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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

TechCrunch LA

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

Both Sides of the Table

I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund? Hard Problems I encourage entrepreneurs to try and tackle harder problems even if it makes fund raising more difficult and is less likely to succeed. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin

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There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. We also will be providing options for more guidance, and a subscription model, as well, which will provide more educational information if you have a subscription.

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How You Should Start a Business Before the Bubble

Startup Professionals Musings

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). As a result, entrepreneurs often spend unwisely, or chase a bad idea way too far without measuring results.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Why Computer Vision Has Become a Major Investment Theme for Me

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Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. His co-founder and COO, Andy Berman , made the smart move from being a young VC to becoming an entrepreneur.

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

Both Sides of the Table

And when the tides turned towards more inclusiveness I cheered it on whether it was on this blog or through Twitter / Facebook / Snapchat. Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa. I felt it was both a business issue and a human issue and deserved to have support of non-gay leaders.

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