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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. via DumboNYC.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

Among a package of some 50 support measures, the entrepreneurial strategy makes a reference to “smart regulation” and floats the idea of sandboxing for testing products publicly (i.e. “So first, for example, for investment — what if big companies start investing more and more than they are actually doing?

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

Nana has an unlikely founder story that speaks to how so much of the tech world is still about hustle and finding opportunities in the margins. Meanwhile, Nana estimates that the appliance repair market is a $4 billion opportunity, with some 80 million appliances in need to being serviced annually in the US. “There are 5.9