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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

The creator economy consists of a new set of tools designed to support content creators from all walks of life (from doctors to hobbyists). The creator economy market map, Singalfire. Much like an Uber driver or a twenty-tens Instagram influencer, the creator is responsible for her own marketing, health care, and tax contributions.

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