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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. They can have some longer term impacts through educational institutions. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out.

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Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

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But something happened during my Thanksgiving break that has me so extremely pissed off at the predatory practices of a financial institution the preys on the elderly, less educated and lower-income people that can least afford it. Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. I hope you’re OK with that. Background.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US.

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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

TechCrunch

Financed by private investors, and media conglomerate Vivendi, the company declined to disclose its total capital raised to date. It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. The product will be available to the public by the end of month.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Finance where needed. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. That can only come through education, training and investment in regions of the country that are not IT centers. We thought the following: No new deals close until we figure out WTF is going on with the market. We need some visibility.

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Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M round for Brazilian fintech Cora

TechCrunch

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005. million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

In contrast to America, he points out how Sweden is among the most successful societies in the world from a social mobility perspective — referencing its free education and free health care, which sets up as many people as possible for success. “We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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