International Women’s Day has been on the calendar every year since the early 20th century, a day to celebrate the movement for women’s rights and reflect on the ongoing push for gender equality around the world. It happens every year on March 8.
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Here’s a headline I didn’t expect to see: “Microsoft Bringing AI to Ag.” From the author of that headline in Farm Journal: “Standing before a crowd of farmers at the 2018 Farm Journal AgTech Expo, keynote speaker Josh Henretig voiced what he believed a lot of farmers were thinking.
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iSelect was not conceived as an impact investment fund. When we started the idea was (and continues to be) to find the best and brightest entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley and make lots of small bets investing to support them in their new ventures. When the winners emerge, double down on those. This is investment strategy, not altruism at play.
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As an entrepreneur, July 4th is sort of like Christmas for me. Christmas in the sense that it’s a celebration of one of my personal beliefs: that the individual is capable of unlimited things.
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Peter Thiel is one of the savviest investors of our time. His $2.5 billion net worth is proof of that. So when Thiel says the next big innovations will be born in the American Midwest, it’s probably a safe bet that he’s onto something — especially since he is planning to put his money where his mouth is.
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