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A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires

TechCrunch

Meanwhile, Greece and other Mediterranean nations have been fighting fires for weeks to bring a number of massive blazes under control. Following the IPCC’s report, we need more technology to respond to more disasters.

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Why the next big entrepreneur must come from climate tech

TechCrunch

Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0 financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event.

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How to Find Your Next Great Board Member

Connection Cafe

That dynamic is a recipe for disaster if the board member doesn’t believe in the organization’s vision. The last word comes to us from ancient Greece. This situation often happens when corporations force their executives to join association or nonprofit boards “for the good of the company.” Nosce te ipsum.

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Fox is making a blockchain animated series with Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon to sell you NFTs

The Verge

It will launch a dedicated marketplace for Krapopolis , a show set in mythical ancient Greece “centered on a flawed family of humans, gods, and monsters that tries to run one of the world’s first cities without killing each other.”.

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