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Feras Bashnak is a serial entrepreneur who knows first-hand the high cost of opening a business. Want to launch a brick-and-mortar restaurant? Half a million. How about a food truck? $100,000. Either way, you’re sinking a lot of cash into…
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Tark Abed totally digs skateboarding. Testing his boundaries, tuning into his surroundings, moving and pivoting on the fly: “doing it differently, learning and moving forward. That’s a metaphor for life,” he says, “and also a powerful metaphor for the design…
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Alan Dowdell is tackling a $400 billion global environmental problem. That’s the total addressable market for powertrains for all the world’s trucks and buses – nearly all of which have the capacity for conversion to electric. Dowdell and his company…
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If robots are coming to take our jobs, let’s give them a really dangerous one: window washing. The skyscape above us in major cities is the new workplace for Ozmo, the window washing robot debuted last year by Skyline Robotics….
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