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<p>SKILLSHARE EVERYWHERE. <strong><a href="http://skillshare.com">Skillshare</a></strong> had two big announcements yesterday: 1) the democratized education platform is available in "every major city" in the U.S. now, and 2) CEO <strong>Mike Karnjanaprakhorn</strong> has been <a href="http://www.ted.com/pages/ted2012_fellows">named one of 12 TED fellows in 2012</a>.</p>
<p>FORRST RANGERS. The developer community <strong>Forrst</strong> has started <a href="http://forrst.com/hire/bb">posting jobs</a>. Bring it on, <strong>Stack Overflow</strong>.</p>
<p>SAVE AMIT. The campaign for <strong>Amit Gupta</strong> <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/7603382517/207353166/225801719/1362920/goto:http://amitguptaneedsyou.com">continues</a>! Upcoming: bone marrow drive in Delhi and swabbing party in Somerville and much, much more.</p>
<p>DREAM TEAM. <strong>New Work City</strong> is joining forces with the hackers of <strong><a rel="NYC Resistor" href="http://e2ma.net/go/7603382517/207353166/225801717/1362920/goto:http://www.nycresistor.com/" target="_blank">NYC Resistor</a></strong> to cross-promote events. Synergy!</p>
<p>XX INNOVATION LUNCH. "I’m super psyched for my lunch this Friday," <strong>Charlie O'Donnell</strong> wrote in his newsletter this week.  "<strong>Marissa Campise</strong> from <strong>Venrock</strong> and <strong>Sarah Tavel</strong> from <strong>Bessemer</strong> are co-hosting a lunch with me for up and coming women entrepreneurs to get a chance to meet venture investors."<!--more--></p>
<p>CLINGLE! "It’s time to <strong>Clingle</strong>! <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.mycityway.com/" target="_blank">MyCityWay</a></span></strong>, developer of the popular urban city apps has launched <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://clingle.com/index.php" target="_blank">Clingle</a></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">,</span> a first-of-its-kind personalized mega-utility location-based social network ... What is Clingle? Clingle is a social network that connects people with their friends and the world around them. One of the most unique features of Clingle are '<strong>Clings</strong>'--personal messages (text, pictures, audio and coming soon, video) that can be left for friends at favorite locations, and only unlocked by them when they check-in. The app is brought to you by the same team who created MyCityWay, a BMW iVenture backed and 2009 NYC Big Apps award-winning app. The free app can be downloaded from the iTunes store at: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clingle/id449924410?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clingle/id449924410?mt=8</a>.</p>
<p>ADD TO NESTIO. <strong><a href="http://nestio.com">Nestio.com</a></strong>, a real estate listings manager, a week ago launched support for nationwide listings  and announced a partnership with eBay to include "add to Nestio" buttons on every listing.</p>
<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY. <strong>Wanderfly</strong> is a year old and has "inspired 4 million trips with users from 217 countries, won a Webby nomination, Top 10 Startup by Time Inc. &amp; Top 100 Brilliant Companies by Entrepreneur, and launched our recommendation technology on 1000 NYTimes.com pages." And made themselves a <strong><a href="http://www.wanderfly.com/one-year-infographic">birthday infographic</a>.</strong></p>
<p>IMMACULATE LAUNCH. "Over the last two and a half years, a community of like minded individuals in good taste has formed around <strong><a href="http://immaculateinfatuation.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e781cf503f01fcb670f754ddb&amp;id=7a61ecd0d4&amp;e=dd1b988fb7" target="_blank">Immaculate Infatuation</a></strong>. Co-founded by <strong>Chris Stang</strong> and <strong>Andrew Steinthal</strong>, two music business executives, Immaculate Infatuation has become NYC's go-to resource for honest, no bullsh*t restaurant reviews." <strong>Coolio </strong>and <strong>Gary Vaynerchuk</strong> are users.</p>
