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If you've ever overpaid for a legal document, sign up for Docracy, First Round's newest investment

This is going to be BIG.

Nerd Alert" didn't get funded, unfortunately, but I'm pretty sure that was a major oversight on the investment community. :). Plus, I'd make the argument that Docracy's initial userbase will be people who otherwise wouldn't have went to a lawyer at all, going without documentation or using something probably not appropriate for them.

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Why Docracy is the Most Revolutionary Company of Our Time

This is going to be BIG.

Building collaboration tools is the next logical step after they've already built the only free open source depository of legal documents --similar to how Github isn't just a place to store your code, but to work on it with others. It’s not enough to just release a project into the community. It’s not collaboration.

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The Importance of Building & Maintaining Great Developer Documentation

Tomasz Tunguz

Developer documentation is one of the differentiators in developer community building efforts. If you’re an engineer, and you hear about an interesting project, the first place you’ll land is the documentation. How should B2D companies invest in their documentation? Industry 4.0

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Important Updates for Startups on the PPP and the CARES Act

Dream It

Apply through your company’s primary bank, or consider community banks and non-bank SBA-lenders for faster processing. Banks that have gone live include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, and many community banks, among others. UPDATE over $1,800,000,000 #PPPloan now processed by @SBAgov mostly all from community banks.

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How an ex-cop turned entrepreneur gives back by combatting human trafficking

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I documented the ups and downs I experienced in my true-crime thriller, The Good Line.). With my extensive knowledge in complex investigations involving trafficking organizations, I thought, “How can we give back to our community?”. Tell us about Operation Rose and its community impact. Nashville citizens were left vulnerable.

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What a community means in the modern world of startups

TechCrunch

“We believe that a thriving community is a company’s most valuable asset,” Community-led writes in its Declaration. “Community scales your business, resources and presence in ways that traditional marketing or advertising channels can’t.

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Connect Your Startup Community through Content Creation

Ecosystem Builder Hub

There is another mechanism that ecosystem builders can use to have a huge impact connecting their communities—create and maintain an online hub of information about your startup community. While the engaging, heartwarming stories about entrepreneurs are great, we also need to share the more mundane happenings in our community.