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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">tech startup open gov raises 25M</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;Civic tech startup open gov raises 25M, adds <a href="/view/person?id=292" target="_blank">Marc Andreesen</a> to board</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://recode.net/2015/10/15/civic-tech-startup-opengov-raises-25-million-adds-marc-andreessen-to-its-board/" target="_blank">http://recode.net/2015/10/15/civic-tech-startup-opengov-raises-25-million-adds-marc-andreessen-to-its-board/</a>&nbsp; SRC= hn, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394593" target="_blank">comments</a>(17)</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 2015-10-15</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE auto summary by smmry.com]</h2> <ol> <li>] For a number of startups, government transparency isn't just a political talking point - it's a lucrative business opportunity.</li> <li>] Their public-interest pitch is that the antiquated technology governments use to collect and store information makes it difficult for them to manage their own budgets and adequately plan for the future.</li> <li>] The business angle is that governments are great, long-lasting customers, and there's a lot of money to be made by helping them organize their data.</li> <li>] Marc Andreessen agrees with both arguments, but the latter one is probably why he's joining the board of OpenGov, a data-focused civic tech startup that makes a cloud-based software toolkit to help public servants sort out their data.</li> <li>] In a phone interview, Andreessen started with the civic interest case for why governments should be using the services of companies like OpenGov or Socrata.</li> <li>&nbsp;"In most cities and places, this stuff doesn't exist or it's inaccessible. It's transparency for people who run government, and for citizens whose tax dollars are being spent," Andreessen said.</li> <li>&nbsp;] "Government doesn't have competition. They're not going to go out of business because they have a monopoly, unless you show transparency and give people comparisons."</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>