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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io Cofounder of Greenhouse.io says founder Kellee Khalil. “These new.io and wrangler.io , says, “.io io” as well.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. It was originally called Romotive, and I still remember founder Keller Rinaudo just crushing it at demo day that year. DigitalOcean is based in New York City. #9:

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7

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“It’s okay to take profits and not hodl forever.” Does this make Alex Taub a web3 contrarian or just reasonable?

Hunter Walker

When I befriended Alex Taub in 2013 he lived in New York City, didn’t have children, and certainly did not yet have thousands of dollars invested in virtual race horses. Hunter Walk: Ok, we met back in 2013 after we invested in theSkimm and they said you were one of their friends/navigators of the startup world.

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YSN Launches Global “Build Your Own Virtual SUBWAY® Store” Campaign

YoungUpstarts

The founder of of international sandwich chain SUBWAY® , Fred DeLuca, started his business with a US$1,000 loan when he was just 17. From there, the adventure will continue in New York City and Washington DC. That was in 1965.

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What your startup can learn from the internship disasters of 2013

The Next Web

Nathan Parcells is co-founder and CMO of InternMatch , an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. The past year was eventful for a number of reasons, including new iPhones , next-gen consoles, and intern lawsuits. Many internship programs were filled with disaster after disaster in 2013.

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Stray Boots Launches Mobile Guided Urban Scavenger Game Around NYC

YoungUpstarts

Well yeah, they’re about to be made obsolete if New York City-based mobile game startup Stray Boots had its way. The startup recently announced an iPhone application that allows New Yorkers and visitors alike to discover the city through a fun, interactive game using their mobile phones.

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