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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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Digital Nomads and the Remote Work Revolution

Transformify

According to business mogul and SpaceX founder Elon Musk we may be travelling into space. As explored in a new infographic by SavvyBeaver Canada and BargainFox the popular viral news website BuzzFeed has a 50% remote workforce. Startup Caravanserai is taking this a step further by developing a network of co-living spaces.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Here's my conversation with Curative. Celine Halioua : Hi, I'm Celine Halioua.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company.

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No Excuses not to Travel: Noken is the First Digital Native Tour Operator and Here's Why I Backed It

This is going to be BIG.

When I was growing up, we took a few road trips to see my brother in Chicago and then down to Florida, but we weren't international travelers. Marc Espana and Emily Brockway, the Co-founders of Noken asked why booking travel couldn't be as simple as buying the luggage for your trip.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Consider these facts: Start by poring over the data compiled by Jay Ritter at the University of Florida.

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