<p>MONIES. "<strong><a href="http://opensky.com/" target="_blank">OpenSky.com</a></strong>, the shopping destination that allows members to design their ideal shopping experience curated by some of the world’s most interesting people, today announced it has secured <strong>$30 million financing</strong> from new and current investors.  New investor <strong>Providence Equity Partners</strong> led the financing, which included participation from existing investors <strong>Highland Capital Partners</strong>, <strong>Canaan Partners</strong> and <strong>The Raine Group</strong>."</p>
<p>"<strong>GramercyOne</strong> is developer of cloud-based booking, business management, and marketing software used by more than 2500 businesses worldwide.Today, we’re announcing that the company has raised <strong>$14.5 million in Series A funding</strong> round led by <strong>Revolution Ventures</strong> (chaired by AOL founder <strong>Steve Case</strong>)."</p>
<p>TECHIES FOR CHARITY. A formal group of NYC technology and advertising executives will run the <strong>New York City Marathon</strong> on November 6 and raise money for Camp Interactive, "a 10-year-old non-profit that exposes inner-city kids to both technology and the outdoors that is very active here in NYC." The <strong>Team InterActive</strong> NYC Marathon team consists of: Matt Siegel, COO and Co-Founder of IndabaMusic; Toby Daniels, CEO of Crowdcentric; Peter Miron, CTO of Knewton; Michelle DeForest, Director of Marketing and Strategy at DOTGO; David Pashman, Legal Team Leader at Meetup; James Cooper, Chief Creative Innovation Officer at JWT and more. "As of October 24, the team has raised more than $47,000 for the organization and hopes to bring in $100,000 total."</p>
<p>WE ARE ALL A VC. On Thursday, a <a href="http://www.meetup.com/AVC/New-York-NY/366362/">meetup</a> for readers of the <strong>Fred Wilson</strong> blog.</p>
<p>WHO'S HIRING? <strong>RollingStone.com</strong> listed a job in this week's Inside Startups newsletter--but it's not for a developer. Want to be a national director of digital ad sales? "Candidate will be a seasoned sales executive who will execute an aggressive growth plan to grow the overall digital business."</p>
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<p>SKILLSHARE EVERYWHERE. <strong><a href="http://skillshare.com">Skillshare</a></strong> had two big announcements yesterday: 1) the democratized education platform is available in "every major city" in the U.S. now, and 2) CEO <strong>Mike Karnjanaprakhorn</strong> has been <a href="http://www.ted.com/pages/ted2012_fellows">named one of 12 TED fellows in 2012</a>.</p>
<p>FORRST RANGERS. The developer community <strong>Forrst</strong> has started <a href="http://forrst.com/hire/bb">posting jobs</a>. Bring it on, <strong>Stack Overflow</strong>.</p>
<p>SAVE AMIT. The campaign for <strong>Amit Gupta</strong> <a href="http://e2ma.net/go/7603382517/207353166/225801719/1362920/goto:http://amitguptaneedsyou.com">continues</a>! Upcoming: bone marrow drive in Delhi and swabbing party in Somerville and much, much more.</p>
<p>DREAM TEAM. <strong>New Work City</strong> is joining forces with the hackers of <strong><a rel="NYC Resistor" href="http://e2ma.net/go/7603382517/207353166/225801717/1362920/goto:http://www.nycresistor.com/" target="_blank">NYC Resistor</a></strong> to cross-promote events. Synergy!</p>
<p>XX INNOVATION LUNCH. "I’m super psyched for my lunch this Friday," <strong>Charlie O'Donnell</strong> wrote in his newsletter this week.  "<strong>Marissa Campise</strong> from <strong>Venrock</strong> and <strong>Sarah Tavel</strong> from <strong>Bessemer</strong> are co-hosting a lunch with me for up and coming women entrepreneurs to get a chance to meet venture investors."<!--more--></p>
