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Solving Hard Problems: Traptic’s Harvesting Robots

K9 Ventures

The wheat would be harvested with sickles and then threshed by hand to separate the grain. But then, I drove down through Watsonville, CA on the way to Monterrey and saw acres and acres of strawberry, lettuce, and other ground crops that were still being harvested by humans — with their hands. Vinh Phan, Traptic.

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Startup Daily Harvest Reaches Unicorn Status With $1.1 Billion Valuation

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Startup Daily Harvest Reaches Unicorn Status With $1.1 Billion Valuation appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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NFT Tax Lost Harvesting, George Carlin, Living Colour and More: Seven Links To Read (12/30/22)

Hunter Walker

NFT Tax Loss Harvesting. But given that rock radio was still pumping out pop-metal trifles like Winger’s “Seventeen” and Poison’s “Nothing But a Good Time” in 1988, it’s easy to understand why Vivid ’s mainstream incursion moved in slow motion. What to do with those NFTs that you bought at the height of recent mania?

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money. Even a non-profit needs income to operate. Build a credible business implementation plan to quantify costs.

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[INTERVIEW] David Mimran, Director Of The Mimran Group

YoungUpstarts

Due to their location above the seafloor bedroom, harvesting them is not a major technical challenge, although there are obvious challenges involved in underwater extraction. I see vast potential in undersea mining, specifically the production of iron and manganese from polymetallic nodules in the upper layers of seabed sediment.

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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

If you want to go one step further, your virtual assistants can deliberately harvest data necessary for your conversion teams. That allows them to contribute considerably to the optimization process by sharing their experience with the client base. Assistance with sales reports.

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Valuations 101: The Venture Capital Method

Gust

The concept is simply…since: Return on Investment (ROI) = Terminal (or Harvest) Value ÷ Post-money Valuation. (in So, let’s address each of these: Terminal Value is the anticipated selling price (or investor harvest value) for the company at some point down the road; let’s assume 5-8 years after investment.