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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. DrumG is located in New York, London, Singapore and Bermuda.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: DrumG

Austin Startup

DrumG has raised $6.5mm in Series A funding from ConsenSys, one of the largest blockchain companies in the world, led by ConsenSys’ CEO and Co-Founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin , and is currently raising Series B funds. DrumG is located in New York, London, Singapore and Bermuda.

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The myth of the brainstorming session: The best ideas don’t always come from meetings

The Next Web

Rsearchers at Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina noted that we generally value practical ideas because they are proven and familiar compared to novel concepts which are riskier to endorse. Groups hate scary ideas. Many brainstorming sessions are thought of as an end goal?—?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. He graduated from Stanford University and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet.

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ConnectYard Integrates Social Media Into School Communications

YoungUpstarts

ConnectYard solutions bridge the gap between students and the institutions that serve them,” says co-founder and CEO Donald Doane, who also founded web systems provider OpenDemand Systems.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.