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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. Read More ».

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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Announcing our investment in Celo — a monetary system to create conditions of prosperity for all

Version One Ventures

Celo is mobile-first, and as such, it is far more accessible and user friendly than the average typical crypto wallet. The company’s mobile-first approach is important since two thirds of the “unbanked” population now have a smartphone. Users can get access to Celo tokens via a mobile app.