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		<title>The outlook for Bay Area startup space in 2017</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/the-outlook-for-bay-area-startup-space-in-2017/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things to do is riff on Bay Area real estate and tech  --  of all kinds, residential, commercial, retail ... and Justin Bedecarre has been working with San Francisco founders for almost a decade in the commercial real estate market. He’s now a founder of HelloOffice, a technology-powered commercial real estate brokerage. We talk about what 2017 holds for the office market.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>With voter verification, Brigade becomes a more legitimate platform for political debate</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/21/brigade-voter-verification/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Brigade, the political advocacy platform backed by Sean Parker and made from the early team of Causes, has come a longer way in the last six months. Originally unveiled as a really simple way to agree or disagree with political positions, Brigade has evolved into a more robust site for debating policy and political topics. Instead of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OpenVote launches a publishing platform, crowd-voting tool for political debate</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/09/openvote-launches-a-publishing-platform-crowdvoting-tool-for-political-debate/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OpenVote, the political startup from early Facebook designer Bobby Goodlatte and Sean McCann, is unveiling a larger publishing platform where people can debate policies and pledge their votes. Before becoming a prominent designer at Facebook, Goodlatte grew up with politics in his family. For almost all of Goodlatte&#8217;s life, his father has served as a Republican [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A global experiment in Roam co-living</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/17/a-global-experiment-in-co-living/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Update: I decided to leave this company and am no longer affiliated with Roam Co-Living. Although this work will mostly be outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, I’ll still weigh in and write occasionally on tech, political and local land-use issues as a columnist. There are several motivations behind this: The Bay Area’s governance, land-use and taxation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AngelList Raised $163M For Startups in 2015, Up 56% Year-Over-Year</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/08/angellist-raised-163m-for-startups-in-2015-up-56-year-over-year/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AngelList, the online platform that had made itself indispensable to early-stage startups for fundraising and recruiting, said it closed out last year having raised $163 million online on behalf of 441 companies. That&#8217;s about 56 percent higher than the year before in 2014. About 40 percent of the deals were private rounds and institutional funds were in about 40 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nothing Like This Has Ever Happened Before</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/nothing-like-this-has-ever-happened-before/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Capitalists both in the Old World and the States, even now, have but little faith in California. They regard this country and everything relating to it as one grand bubble, liable to burst at any moment…. This is how it should be. The wealth of California is thereby passing into the hands of young, active, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Long Game</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/27/a-long-game/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“When do you think people in the Bay Area started to realize that you could make more money from tech than from real estate?” Jed Kolko asked me. We were sitting at Ma-velous, a coffee shop frequented by San Francisco’s political movers two blocks from City Hall and kitty corner from Twitter’s headquarters in the Shorenstein-owned former San Francisco Furniture Mart.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Workers With Equity</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/20/elder-care-startup-honor-makes-contractors-full-time-workers-with-equity/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 01:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Honor, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company focused on caring for seniors as Baby Boomers tip over into retirement, is making its contractor workforce into a full-time one. The care workers, called CarePros within the company, will have the potential for stock options. &#8220;I really don’t want two classes of people in our company. Everyone is in it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rwanda&#8217;s Not-So-Improbable Ambition To Be A Startup Hub of Africa</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/rwandas-not-so-improbable-ambition-to-be-a-startup-hub-of-africa/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an odd feeling to come from California, one of the world&#8217;s most prodigious economies where the infrastructure and public systems are simultaneously falling apart in plain view, and arrive in the tiny, landlocked East African country of Rwanda. The first thing you notice is how exceptionally clean the streets of Kigali appear. That&#8217;s because of a ban on non-biodegradable [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bucket, A Travel Planner That Automatically Creates Recommendation Lists, Expands Nationwide</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/16/like-bucket-a-travel-planner-that-automatically-creates-recommendation-lists-expands-nationwide/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Early Facebook employee and longtime travel aficionado Julia Lam began studying consumer travel habits over a year ago to see how people planned their vacations and business trips. What she found was that people were often using a mess of Chrome tabs and text files. So she started Bucket with former Facebook engineer John Sichi [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Last Bus Startup Standing: Chariot</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/29/the-last-bus-startup-standing-chariot/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the beginning, there were