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How Raya’s $8/month dating app turned exclusivity into trust
The swipe is where the similarity ends. Raya is less like Tinder and more like a secret society. You need a member’s recommendations or a lot of friends inside to join, and you have to apply with an...
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Polywork gets $3.5M to blend professional and social networking
Life is complicated and so — increasingly — is work-life. That’s the premise underpinning Polywork, a new professional social network founded by Lystable/Kalo founder, Peter Johnson. It’s announcing a...
View ArticleGet ready to connect with speed networking at TC Sessions: Robotics
In less than two weeks, on July 21 to be precise, the global robotics and AI community will converge online for TC Sessions: Robotics. Engage with the leading visionaries, scientists, founders, makers...
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Dot429: A Fast-Growing, Multi-Platform LinkedIn For The Gay Community
When it comes to networking, there is no shortage of ways to connect with other professionals to talk shop. LinkedIn has become the most popular professional networking platform, with over 100 million...
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Enough With Social Stalking: Business-Focused INTRO App Will Let Members...
INTRO, the ambient location app whose claim-to-fame is how it’s angling to become the “LinkedIn” of the social/local people-stalking space, is now increasing its business-oriented focus. With the iOS...
View ArticleGamifying The Job Search: Identified Hits 10M Users, Nabs $21M In Series B...
“People crave feedback on their professional lives,” say Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, co-founders and co-CEOs of Identified, a young San Francisco-based startup that has been hard at work at...
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AfterCollege Relaunches, Looks To Build A LinkedIn For College Students And...
AfterCollege launched in 1999 as a simple job board for entry-level positions. In spite of a bubble burst and more than a decade in between, the company soldiered on, staying afloat (and profitable)...
View ArticleThe Biggest Threat To LinkedIn: The Power Of Many, Not One
Given how well LinkedIn has been doing of late, the headline for this post may seem a bit out of place. Just a few days ago, LinkedIn yet again exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, posting strong third...
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Iraq Veterans Launch RallyPoint: A LinkedIn For The Military (And Life After)
In spite of the commitment the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces have made to their country, and the lip service paid to veterans and current service men and women during elections season, the...
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Zerply Adds Work Images And Promoted Opportunities To Help Job Candidates...
Professional networking and profile startup Zerply is introducing two new features today to help its members better advertise their skills and to help employers better source candidates for open...
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Yelp Cuts Losses In Q1 To $4.8M, Sees Revenue Jump 68% To $46M And Record...
Yelp, the local online business and restaurant guide that first launched in the U.S. in 2004 and now lives in 21 countries and 12 languages, and has more than 100 million monthly unique visitors as of...
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Identified Looks To Solve Social Media’s Dirty Data Problem For Recruiters...
Today, Identified has unveiled its patent-pending, artificial intelligence technology called “SYMAN,” which aims to organize the masses of disparate, incoherent professional data that lives in our...
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Shapr Raises $3 Million For Its Business Networking Mobile App
A New York and Paris-based startup called Shapr has raised $3 million to build a better way to professionally network with others in your industry. However, unlike business networking giant LinkedIn,...
View ArticleBumble is going to help you find your next job with BumbleBizz
I hate networking. Or at least the type of networking that consists of awkward happy hours where no one knows each other and you’re approached every five seconds by some over-eager “networker” who...
View ArticleWaiting for the right professional network
I recently asked an investor for some SEO advice (because he had run B2C companies). He came on a call to give his opinions on what we had done till then with SEO. I thanked him on LinkedIn. A few...
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Ripple, a Tinder spin-off backed by Match, launches app for professional...
A team of former Tinder employees, led by Tinder’s original CTO Ryan Ogle, are today launching a new app aimed at professional networking. The app, called Ripple, aims to be a sort of mobile-first...
View ArticleFor immigrant founders in the UK, office hours with VCs are rocket fuel
Lyubov Guk Contributor Share on Twitter Lyubov Guk is a founding partner at Blue Lake VC. She supports early-stage international founders working in the U.K. Robyn Klingler-Vidra Contributor Robyn...
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Meet Pineapple, the platform aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z
Pineapple, an app that’s aiming to reshape professional networking for Gen Z, is officially launching to the public today. The idea behind Pineapple is to give young professionals a way to network with...
View ArticleHow to spin up an investing network from scratch as a first-time founder
Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you don’t happen to be part of a social or economic circle where striking up early...
View ArticleHow to get warm introductions to investors
Okay, so you’ve created a comprehensive list of investors you want to talk to. Now how the hell do you meet them? A vanishingly small number of investors will look at any pitch — GoAhead ventures is...
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