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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute. Just don’t spam people.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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Genetic Medicine: FDA OKs 2nd Cancer Drug that Targets DNA, not Tissues

Xconomy

The drug is larotrectinib (Vitrakvi), from Loxo Oncology (NASDAQ: LOXO ), and it has been designed to knock out tumors in which a gene called NTRK has abnormally fused to another gene. And more could be on the way.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

A 2014 article published by The Wall Street Journal describes the technology, officially known as a Quantum Photonic Imager (QPI), as miniature projectors, roughly the size of Tic Tacs, designed to emit crisp videos and 3-D images for smartphones and giant screens. In August, 2014, the Defense Department said it had awarded a $58.3

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Prior to joining Google, Sam worked at CNET, The Wall Street Journal Interactive and Ziff Davis and has over 15 years of experience selling media. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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Austin Start-up MailLift Joins 500 Startups

Tech Zulu Event

In June, The Wall Street Journal profiled McClure and 500 Startups’ unique model. Along with work-space and mentoring from global experts in design, distribution and every aspect of launching a business, MailLift received $50,000 in funding as part of the program.

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