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Stonemaier Games and the Business of Fun

The Motley Fool

We're each going to bring a story that educates, one that amuses, and one that enriches. Over eight years, the biggest things that have changed are that we stopped using crowdfunding. Jamey Stegmaier: Really, I'm glad you said it that way, because it isn't a knock on crowdfunding or Kickstarter. I really appreciate that.

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Startup Success: How to Fund Your Business Without Going Broke

The Motley Fool

I know that isn't a great stat to start an article about funding your startup, but it's important to go into business with a clear understanding of the risks. The Small Business Administration provides grants for veterans, community organizations, and educational organizations. Small business loans Not all debt is bad debt.

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DefendCrypto.org

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

While some of those offerings were scams or worse , many of the ones that are being investigated by the SEC are serious projects, started by some of the top cryptographers and computer scientists in the world, and backed by the leading token funds and venture capital firms in the US and around the world. But that has not worked.

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Funding Friday: ARAS Art Education for Teens

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I backed this art program for teens this morning. I think summer programs for kids are important and particularly important this summer when we are hopefully beginning to emerge from more than a year of remote learning and social distancing. For email readers, you can see the video here.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. Name the building in New York City that played host to Run-DMC's last show that also gave birth to three companies that got venture funded in the last year.

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Funding Friday: Pattern Alphabet cards for exploring nature

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Longtime AVC reader Alex Wolf has a Kickstarter project that I think is awesome. She has long been working on a “pattern alphabet” to encode the patterns of nature and life. This project turns this alphabet into cards that can be used by kids in school and at home to learn.

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Funding Friday: ROAR

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

So I want this Funding Friday to be for people like her, who have given a large part of who they are to serving us. I can’t get her words and the images and emotions they convey out of my head. And the cause I’ve selected is ROAR , Relief Opportunities for All Restaurants. You can follow them here: ROAR’s Twitter.

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