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Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

On the VC panel at the Lost Remote Show, Chris Fralic, partner at First Round Capital, praised Twitter's approach to building a standalone music app that ties to external services like Spotify.

In 2005, Alex Andronikov quit his job on Wall Street. He moved to San Francisco and crashed on a friend's couch with little more than a startup idea.

Presented by NASA, the International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day hackathon where teams of technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, software developers, and students will compete and collaborate across the world, utilizing publicly available data to design innovative solutions for global challenges in software ... (more)

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