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Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online this year; here’s what you might have missed

TechCrunch

What it does: Unlock financial opportunities for farmers to create sustainable farms and improve their livelihoods. The startup’s API links to farmers’ bank accounts, where its algorithm assesses financials to provide a “farm read,” scoring the farms’ financial health. Website: farmraise.com.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Would each company be spending 55% of net revenue on driver incentives, passenger discounts, sales, and marketing to acquire passengers and drivers faster than the other? This created a de-facto duopoly long before either company had proven that it has a sustainable business model. But Lyft’s gains appear to be sustainable.

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Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

And maybe I’ll give sports analogy really quickly, which is-. You can do this in pretty much any sport where this happens. Marcus: I love the sports metaphor. It’s antifragile, it will sustain, it will survive. I had money in the bank and I was willing to take that risk. Marcus: Do it.