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GIFTLAB is the world’s premier destination for luxury online gifting.

TaxiTreats is the high-tech vending machine inside your taxi.

Catchafire matches professionals who want to give their skills with nonprofits and social enterprises that need their help.

3rd Ward is a place to learn and make things.

Willa natural skin care for girls.

Edison Junior invents new ideas in large markets.

Scoot: Speedy, fun, electric scooters you can ride anywhere in the city.

Windowfarms: A vertical, hydroponic garden for growing food in your windows.

Venuebook: Discover and book your ideal venue.

Cacao Prieto makes delicious chocolate and bonbons and distills rums and liqueurs from 100% Dominican cocoa beans in Brooklyn, NY.

DailyWorth is a community of women who talk money. We deliver practical tips, empowering ideas, and the occasional kick in the pants… daily to your inbox.

EDITD connects fashion, luxury and apparel people with data they need so they can make better decisions.

Little Borrowed Dress offers stylish bridesmaid dresses for rent at a fraction of the retail price.

theSweeten matches your project with the right Architects, Interior Designers & Contractors, selected from our invite-only network.

NG Advantage delivers CNG to energy intensive enterprises not connected to a gas pipeline.

Engagio tracks your online conversations and lets you develop meaningful relationships from them.

Food52: The place where kitchens meet.

New York Mouth is an online retailer that sells small independent packaged food makers' products.

Rick's Picks makes fourteen varieties of hand-packed all natural pickles, made in season with produce from local farmers.

How Good rates the “Goodness” of food.

Kitchensurfing is building a community marketplace for chefs and kitchens. Give everyone access to delicious food at home.

Join Edition01 to get exclusive access to limited edition collections from the world's best luxury fashion designers.

LittleBits is an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping and play.

Lover.ly helps you discover and save wedding ideas in one, easy place.

Nestio is the easiest way to organize your apartment hunt.

The Curbed Network is Eater, Racked, and Curbed.

Red Stamp lets you email, text, tweet, facebook, and paper mail personalized photo cards, notes, invitations + announcements right from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

The Talk Market is revolutionizing online shopping with video.

Have to Have is a single destination to store and share everything you want online.

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books of the moment

Peggy Riley: Amity & Sorrow: A Novel
A mother drives for days with her daughters and ends up in a random Oklahoma town after crashing the car. They come from a polygamous community where there were 50 wives. The mother had grown up knowing life outside that community. Over time, after leaving, she almost becomes deprogrammed. The realization of what she did to her daughters who no nothing outside the world they came from including how to read. Then there is the family that brought them in. It is a fascinating story. Well written. Worthy read.
Charles Graeber: The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
An amazing true story of a male nurse who was arrested in 2002. I actually remember the story as I followed it in the papers. This nurse was a serial killer who had probably murdered over 400 patients that were under his care. A seriously well researched book. Great read.
Meg Wolitzer: The Interestings: A Novel
Wolitzer writes about a group of camp friends who all come from different walks of life (some on scholarship) as their friendships continue through their mid-50s. At the beginning the story seems trite but as you continue to read there is a lot of be said. The story is sticking with me. She makes the case that everything that happens to you from your childhood makes an impact on who you become or don't become. Worthy read.
Elizabeth Strout: The Burgess Boys: A Novel
Strouts last book won a Pulitzer. She focuses on family issues. I enjoyed this book much more than Olive Ketteredge which I found utterly depressing. This book follows two brothers and a sister who live in the shadow of their fathers accidental death. Like most siblings, all have turned out very different yet they are connected. I did not love any of the characters, like her last book, yet as The Burgess Boys moves forward and memories are revealed, it is an interesting perspective on human character.
Tamara Shopsin: Mumbai New York Scranton: A Memoir
Great book. A witty spare inventive personal diary of Tamara journey from Indian to New York to Scranton. Really really enjoyed the book.
Michael Lavigne: The Wanting: A Novel
An incredible book that tells the human side of the many layered issues in the Middle East. From immigrating to Israel from Moscow, to being a victim of a suicide bomber yet surviving, to being pulled into an Israeli radical group. Each character is connected. Very layered well written book. Powerful
Alessandro Piol: Tech and the City: The Making of New York's Startup Community
A history of the Internet that I lived through. Great job of recording what happened.
Amity Gaige: Schroder: A Novel
Not sure how much I loved this book. A father loses his child in divorce and decides to kidnap his own daughter. He is not a stable person but he obviously loves his daughter. His own childhood has made him a disconnected human being. An interesting journey but not sure I'd recommend.
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Classic.
Janice Steinberg: The Tin Horse: A Novel
a good novel that not only tells the tale of another dysfunctional jewish family in the early 30's but interweaves pieces of los angeles history throughout the book.

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