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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” It had been written that NYC was built by industries of zero sum games like finance and real estate, and that DNA wouldn’t work in the startup community.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

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Why the NYC startup scene needs Sean Parker

This is going to be BIG.

What I do care about is that a person who is long on vision and has a knack for being around big companies early on is now living in New York City. So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! or would he have been convinced to take a financing round?

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Former Finance Guru Has Business Ownership in His Blood

Hearpreneur

I am from a small town in Upstate New York. After graduating HS with honors, I went to a private college in Ithaca, NY and majored in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, Marketing and International Operations. Tell us your background and why did you start your business?

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When DIY Is A Terrible Idea

YoungUpstarts

million in 1955 to over 9 million words in 2005. New York has a standard exemption on clothing items priced below $110 per item, while items over $110 are taxed. Advice For The Young At Heart business finance financial management Jonathan Barsade taxation taxes' You’ll Lose Out on Tax Holidays.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old. By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.”. billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals.