McLoughlin. Digs Savings Product.

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

What spending 10 days in a remote village in Nepal has taught me about the role of technology in water sustainability and independence The Origin Story At an early age, my parents instilled in us a sense of empathy for the less fortunate and taught us to be mindful custodians of the world and its precious natural resources.

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VC Cafe Turns 9

VC Cafe

Related to that, my post on ‘ Lean Market Research ‘ was a summary of a talk I gave to entrepreneurship students at London Business School and is a good first step when you’re entertaining a startup idea as a founder or investor. Wishing you a happy and productive new year. I’ll try to do more of it this year!

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Brian Sheth Invests in Water-Device Startup Pani Systems Inc.

The Startup Magazine

Tsai got the idea for Pani when he helped to install a water pipeline in 2018 that delivers clean water to rural areas to Nepal. He had previously invested in Tastebud, which Tsai co-founded and served as vice president of product. Joshua Baer, founder of Capital Factory. Brett Hurt, founder of Bazaarvoice and Data.world.

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Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 There are co-working spaces in basically every city in the world—from Nepal to New York. We had to design a whole new hiring process, compensation model, operating model, co-working spaces, etc. It never is.

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Exploring The Everyday: Janji Wants You To Change The World By Running

View from Seed

I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. According to the American Water Works Association, nearly 1/3 of all American households may struggle to pay for water.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products. Food and Kindred Products.