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Why Your Next Startup Should Be In Insurance

YoungUpstarts

And then there’s New York-based Lemonade, the most recent insurtech startup to make its way into California. For instance, companies are beginning to provide insurance specifically for Airbnb hosts and Uber drivers. That level of flexibility and customization draws in millennials in a way that no other insurer has managed to pull off.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

ReadWriteStart

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta.

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7 Social Media Events In 2015 Most That You Can Still Make To

Brandanew

Are you a social media enthusiast longing to network with those from your field? Or someone who is setting foot in the marketing world because they found social media to be their calling? A biggie or newbie, here are 7 social media events in 2015 most that you can still make it to if your decisions are made at the speed of light.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. This beta customer list includes the who's who of the tech business, and 1M/1M is very proud to continue hosting a monthly Stanzr event on an ongoing basis. MapWide.com.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

Austin Startup

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Paying 0% in state income tax in Texas versus up to ~10% in California or ~6.5% The exodus of Silicon Valley techies to Austin has largely been fuelled by a quality of life that compares to California, but comes at half the cost of living.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )?