Does the criteria for food tech startups differ from investments in more traditional tech companies?
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It is important to note that this map only focuses on a particular segment of the food tech industry.
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It is important to note that this estimate only focuses on a particular segment of the food tech industry.
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This June 5, the best and bright brightest of the food tech community are being invited to showcase your work in at the third annual Health Datapalooza.
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And quantified self and food and tech like I said earlier, are going to converge at some point.
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One of the areas I think is most exciting now in the food and tech area is certainly educational content.
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And again, this is something that I think is quite difficult for a lot of the food and tech companies to really bring us.
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The company is founded by Ooshma Garg, who came up with the idea last July to bring together her interests in food and tech start-ups.
Zynga, maker of games like FarmVille, is following in the proud food traditions of tech companies such as Google Inc.
There is also a longtime overlap between the tech scene and food trends.
Khosla has invested in tech companies like Square, as well as clean tech companies and food startups like a new kind of vegetarian meat company.
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Originally designed for an automotive parts manufacturer, Plex Online is being adopted by aerospace and defense, food and beverage, high tech and electronics, industrial machinery, and precision metal manufacturers.
There is little of Kerouac to find here, though, considering his brief stint with the US Navy, you could get your 21st-century kicks at popular Navy Pier, a distracting bevvy of fast-food restaurants and high-tech amusement rides.
Lim also casts a wide net for customers, currently selling to ten industries including medical (still the biggest), high tech, utilities and food services.
"We always think we're right and always think it's possible to do them, " says Mr. Kaplan, who is now chief executive of a company based on his latest idea, The Melt, San Francisco, a high-tech restaurant chain offering healthy comfort food.
My colleague Meghan Casserly recently reported that in addition to free haircuts, gourmet food, on-site doctors and high-tech cleansing toilets, Googlers are now offered death benefits.
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The video also emphasizes the perks and casual vibe of working at a deep-pocketed tech company, where employees get free food, work barefoot and skateboard around the office.
Its anchor companies span the range from agriculture and food products (Cargill, General Mills) to medium tech (3M) to aviation (Cirrus Design) to health care (Medtronic) to retail (Best Buy, Target) to a cluster of tech startups in the southwestern suburbs of Minneapolis.
That's because the three men who created Blue Man a trippy cabaret act that features three mute men in blue face paint backed by high-tech special effects and lots of toilet paper, food and other props did appear on Leno and they do shill (silently) for Intel.
The inclusion of food production also points to a broadening of the definition of green tech, which in the past referred more narrowly to technologies such as those for renewable electricity and biofuel production, electric car development and new materials and services that help consumers and businesses use energy more efficiently.
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For a more low-tech approach, consider giving yourself a fixed cash allowance for discretionary expenses like food and shopping.
"There are two types of tech companies, " Myhrvold says in between pauses to inhale the aroma of the food.
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