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New Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Investment: Five Takeaways from the ElectNext Funding News

This is going to be BIG.

It's very fashionable these days of crowdfunding and party rounds to go out, tell a good story to individuals, and piece together a lot of cash from a lot of folks--with no investor in particular really taking any responsibility for advising the company. 2) Fail fast. 3) Use existing models of success.

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Balancing act: The growing importance of delivering both financial returns and measurable social and environmental outcomes

Private Equity Wire

As such, we prioritise investing in companies with technology offerings that have the potential to generate a life improvement for at least one million people in emerging markets within a decade of investment, while still meeting typical venture capital return expectations by commercialising their technology in North America and Europe.

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Better Investment: Stocks or Real Estate?

The Motley Fool

You look at things from capital appreciation, stocks, ultimately they have the potential to increase in value over time. I think that's something that probably doesn't get enough attention but the longer you own certain companies, and that comes with dividends and also capital appreciation, stocks go up. There's compounding.

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