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Connecting People Over Food, With SupperKing and Kai Stubble

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Kai Stubble: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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Connecting People Over Food, With SupperKing and Kai Stubbe

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Kai Stubbe: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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How ChowNow Delivers Mobile Orders For Restaurants, With Christopher Webb

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We then spent the first half of 2012 beta testing the product, getting feedback and input to the point where we could start selling it. We launched it in March of 2012, at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago, took a booth, got lots of press, and we've been selling it every since. The platform can be divided into three products.

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Venture Outlook 2016

Both Sides of the Table

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Here is the Wikipedia definition of a bubble.

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Crowd Funding Has Not Killed Angel Investing Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2012. I just don’t see it happening any time soon.

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Angel Investors Are Still The Lifeblood Of Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. Compliance is definitely a regulatory burden, and could become a nightmare. Neither does David S.

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This Super Cool B-Corp Is Changing The Nonprofit World

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I first got the idea on a cold night during the winter of 2012 in San Francisco when I walked passed a homeless woman sleeping on the street. Greathouse : From the outside looking it, it seems that HandUp is an ideal platform for corporations to give their employees a meaningful way to give back.

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