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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

I've seen about a dozen companies in the last year trying to help me figure out what to do with my time and how to collaborate with my friends around events. Companies like Publicstuff and Votizen that help us connect with our elected officials and local governments are going to get a lot of dollars and attention this year. Calendaring.

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Former Zillow execs raise $70M seed round for Tomo, which wants to simplify the mortgage process

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Ribbit Capital led the financing, which also included participation from DST Global, NFX and Zigg Capital. Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5 That’s a massive seed round by any standards (the third-largest in the U.S.,

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups

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Now, everyone sees Google as this huge company with endless products and expansive teams, but back in 2005 when I worked there, it didn’t seem like a megacompany. Finally, always agree on a clear set of objectives and key results (OKRs) to ensure focus, prioritization and collaboration.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

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I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. But it really helped them in a tricky time when we were scaling quickly and they had to collaborate on a bunch of things that we were building for the first time. She’s got an English degree and an MBA. And I joined as a customer support rep.

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Why the Former President of Nickelodeon Joined mitú as CEO.

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billion to finance US startups.) There are some powerful stats by the Latino Donor Collaborative that show just how powerful Latinos have become in economic development. 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. (We = my father is from Colombia, South America, immigrated to the U.S.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. Terrorism at scale can only occur when these organizations can move money around to finance people who make bombs, buy guns, train recruits and so forth. boom where many companies had deeply inflated values.