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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The poem on the Statue of Liberty was a symbol of hope for a better life for European immigrants arriving in New York: ‘ Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

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Rethinking Impact Investing

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A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Rethinking Impact Investing

thebarefootvc

A budding poet at the age of 10, I had filled my diary with poems of gold palaces, handsome princes and beautiful silks on the long plan ride from New York to Bombay…only to be greeted at 2 AM by a chaotic scene of humanity (and stray animals) in the humid air – the airport was not even enclosed.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

I explained it to Washington State, because that was ground zero of the United States at the time until it was New York. We saw that in New York, for example, very connected to Italy and a lot of cases very early on. And so, I first started focusing on the Bay Area. Okay, at what point should you close your office?