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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community. 33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show.

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Social network Peanut expands to include more women with launch of Peanut Menopause

TechCrunch

But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. Now, that will include menopause, as well — a life stage that will impact nearly half the world’s population at some point, but where opportunities there are few online communities where women can connect and learn. Image Credits: Peanut.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

At the time, the massively popular left-pad package had raked in more than 15 million downloads , and even today the library continues to be downloaded millions of times weekly. It puts extra scrutiny on any, and all, versions of the sabotaged project and it can hurt the community’s trust in the developer.

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How Influencers Can Legally Raise Capital for Funds and Companies

David Teten VC

My Partner Winter Mead, Founder & CEO of Coolwater Capital , the accelerator for emerging VC fund managers, said: “Fewer than 5 of the 180 emerging managers we’ve worked with are raising via 506c, in order to get in front of more retail LPs, who are generally already following the GP, e.g., through the GP’s newsletter or community.

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How to Get Your First 1,000 Mobile App Users

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. Instead, think about building a community (or joining an awesome existing one ).

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Luos is building an API to help embedded engineers connect easily to any hardware component

TechCrunch

To get things started, the startup seeded it with some common ones like motors, but an embedded developer can download the open source framework and create one anytime, and then share it with the community.

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Fitness app HealthifyMe to expand worldwide after raising $75M Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures

TechCrunch

In North America, it is popular among Indian expat and Indian American communities, and now it will target other customer segments, too. It has about 1,500 trainers and coaches on the platform, with plans to add 1,000 more to support its expansion. Weight-loss platform Noom bulks up on $540 million in new funding. Today in the U.S.,