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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

That obsession with food had inspired Jon Yongfook Cockle to put together, as a weekend hacking experiment , a website that does a take on content aggregation around food reviews. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Since it launched in 2009 it has funded 86,000 startups and raised well over $400,000,000. A Move back to vertical living – Years ago we used to live above the store, or behind the craftsman’s workshop.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Read more on TechCrunch [.]

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. What got you interested and how have you been studying the system?