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News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more US metros

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It has now added to the list of partners local news service Patch and ProPublica, including its Local Reporting Network partners and its collaborative journalism project Electionland. Meanwhile, the ProPublica Local Reporting Network funds and jointly publishes year-long investigative projects with 23 local news organizations across the U.S.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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We now serve many large clients like Dish Networks, Dignity Health, and U.S. Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly

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MalibuIQ, HRL Team On Commercialization Effort

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Malibu-based MalibuIQ and HRL Laboratories , the former research and development arm of Hughes Aircraft which was previously known as Hughes Research Laboratories, said Tuesday that they have tied together to commercialize inventions and IP from HRL. Size of the investment was not disclosed.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP.

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

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Vanessa Dawson: The Vinetta Project is an entreneurial ecosystem and deal flow pipeline that works with early stage, female tech founders, and helps them to access both resources and capital for their business. What's the best way for women to get over that hurdle of building a network? What is The Vinetta Project?

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Interview with Ken Hubbard, Intelicloud

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Speaking to them and their CEO, they had a problem, which was they were having a hard time scaling and managing their services using traditional models--traditional network architecture, and traditional network equipment. It scaled beautifully, and they asked us if we could build them a network.

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