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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. Richard Liew: Well, you guys have had a few changes in the way you deliver programs over the years.

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The unusual story of an unusual company – Melanie Langlotz and Geo AR Games 

NZ Entrepreneur

Then in 2011, I came up with the idea which eventually became Magical Park, the world’s first digital playground. RageQuit eventually became part of Geo AR Games – a great example of game studio collaboration. “So And oftentimes, it’s better to collaborate with others rather than just compete. Is it going to be holograms?

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment. Github makes open source better by making great collaboration tools. It’s not collaboration.

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

TechCrunch

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. CEO Khusid told TechCrunch he considers the company a “pioneer of visual collaboration,” with its early days as a digital whiteboard. However, with statistics showing that 53% of the U.S.

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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

Source Link

In 2011, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce had a bold vision: to make Kansas City America’s most entrepreneurial city. Another important key to sustainability is collaboration, and our SourceLink affiliates find tremendous value in having access to an open exchange of ideas across the national network.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform. Enterprise collaboration? Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Total Raised: $17.7mm. File sharing?

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to watch my interview from 7 years ago it’s here or you can read the summary notes I wrote up ) Derek built Startup Grind from 2011 with 20 people in one room for a conference into a global phenomenon with 600 chapters all over the world and more than 2 million members. It’s the opposite of community.