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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

If you find the right community it’s a great way to learn, contribute and get to know other people with similar interest. Basically, it’s a topic community discussion board and that’s why people go to AVC.com every day. AVC: I’ve always loved Q&A websites and discussion boards.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

GrabCAD & Professional Communities. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. GrabCAD continues to grow like a weed with over 70,000 mechanical engineers who have downloaded CAD models from the community over 1.2

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , SF Business Times.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. One hundred and fifty entrepreneurs and community members attended the monthly conference, which alternates between Tallinn and Helsinki. A two hour ferry ride across the Bay of Finland carried us from Tallinn to Helsinki.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings. Joining us in the syndicate are Lerer Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Fuel Capital. It’s indispensable.”

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Magentooffers flexible, scalable eCommerce solutions, it’s Community Edition is free and includes a number of key features such as: an admin panel, user profiles, installation wizard, email notifications, product catalog toolkit, sales reports, themes, SSL support and more.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Products that were previously not inherently social, will embrace community, stories and sharing to increase stickiness and drive revenue. It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year.