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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. If you have a storage need in one of these cities please consider checking out MakeSpace. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

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Boston University’s business incubator has produced numerous success stories, including HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals with two drugs in Stage 2 clinical development to treat blood disorders and viral-related cancers, as well as Modular Genetics, a biotechnology company focused on sustainable gene engineering. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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There is nothing viral! Walking is great and I love to walk around Santa Monica, San Francisco and New York City but there are sometimes I need to be 1.6 Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really. Why scooters? Can’t people just ride bikes or walk? Yes, I get this a lot.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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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. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Listly is a content marketing tool that helps helping bloggers and publishers “ take lists to the next level ” by creating lists that are social, viral and constantly evolving. Launched in New York City in 2011, joingrouper.com is a social club that sets up drinks between two groups of friends, then lets the sparks fly.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Nor would I share important job news before sharing with just my immediate family members. What we saw here was Twitter built for the way mainstream users want to connect.