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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

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Digital avatar startup Genies , known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.” ” Genies CEO and founder Akash Nigam. ” Genies CEO and founder Akash Nigam. Image Credits: Genies.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? We call this a "Genie," and you can build a Genie using Knowledge Genie. How did the company start?

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Comparably.com, Led By Jason Nazar, Raises $6.5M For Pay Transparency, Culture

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in a funding round, and launched a new platform to help people compare pay and culture between companies. Nazar was the founder of Docstoc, which he sold to Intuit; his co-founders include George Ishii (Yammer/Geni), Mike Sheridan (DebtMarket), and Yadid Ramot (Investedin). READ MORE>>.

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Yammer Bails On Los Angeles, Heading To Silicon Valley

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Sacks said that Geni, which spun out Yammer, remains in West Hollywood. Yammer provides a Twitter-like corporate microblogging platform, essentially a version of Twitter restricted to specific corporate domains. The firm was spun out in September 2008 from Geni, and is backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund.

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The makers of the virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, snag real money from Silicon Valley

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The account “hack” was architected by brud as part of an ongoing virtual reality drama playing out on Instagram and other social media platforms between avatars it had developed, all designed to attract media attention, according to people with knowledge of brud and its plans. ” That was a lie. It worked. .

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

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Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. For highlighting what is uniquely LA, for adhering to a strict quality standard for speakers and for building this great platform for the future Francisco Dao (aka “ The Man ”) should feel proud of what he has accomplished.

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