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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined.

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Dorian’s no-code, interactive storytelling app turns fiction writers into game developers

TechCrunch

As an interactive storytelling platform, Dorian is building a new way for writers to make money off of their fiction by turning their tales into choose-your-own-adventure mobile games. I think the biggest inspiration and the idea here is, how can we enable more people to participate in the games industry?”. Image Credits: Dorian.

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! To celebrate our anniversary, I’m sharing a few pivotal lessons I have learned during each of these wonderful years. I was nervous!

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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NYC's Innovation Community: What Came Before and What Comes nextNY

This is going to be BIG.

These days, it's kind of hard to miss what's going on in the NYC startup community. That's why the early efforts to build NYC's community were so impactful, even if the people who are just joining the ecosystem today don't realize what came before. Two key efforts really set the tone for the community we have today.

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Climbing for a Cause: Dave Bacon Shares How He’s Making an Impact

Entrepreneurs' Organization

These confidential meetings with seven to 10 peers are a highly rated benefit of membership. This big, audacious goal would meet a number of my objectives for personal, community, leadership and family development. My wife and her mother had met an eye doctor in a Maasai village, who explained that the community needed a school.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.