startups
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Closing the Deal: A Conversation with Mateo Askaripour
Mateo Askaripour discusses his debut novel, BLACK BUCK.
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Tech Is Boring: Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Luckily, Wiener offers us more than eloquent masochism.
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The Business of Making Art: A Conversation with Beatriz Ramos
Beatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet’s potential for visual artists.
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The Eternal Hunt for Relevance: Doree Shafrir Discusses Startup
Doree Shafrir discusses her debut novel, Startup, the differences between journalism and fiction, and why she chose to tell this particular story.
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Weekly Geekery
Your brain on stories. (Or, molecular effects of Star Wars.) Read books, live longer… …but only Toni Morrison or Salman Rushdie will make you live better. Mapping the human condition on 10,000 New Yorkers. Startup culture meets culture culture. Afrofuturistic science…
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Party Bus
Somewhere, fortieth birthdays are cause for black napkins that say “Over the Hill”, for mourning the death of your childbearing years, and settling into mid-life stagnation. Not here.
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How Writing Helped Connu’s Founders with Business
Last year, writers Susannah Luthi and Niree Perian launched Connu, a sort of literary magazine in app form that curates short stories for readers. (We blogged about their Kickstarter campaign back in June.) You’d think creating apps and writing fiction…
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“I Bet You Could Sell Thousands of Them”
If there’s anything we in the United States know about economics, it’s that all you need to get rich is a stalwart work ethic and an original idea. If you also happen to have an MBA from Stanford to help…
