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One for the times

January 3, 2018 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Well, this one was certainly timely. Startup is a tech story set in New York, not Silicon Valley. All the main characters work for two companies in the same building–one, the titular startup and the other a TechCrunch-style news source. The characters feel a little stock, frankly. There’s the tech bro, the jaded reporter, the dogged reporter, the put-upon wife, the pretty girl. As tech bro starts to secure another round of fund for his (honestly, useless) app, a story starts to break that he […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: contemporary, Doree Shafrir, tech

lowercasesee's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: contemporary, Doree Shafrir, tech ·
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