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theSkimm Raises $1.1 Million to Help Busy Professionals Find News

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Just more than a year ago, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg quit their comfortable jobs as news producers at NBC and settled into a new office: their apartment

The two roommates decided to take their journalism experience and use it to curate an easily digestible daily newsletter for busy professionals called theSkimm — a risky move, but a decision inspired by their friends

“We saw that our friends — primarily our girlfriends — would come to us and say they were too busy to find out what happened in the world today,” Zakin told Mashable in a recent interview. “We really served as information concierge for them.” Read more…

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