<p>CLINGLE! "It’s time to <strong>Clingle</strong>! <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.mycityway.com/" target="_blank">MyCityWay</a></span></strong>, developer of the popular urban city apps has launched <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://clingle.com/index.php" target="_blank">Clingle</a></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">,</span> a first-of-its-kind personalized mega-utility location-based social network ... What is Clingle? Clingle is a social network that connects people with their friends and the world around them. One of the most unique features of Clingle are '<strong>Clings</strong>'--personal messages (text, pictures, audio and coming soon, video) that can be left for friends at favorite locations, and only unlocked by them when they check-in. The app is brought to you by the same team who created MyCityWay, a BMW iVenture backed and 2009 NYC Big Apps award-winning app. The free app can be downloaded from the iTunes store at: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clingle/id449924410?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clingle/id449924410?mt=8</a>.</p>
<p>ADD TO NESTIO. <strong><a href="http://nestio.com">Nestio.com</a></strong>, a real estate listings manager, a week ago launched support for nationwide listings  and announced a partnership with eBay to include "add to Nestio" buttons on every listing.</p>
<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY. <strong>Wanderfly</strong> is a year old and has "inspired 4 million trips with users from 217 countries, won a Webby nomination, Top 10 Startup by Time Inc. &amp; Top 100 Brilliant Companies by Entrepreneur, and launched our recommendation technology on 1000 NYTimes.com pages." And made themselves a <strong><a href="http://www.wanderfly.com/one-year-infographic">birthday infographic</a>.</strong></p>
<p>IMMACULATE LAUNCH. "Over the last two and a half years, a community of like minded individuals in good taste has formed around <strong><a href="http://immaculateinfatuation.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e781cf503f01fcb670f754ddb&amp;id=7a61ecd0d4&amp;e=dd1b988fb7" target="_blank">Immaculate Infatuation</a></strong>. Co-founded by <strong>Chris Stang</strong> and <strong>Andrew Steinthal</strong>, two music business executives, Immaculate Infatuation has become NYC's go-to resource for honest, no bullsh*t restaurant reviews." <strong>Coolio </strong>and <strong>Gary Vaynerchuk</strong> are users.</p>
<p>MONIES. "<strong><a href="http://opensky.com/" target="_blank">OpenSky.com</a></strong>, the shopping destination that allows members to design their ideal shopping experience curated by some of the world’s most interesting people, today announced it has secured <strong>$30 million financing</strong> from new and current investors.  New investor <strong>Providence Equity Partners</strong> led the financing, which included participation from existing investors <strong>Highland Capital Partners</strong>, <strong>Canaan Partners</strong> and <strong>The Raine Group</strong>."</p>
<p>"<strong>GramercyOne</strong> is developer of cloud-based booking, business management, and marketing software used by more than 2500 businesses worldwide.Today, we’re announcing that the company has raised <strong>$14.5 million in Series A funding</strong> round led by <strong>Revolution Ventures</strong> (chaired by AOL founder <strong>Steve Case</strong>)."</p>
<p>TECHIES FOR CHARITY. A formal group of NYC technology and advertising executives will run the <strong>New York City Marathon</strong> on November 6 and raise money for Camp Interactive, "a 10-year-old non-profit that exposes inner-city kids to both technology and the outdoors that is very active here in NYC." The <strong>Team InterActive</strong> NYC Marathon team consists of: Matt Siegel, COO and Co-Founder of IndabaMusic; Toby Daniels, CEO of Crowdcentric; Peter Miron, CTO of Knewton; Michelle DeForest, Director of Marketing and Strategy at DOTGO; David Pashman, Legal Team Leader at Meetup; James Cooper, Chief Creative Innovation Officer at JWT and more. "As of October 24, the team has raised more than $47,000 for the organization and hopes to bring in $100,000 total."</p>
<p>WE ARE ALL A VC. On Thursday, a <a href="http://www.meetup.com/AVC/New-York-NY/366362/">meetup</a> for readers of the <strong>Fred Wilson</strong> blog.</p>
<p>WHO'S HIRING? <strong>RollingStone.com</strong> listed a job in this week's Inside Startups newsletter--but it's not for a developer. Want to be a national director of digital ad sales? "Candidate will be a seasoned sales executive who will execute an aggressive growth plan to grow the overall digital business."</p>
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