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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Nice going NYC government PR machine. Either way the "one stop shop" model went out with portals in 1998. Two of the recent Ultra Light Startup events--one about PR and the other about legal help--had copycat programs run by the city itself. A month later they hired their first worker, and. Hey everyone! Come look at us!

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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