Awesome things on the horizon
Hi there, I hope you're enjoying 'flow' like we are at the moment. We're working hard on a couple of things such as enabling community curation on Startup Deals. Speaking of which, we could use some help with that, if you can spare a couple of minutes. Please recommend the tools/deals you like most on Startup Deals. You can do that with an account, and if you'd like a free upgrade to a paid account in return, let me know through a reply?
We have also partnered with the TNW Conference again, and we will be there with 4 photo booths 📸 If you're going (to literally the best conference in Europe), and would like to meetup, don't hesitate to hit reply and let me know. We'll schedule a time at a booth to get together or even throw a meetup!
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Thank you
For finishing issue #119 & credits
Special thanks go out to Simone for editing and Esther and Timan from NEXT Amsterdam, and Raymond from Vita.io for curating!
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