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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. From security inks to sunlight harvesting with windows, your product range is wide. UbiQD’s sunlight harvesting windows use quantum dots to turn solar energy into electricity. Great question.

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What Happens to Farming When Water Is 10x More Expensive & Labor Is Scarce?

Hunter Walker

Our global food supply chain still functions as if water is free and limitless. Our global food supply chain assumes that cheap labor is available wherever and whenever needed. Even when you can grow, can you harvest? Bowery uses no pesticides and 95% less water to grow its leafy green crops in industrial-scale urban facilities.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

These designers help small to mid-sized brands design/develop quality product by exposing them to big company best practices and a global network of factories, trim suppliers, fabric sources, etc. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. We are able to do that because: 1.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). One global institutional investor is investigating setting up a large-scale co-investment vehicle, similar to Correlation Ventures, but focused on private equity transactions.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. It just didn’t make sense.