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WillyBoy

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    Comment #7375576

    Thanks! We're hoping to do a lotttt more with this :)

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    Comment #7374874

    We're not handling SVGs with initial transformations right now. Will have that out by the end of the week though. Check back then!

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    Comment #7374551

    Useful for creating fonts from SVGs. Supports multiple paths/shapes and even has an editor to make changes to your SVGs when uploaded.

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    Crowdsourcing a marketing plan: A $1,000 shared prize

    I thought this would be interesting. PieceWise is trying to crowdsource a marketing plan with lots of crazy ideas. Thoughts on whether this is going to work? There's some cool feat…

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    Comment #3572926

    Understanding the risks and ignoring the risks are two entirely different things... The current law basically says that anyone without $1 million and $200k in the bank is too stupi…

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    Comment #3572818

    Seed numbers: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/crunchcrunch/

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    Comment #3572807

    Actually that's flat out wrong. 2011- 1,100 seeded startups. 2004- Year Facebook formed. 2012-Facebook's valuation: est. $100 billion. If you say that 1,100 companies are seeded a …

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    Comment #3572746

    Going public is incredibly expensive and is only worth it if you're needing to raise $50million+. A small company therefore doesn't have access to the public markets nor do the pub…

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    Comment #3572632

    When you do the math on $10 in Facebook stock at founding vs. what it's worth now, you find out that you could have invested in 20,000 startups and even if every single one of them…

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    Comment #3572604

    Well written article for explaining to someone new the "risks"/rewards of passing crowdfunding legislation.

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    Comment #3572563

    If the legislation passes, will the intermediary companies be responsible for educating the roughly 230 million new investors in the country or will the government take an active r…

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    Comment #3572542

    I think I saw that two of the spots for this workaway are being given away as a prize for the AngelHack competition(?) I'd go just to be able to spend time working with that kind o…