Go to your average supermarket for a weekday lunch, buy a new lamp for your home, or take away a bit of food from a restaurant for an easy dinner, and you will undoubtedly notice that they come in labyrinths of plastic packaging — packaging which can take up to 1000 years to degrade. Luckily,…
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Being in the world of startups and accelerating their development, we often get asked about the ingredients to a healthy ecosystem which can really promote innovation and encourage entrepreneurship. While we are focused on Berlin-based startups, we do like to keep track of how different tech hubs are doing to support their innovation efforts —…
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Everything we consume is associated with a long chain of environmentally impactful waste. In order to make the materials we use and the objects we consume, the environment pays a hidden cost across all levels of manufacturing. That’s why it is essential to talk about enablers of consumption, business. Whether it’s food, retail, auto, or…
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It has been ten years since Uber was founded (then named UberCab), and almost seven years since Lyft came on to the scene (then named Zimride). In these intervening years, they have helped disrupt and transform their industry to the state of on-demand mobility we see today. As you may very well know, in recent…
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Think of a farm, and you might picture vast fields of crops swaying to the breeze under the countryside sun. But that’s not the case for the newest team to join the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator — when the Klimazone crew pictures a farm, they see buildings. They see rows of crops stacked to the roof…
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A while ago, we noted down some helpful marketing tips for new ventures that are looking to get their name out there. Because that post focused on the more practical bits of how to craft and refine messaging, we thought it might be a good idea to talk a little more on who that messaging…
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Among the many challenges of running a new company is the tricky matter of personnel. The product may be fantastic in principle, but without the right people behind you, it will cripple your company’s ability to get things done on time and deliver on your goals. So, how do you make sure the new team…
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The majority of startups fail. For every success story of garage-born ideas that rise to billion-dollar enterprises, there are hundreds of companies that just didn’t work out and had to shut their doors. With the landscape so full of ruthless competition, founders need to be ready to adapt their business to changing market conditions. The…
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It’s not news that climate change is the biggest threat to the globe. Rising average temperature, extreme weather events, shifting wildfires, rising seas, and migration are impacts we all face. While all these changes are moving to an extreme, the progress on tackling these threats hasn’t showed sufficient gains. Climate change not only needs action,…
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Whether you are meeting an accelerator like ourselves, a VC, or later stage investors, you’ll hear the term ‘pitch deck’ being thrown around a lot. A pitch deck is a Keynote, PowerPoint, or some other visual presentation which gives an overview of your business plan. But that leaves some questions hanging: namely, what should you…
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