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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most. Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Twitter Link Roundup #224 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. The New York Times probably won’t implement its brilliant innovation report | Vox – crowdspring.co/1jzZxAw.

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How We Grew Our Fashion Accessories Business To Over A Million Dollars In Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

My immediate goal was to have a showroom in every market in the US – Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It was during the New York shows that I met our first showroom who was based in Atlanta. Once we were in Nordstrom, it was quite easy for us to find a prestigious New York showroom.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Luckily Eric Ries was spending a few days in New York, so we sat down in the middle of Times Square and hashed this out.

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Design Museum Boston

Up and Running

While I had just finished an approximately year long quest to see as many design museums as possible — in New York, Miami, Atlanta, London, and Essen, Germany — Derek had just visited New York City and experienced some pop-up retail stores. And that’s what we are. Stay tuned!). So why are we at MassChallenge?

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. Silicon Valley don’t want you guys out there to see Jessie Owens beat Germany in the 1936 Olympics because they saw how you loved Jessie Owens after that.