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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. If you have a storage need in one of these cities please consider checking out MakeSpace. years of software development. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

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Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

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Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”. “But

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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. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Time will tell.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

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Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. TLD has serious “nerd allure” amongst developers, techies and hackers. The social events startup has spread to major cities in the US, and has just launched across the pond in London.

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Caregivers: The Unsung (And Quietly Suffering) Heroes

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The “World’s Toughest Job” online job advertisement (above) led to a viral video compilation of the 24 applicants interviews. Stacy quickly made her way from her Atlanta home to her father in New York City. And then they separated with my grandchild learning new things and my mother forgetting them.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

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What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Nor would I share important job news before sharing with just my immediate family members. What we saw here was Twitter built for the way mainstream users want to connect.