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SXSW Startups: Boost Biomes

Austin Startup

Its first products seek to reduce the enormous waste in agricultural products due to crop loss to fungal pests in the field and post-harvest. These address both pre- and post-harvest food security by focusing internally on post-harvest protection of fruits and vegetables. In the U.S., What is your competitive advantage?

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their One Prediction for Business in 2022

Hearpreneur

Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. I expect businesses in multiple sectors that have been limping along in crisis mode since the pandemic to really start buckling due to chronic understaffing and a loss of any kind of institutional culture or experience.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Role of a Mentor in Their Business

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: James Green. Thanks to James Green, Build a Head ! . #5- And while he doesn’t technically work for the rest of my business, I feel like he does through me. My business mentor answered specific questions I had by sharing their knowledge and contacts harvested through their years of experience.

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[ADV] Young Entrepreneurs Emerge From ideas.inc Business Challenge 2011

YoungUpstarts

This technology will be a noteworthy advancement in urban operations such as traffic reporting or area monitoring. Going Green & Eco-friendly. With all the advanced technologies people are using and new inventions being discovered every day, do you think you can work backwards? Their greatest influences? Bamboobee does.

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UT Business students are fighting snakes with memes. Here’s why.

Austin Startup

For example, an MIT study concluded that simply having more women on a team will improve the collective intelligence of a team due to an increase in social perception?—?the uShip was recently nominated for the Austin Best Place to Work award, which in part had to do with providing these locally-harvested greens from their very own building.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13- From then on, every harvest he’d pack into the bike and trek over 40 miles away to Melbourne to sell. Later they failed to keep up with technologies and the digital boom and have even filed for bankruptcy twice. 12- Disney. 13- My grandfather.

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Sustainable Design Can Help Your Small Business and Improve the Environment

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In fact, a 2017 peer-reviewed study in the Lancet revealed that pollution continues to be a major global health concern. Sustainable business , or a green business , is a business that strives to create the smallest amount of impact on the environment as possible. Choose green materials. Sustainable design is a similar concept.

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