Local social network Nextdoor hits $1.1 billion valuation

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Mashable / Todd Wasserman / Mar 4, 2015

This is the sort of business local media companies — newspapers and broadcasters — should have made earlier and better moves in. —JB

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Benton, Joshua. "Local social network Nextdoor hits $1.1 billion valuation." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Mar. 2015. Web. 29 Mar. 2025.

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