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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

GrabCAD & Professional Communities. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. GrabCAD continues to grow like a weed with over 70,000 mechanical engineers who have downloaded CAD models from the community over 1.2

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. One hundred and fifty entrepreneurs and community members attended the monthly conference, which alternates between Tallinn and Helsinki. A two hour ferry ride across the Bay of Finland carried us from Tallinn to Helsinki.

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8 Expectations Of Investors Who Risk Their Own Money

Startup Professionals Musings

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. contributes more than $25 billion to fund 70,000 startups every year.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings. Joining us in the syndicate are Lerer Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Fuel Capital. It’s indispensable.”

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Products that were previously not inherently social, will embrace community, stories and sharing to increase stickiness and drive revenue. It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Magentooffers flexible, scalable eCommerce solutions, it’s Community Edition is free and includes a number of key features such as: an admin panel, user profiles, installation wizard, email notifications, product catalog toolkit, sales reports, themes, SSL support and more.

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Why Angelist Syndicates is Great For the Boston Startup Community

Rob Go

Which is why I’m pretty psyched about Angelist syndicates, especially in relation to the Boston startup community. Enter Angelist Syndicates. Boston is an incredibly rich ecosystem in almost all regards. And this will probably be true for quite a few other ecosystems as well.'