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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. sucks up all the good programmers.

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Get the Most Startup Funding Using Your Home Equity

The Startup Magazine

Bootstrapping your startup often means you scrape together your cash, and often tapping your home equity value. For any Residential real estate appraisal , any given house is not as simple as might seem to be at a glance, particularly in diverse markets such as New York City. Neighborhood.

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8 Challenges To Overcome In The Growth Of Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

Change, acceptance, and trust become more difficult as you get deeper into the fabric of a community. Expanding neighborhood-by-neighborhood or city-by-city is not a simple cookie-cutter process. Hyperlocal in New York City is different from hyperlocal in Kansas.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Tyler Tringas, General Partner, observes, “Almost all of these new [RBI] forms of financing really only work for more mature companies (say $25-50k MRR and up) and there are still very few new options at the stage where we are investing.” Bigfoot Capital.

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Lessons for Brooklyn: Information Spillover at the Roots of NYC Tech

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With all of this news about Brooklyn 's tech scene , I've been thinking a lot about what made the NYC innovation community grow so quickly. The "meetup" culture of NYC, where there are three great educational events to go to every night is how the community bootstrapped itself.

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Open to All: Scholarships for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

But travel, particularly for early-stage and bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are physically far away, can be hard to swing. We’re interested not only in bringing folks to San Francisco, but also in helping Lean Startup communities take root beyond Silicon Valley.

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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

We'll bring together Social Media Editors from some of the largest and most well-respected media outlets, as well as those in more traditional Editorial roles to discuss this new specialty role. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. An overview of interactive design patterns for online social interaction.