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How do you get a $4 million second round from Google Ventures at age 21?
Dec 28th
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Ask Seth Priebatsch, the founder of SCVNGR.
SCVNGR offers a platform for businesses, universities and museums to build real-world, location-based games. Some are exactly what the name implies — a scavenger hunt with clues from your phone. Cities use them in tourism campaigns to promote places, while museums use them to point out works [...]
80legs sets its web crawler free (via postie)
Dec 22nd
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When 80legs launched its web crawling service at DEMO (a conference co-produced by VentureBeat) last fall, chief executive Shion Deysarkar told me he wanted to place tools previously exclusive to web giants within the reach of smaller companies, so that someone could, for example, build their own “mini-Google.” Now he’s taking that  philosophy [...]
