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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Founded in December 2006 in San Francisco by Farb Nivi (ex-Princeton Review/Kaplan top instructor). Time will tell.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement.

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Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

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Contact Contact Us Submit News. With more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Must Reads. Watercooler.

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

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You don’t need to look further than the studio’s homepage for an example of this: it features a live webcam that shows what’s going on in New York-based studio right at that moment. Headquarters: New York City. Locations: London, New York City, and San Francisco.

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Outbox Rolls Out In San Francisco: Plans To Bring Snail Mail Into The Digital Age

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That idea – a way to organize, in the cloud, every aspect of your physical mail – is the crux of the two men’s venture, called Outbox, that is opening up to public beta in San Francisco on February 26 after a 6-month test in Austin, Texas, in 2012. Outbox seems remarkably simple – for $4.99

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Bravo's Silicon Valley: The Painful Truth Behind A Caricature Of Excess

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But in early November, cable channel Bravo will debut a new reality program titled “ Silicon Valley ” that will chronicle the lives and struggles of startup entrepreneurs in San Francisco. View of the San Francisco skyline from the Silicon Valley mansion. I, of course, am kidding. Entrepreneurial Truths.