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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

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It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs).

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Tech Startup Culture May Have Changed For Good

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Long hours in co-working offices with CEOs fresh from university with big ideas and a lot of vague, nebulous chat about platforms. It even banned the consumption of alcohol in the office in 2016, as well as fornicating in stairwells. They’re now trying to rebuild and reimagine their culture.

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Armed With $500K In Funding Withlocals Is Set to Launch Local Travel Experiences in Asia

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Online travel sales to grow by 200% by 2016. Beginning this fall, the beta launch will give groups the advantage of sampling the first experiences with the service and will lay the groundwork to grow the platform. There is increasing demand for more individual and authentic travel experiences.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

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And mid-course corrections are not bad things. You may have obstacles you were unprepared for, but these opportunities to learn and grow help you gain the experience and resiliency needed to run a successful company in a demanding industry. What are the technologies or things you think people ought to watch in 2016?

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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

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They just announced their Android app (you can download here if you’re on Android or the iOS version if you’re on that platform ). As the demands of my professional career grew my fantasy football record went down. The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature.

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