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 There aren’t a lot of venture funds that are led by a single general partner who happens to be a woman. Sonja Hoel Perkins is one. The longtime Menlo Ventures managing director founded her own venture firm two years ago. Cindy Padnos, who spent four years with Outlook Ventures as a director before founding her own firm, Illuminate Ventures, nine years ago, is another. Now Silicon Valley… Read More

Sramana Mitra: One of the things that I’d like to point out is we work with people at a very early stage. It’s not always viable to start with your own product. This is where the parallel…

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 After nearly a year, venture capitalists nabbed their first U.S. acquisition for more than a billion dollars. And it wasn’t a tech startup. Nor was it a company on the list of known unicorns. And it had nothing to do with blockchain. Read More

Company / App Name: Lounge Desks https://loungedesks.com Twitter – NA What does it do? ‘We’re unlocking the potential of some beautiful locations around London’, says the LoungeDesk CEO Klauss Andrei. The locations are diverse and scattered. Because LoungeDesk is building an associate network Why do we need it? Coworking spaces are expensive. People that have […]

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For New York City musicians, performing in the subway can provide extra pocket cash, a chance to practice their art, promotion until they stumble on the next opportunity, or even a modestly-paying career.

Performing for donations, also called busking, is legal ever since the constitutionality of a Depression-era ban was challenged in 1970 by poet Allen Ginsburg.

In 2013, we spoke to and photographed some of New York City’s subway musicians.

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Anyone can perform in the subways, so long as you don’t use amplification on the platform. Amplification is allowed on mezzanine levels however. Spots are first come, first serve and there is an extensive etiquette to avoid treading on other performers’ toes.

Manhattan-native Jacob G. Cohen is a cellist who has been busking full-time for over two years. He calls it a “real-life Kickstarter.” The exposure he’s gotten from busking helped fund a tour in Asia.

Hear his music here.

“I’m getting to play music all day, but not music where anyone has told me what to do. I have control over my whole life now, making more money, and meeting amazing people everyday,” says Cohen.

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Electric cars were supposed to be the future – or at least look like it. So now they’re here, why do they still look like ordinary petrol and diesel cars and not dazzling props from a science fiction film? Before they hit the market and became relatively mainstream, many imagined (or at least, hoped) that electric cars would resemble the Light Runner from Tron: Legacy. After all, without the need for an internal combustion engine, an exhaust system, and a fuel tank, electric car designers should have the creative freedom to rip up the rulebook and create some truly eye-catching…

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There are right and wrong ways to get a bartenders attention.
To figure out just what they are, we asked bartenders from around the world to weigh in.
Among the many faux pas, don’t ever yell, click your fingers — or even wave them. Bartenders …

 Today’s nationwide Women’s March attendees will advocate for voter registration through every conceivable social network, so one of its planning organizations has allied with a new app that lets you combine posts from across apps. Crunchet will help the Women’s March Alliance and Chicago march create collages of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, Spotify, and… Read More