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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

If venture funds could be supported by the local communities they invest in, you'd create a fantastic dynamic. You can get a list of the biggest pension funds and endowments and it wouldn't take that much legwork to figure out who manages their venture programs. I certainly would! You can't exactly look those people up on Angel List.

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

Probably, the best-known photography community ever. Latvia-based, this service has all chances to overcome Formspring’s popularity. This is a social network for asking and answering sent question – both from anonymous and identified users. This is a useful web-based tool for project management. Couchsurfing.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He wasn't a media star.