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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

The group says they took inspiration from similar community-oriented tech incubators in Atlanta like the Russel Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs , PROPEL Center and Gathering Spot , but Collab Studio will focus more specifically on the entertainment industry. Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity.

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How Tuition.IO Is Helping To Tame Student Debt, One Employee At A Time

socalTECH

However, for an entire generation of employees�particularly, those coming out of school now�saving for retirement is completely overshadowed by the far more pressing, crushing burden of student debt. Brendon McQueen: The idea behind the platform, is that over 70 percent of college graduates today have college loans. billion dollars.

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

Tech Zulu Event

According to SGL, developers can now submit their apps for review and have their press releases and updates distributed on the Stained Glass Labs website, which gives them the quick feedback from other developers and the ability to submit press releases, which are sent to members of the media interested in Google Glass and wearable technologies.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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Paying It Forward: Amanda Bensol of Karma Wi-Fi

Tech Zulu Event

Amidst the search she found her way working with NYC based incubator Techstars as an associate. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator. They’ll tell friends, which helps us get more press and exposure.” She wanted to get involved, which led her to startups. From Techstars to Karma.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept). I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform. And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective.

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