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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. I have been on every end of the business in terms of journalism and publishing. Journalism is stronger than ever, but the outlets are fragmented.

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TT Games Opens UK Studio for Lego Mobile Video Games

L.A. Business Journal

TT Games, makers of the Lego video game franchise published by Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment in Burbank, has announced the opening of TT Games Brighton, a new UK-based development studio focused on creating new Lego games designed for mobile platforms.

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Social Search – What Entrepreneur Needs To Know

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These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace. It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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Deborah Ramo: Amavitae, which means "love life" in Latin, is a mobile-first platform to help the emerging workforce find a career that they will love and have a natural aptitude for, and to help them understand what careers are growing and will be around in the future. So how does a user use the platform? What is your app all about?

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck. In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). We're basically putting those two pieces together.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.". “We started sending out the newsletter. in September of 1999. It was really no longer than a page um. every three weeks. Lessons Learned.