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Two Days of Entrepreneurial Community Building In Upstate New York

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On Wednesday and Thursday I spent two awesome days with my long time friend Martin Babinec (the founder of Trinet), his partner at Upstate Venture Connect – Nasir Ali – and about 1000 members of the Upstate New York entrepreneurial community. Young Entrepreneurs Organization, and the MIT Enterprise Forum.

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Techstars in Kansas City

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Yesterday Techstars announced the launch of Techstars Kansas City. This is a city-based horizontal accelerator similar to the ones we have in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, Austin, New York City, London and Berlin. I have a long history with Kansas City.

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How To Predict The Future

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In it, I examine how the hobbyist community is now building inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicle auto-pilot hardware and software. Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.) Had one plotted the trend over time, soon cities like New York were going to be buried under horse manure.

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TechStars New York

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TechStars is coming to New York City. When we went about setting up the NY program, we evolved our funding model to be as inclusive of the local VC / angel community as we could. The first program runs from 1/10/11 to 4/8/11. Applications are open now.

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Bringing Depression Out of The Shadows In Startups

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I was in New York City after a red-eye from San Francisco, landing at 6 a.m. In this case, I was teaching a lot, mostly around “Startup Communities”. The last three months of 2001 were awful for me after an 18-month stretch from the peak of the Internet bubble — spring 2000 through Sept. At one level, I was exhausted.