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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened. The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category. Brand matters. How does the Bird service work?

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It’s About Women Running Startups

Steve Blank

She had an interesting insight: existing content/media companies were having the same problem as hardware companies that rarely made the leap to new platforms. And she had a model for a new media company for mobile and wearables. I had a better one when I came back from New York. New York Startups.

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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

According to a statement from LBMA , Singapore was chosen as its new Asia hub due to the country’s high smartphone penetration and rich cross-section of LBS players from retailers, agencies, advertisers and media buyers, to software and services providers and wireless companies.

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

You can run ads, post on social media, or even go old-school and hand out flyers. In New York, San Francisco, and the world over, investors are having lunches just talking about it. The media group has a website and social media channels that are dedicated to helping Under30 CEOs and entrepreneurs.

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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. Celina Kirchner is a full-stack attorney at Michelman & Robinson, LLP (M&R), a national law firm with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County (California), San Francisco, Chicago and New York.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

If you enjoy the coffeehouse vibe, but hate the coffeehouse distractions, Coffee & Power in San Francisco is a great place to be a co-worker. Designed as a work space for writers, Paragraph takes up a 2,500-square-foot loft space in New York City. startups, social media firms, advertising and PR companies, and more.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. They have a can-do attitude that is infectious. Of course the naysayers are out again.