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Thumbs Up On Gatekeepers, But Who… And How?

YoungUpstarts

Aggregators. We’ve seen the rise of aggregators like Goodreads , Booklikes , Shelfari , and Red Room , who play the role of gatekeepers by allowing anyone to rate books, post reviews, and then collect the panoply of opinions in one place. If you’re not part of the community, you may not know everything that goes into it.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. And one startup – Brickstarter – has decided to take it to the another level and design a system that allows communities to build their own sustainable and improvement projects.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. I started to go to some community college classes on programming and things like that, and started to build early websites.

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