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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. One of the main reasons why my partners and I started TopFire Media is to fill a void within the franchise arena. Thanks to Matthew Jonas, TopFire Media. Thanks to Karen Cahn, VProud ! Point taken.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

Both Sides of the Table

The fourth part is “ discover ” and this is the professional media part of Snapchat that you barely knew existed but your younger peers certainly know about. Stick with it the same way you “didn’t get” Twitter in 2007 when you signed up but by 2009 you were using it effortlessly. But get on the treadmill.”

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Bitesize Monday: Israeli Startup Headlines

VC Cafe

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Chicago-based Future Simple raised $1.1 Chicago-based InterCall buys Unisfair , Israel’s virtual conference tool, for $35 million. Footbo raises $2.5