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Cafeteria raises $3M so teens can tell Nike to get Adam Sandler as a brand ambassador

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Brands often rely on scraping the web and monitoring social media to understand what customers are saying about them and get insights for product development. Cafeteria is a startup that wants to connect brands to their most opinionated customers: teens. The startup is launching an iOS app today to onboard teens and connect them with […]

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Cafeteria raises $3M to connect brands with their most opinionated customers: teens

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Brands often rely on scraping the web and monitoring social media to understand what customers are saying about them and get insights for product development. Cafeteria connects teens with brands they are interested in so they can provide feedback about strategy and product development. The startup is launching an iOS app Thursday. Before Thursday’s launch,

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Endolith is using ‘Olympic caliber’ copper microbes to address the copper shortage

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Copper is critical to the energy transition away from fossil fuels. The metal is an excellent conductor of electricity, used in everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines. But by the end of the decade, the International Energy Agency expects copper supplies to fall 20% short of demand. One stealthily operating startup thinks it can

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Why Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and other investors are scouring universities for founders

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The humble garage is so steeped in Silicon Valley lore it’s almost cliché. Yet that’s exactly how Caleb Boyd and Kevin Bush started Molten Industries: in the garage of the Stanford professor’s on-campus home, where Kevin rented an apartment. It had everything they needed: space and, most importantly, power. The two wanted to break methane’s

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