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StartupRealities No 161 CityBrander is a branding and PR company which helps global cities rebrand and reinvent themselves, primarily by expanding the reach of the city to include interesting and important sites in their vicinity. For example, CityBrander defines London as the triangle between Oxford, Cambridge and Brighton. This notional expansion increases the impact of the city on the world stage, while also promoting the development of transport infrastructure to better connect the expanded areas (as a secondary effect). CEO QUOTE " Hemingway says that everything far from the sea is province. I say that everything not included in a global city logically falls outside the global city and has therefore missed the boat. Sometimes people can get very agitated about their local sense of belonging. However, the world does not care about the minutiae of local senitmentalities. " - said CityBrander founder and CEO Cindy Brangelina . City of London (image source: Wikipedi...

StartupRealities No 86 WikipediaEntry is a media and PR company that creates by request Wikipedia articles on people, companies or products. The company does not guarantee to its customers that any newly written Wikipedia article will not be deleted. However, using the company's services increases the chance that the article will meet the notability threshold required by Wikipedia. CEO QUOTE "We are not magicians. We simply know how to write well and reference thoroughly an article on a subject of certain notability. Beyond that it is up to the (volunteer) Wikipedia editors if the article will survive the two major hurdles: 'immediate deletion' and 'proposed for deletion'. We normally would not take on a project if we expect it to result in immediate deletion. Yet, sometimes grey areas do exist in this space and we can help turn the grey closer to white" said WikipediaEntry founder and CEO Wiktor Entchev. Wikipedia logo (image source: Wikipedia )...