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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The startups ranked most highly by investors and startup enthusiasts in terms of scalability and longevity received votes on how well they connected with investors.

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The Impact of Techbikers – Part II

VC Cafe

Nepal, May 2016. For the first time this year, I went to see the impact of Techbikers in Nepal. I was joined by Michael and Marie, co-organizers of Techbikers over the past few years. magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal, but the aftermath is visible everywhere. It’s surprising how far the money can go in Nepal.

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

The Startup Magazine

Allen Tsai is an experienced entrepreneur with many connections in the startup world. 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. Background.

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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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Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement. The Lean Startup movement is almost a decade old now and it’s now easier than ever for anyone to learn “Lean Startup” methods and become more entrepreneurial. in developing these new models.

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The Story of Techbikers (You can Play a role too)

VC Cafe

A combination of wanting to do good and yearning to be part of a strong startup community in London. Since we started Techbikers in 2012, 120 techies cycled from Paris to London and we’ve raised over 100,000 pounds for Room to Read , creating 3 schools, 4 libraries and 3,000 scholarships for girls in India and Nepal.

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VC Cafe Turns 9

VC Cafe

Consuming a lot of information as a skill – When I was covering Israeli startup news, I didn’t want to miss a thing… email alerts, newsletters, a long list of RSS feeds, Techmeme – these were all scanned before 9am with the goal to ingest and digest tons of data and distil it into a post, a thought, or an insight.