three. There was Leap Transit, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed bus startup stocked with Blue Bottle Coffee and furnished with plush stool seating for morning and evening commuters. Then there was the Nightschool&#8217;s nostalgic take with off-duty schoolbuses for late-night transport between the East Bay and San Francisco after the region&#8217;s commuter rail system BART shut down [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>TechCrunch Tokyo Startup Battlefield: SmartHR Takes The Top Prize</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/19/techcrunch-tokyo-startup-battlefield-smarthr-takes-the-top-prize/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2015 01:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every year, our Japanese-language sister site throws a big Disrupt-like event in Tokyo where there is, of course, a Battlefield between about 10 different startups. With north of 100 million Internet users, Japan has a considerable domestic market. While Western companies have had more success in Japan than in mainland China, the national startup scene still has tons [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Townsquared Raises $5.3M To Expand A Nextdoor-Like Experience For Local Retail, Small Businesses</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/18/townsquared-raises-5-3m-to-expand-a-nextdoor-like-experience-for-local-retail-small-businesses/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 23:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even though Rohit Prakash was a dual MD and PhD researching optogenetics at Stanford University, his entrepreneurial itch kept returning him to his family&#8217;s small business roots. He and his co-founder Nipul Patel began researching the travails of small business owners, interviewing countless entrepreneurs, trying to figure out what their risks were or what caused [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Regalii, A Startup In NYC&#8217;s Washington Heights, Uncovers Where Immigrants&#8217; Remittances Really Go</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/regalii/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 23:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a converted industrial warehouse in Brooklyn. Or a stately, century-old building in the Flatiron. But YC-backed Regalii&#8217;s atypical office location up in the Dominican-heavy Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan has given it plenty of insights into its working-class immigrant customer base. The startup, co-founded by several Latino founders who personally knew the hassles of sending money home, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>To Go After Local Neighborhood News And Marketplaces, Hoodline Raises $1.6M</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/17/hoodline/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities. Hoodline, a San Francisco-based startup, is trying to tackle this with a unique focus on news about neighborhood retail corridors. The startup has built up a network of news on about two-dozen neighborhoods across San Francisco as a sort of Trojan horse into a larger platform of hyperlocal listings and markets.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Airbnb Pledges Transparency, Education To Fight Commercial Hosting, But Provides Little Detail</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/11/airbnb-city-compact/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In response to calls for stronger action on hosts that aren&#8217;t casual users, Airbnb said it would start sharing some data with governments and getting hosts to agree to a policy of listing only their permanent homes. Here&#8217;s what Brian Chesky said in a post today: Today, we’re taking the next step to turn these principles into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cannabis Startup Meadow Unveils A Platform For Dispensaries To Manage Orders, Patient Intake</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/11/cannabis-startup-meadow-unveils-a-platform-for-dispensaries-to-manage-orders-patient-intake/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With California on a precipice of a ballot initiative next year that could legalize marijuana recreationally, scores of cannabis startups are vying to capture what is the nation&#8217;s largest market in advance of such a big regulatory change. Meadow, a Y Combinator-backed startup, was one of the earlier ones with an ordering and delivery service [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Robots To Eat All The Jobs? Hackers, Policy Wonks Collaborate On A Basic Income Createathon This Weekend</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/09/basic-income-createathon/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the face of rising U.S. income inequality and concerns about job loss to automation, some of Silicon Valley&#8217;s best-known names including Y Combinator&#8217;s Sam Altman have spoken up in favor of a universal basic income that would give people a baseline standard of living in an economy that may not be able to produce [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Many American Cities Are Preparing For The Arrival of Self-Driving Cars? Not Many.</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/09/cities-self-driving-cars/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Only about 6 percent of the country&#8217;s biggest cities are planning for or thinking about autonomous vehicles or self-driving cars in their long-range transportation plans, according to the National League of Cities. What&#8217;s even more surprising is that only 3 percent of these cities&#8217; transit plans are even taking into account the impact of ride-hailing companies like [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Oakland Startup, The History Project, Raises $2M To Build Digital Time Capsules of Family, Personal Histories</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/05/history-project/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim-Mai Cutler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After years of working in mobile advertising, founder Niles Lichtenstein discovered a box of records from his late father. That compelled him to start putting together memories and online histories earlier, by documenting his mother&#8217;s life history and how he first met his wife. That developed into an interactive timeline where he collected songs from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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