Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Think about venture capital. That seems very Brad to me.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

I have no doubt that any new school dedicated to engineering will be a good thing in New York City--one that I will fully support. Downtown Brooklyn is in close proximity to Dumbo, a burgeoning tech community, and downtown Manhattan's own innovation centers. Roosevelt Island or Downtown Brooklyn?

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New York City New York Engineer Community 131

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APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

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AUGUST 16, 2020

One of the core beliefs that I had when I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures was that most of the next 50-100 important companies to be built in New York City were going to be started by people not on most VC’s radars today. We’ll follow with events on Fintech, Climate, AI, and other sectors of innovator interest.

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Community Networking Founder New York City 62

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Prove has been overshadowed by Salt Lake City, its northern neighbor, mostly because it’s the state’s capital, it has its team in the NBA, a bigger population, and probably more attractions. But entrepreneurs know that a city needs more than that to make a business thrive, and that’s where Provo shines the most.

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Denver Entrepreneur San Francisco Colorado 246

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

Meanwhile, Philly quietly chugs away drawing entrepreneurs and venture capital (VC) dollars. The average office space in the city rents for $28 per square foot. Compare that figure to New York City ($75-$84), Seattle ($40+), or Los Angeles ($39), and it’s clear why startups benefit from locating here.

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Philadelphia San Francisco Los Angeles New York City 81

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

When I was in college, at Fordham''s scenic Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, I deeply rooted into my community. Being intensely involved in community life there made the campus seem small and familiar. After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City.

Community 116

Community New York New York City Hosting 116

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JUNE 17, 2010

It's because, as a community, we've been outflanked. You see, financial recruiting in New York City is machine--a machine that creates a lot of noise and whose gears start churning as early as sophomore year of college. If you don’t enlighten these The problem is that the community is too fragmented.

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Technical Review San Francisco New York City Ruby 116

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular. And yes, I’ve heard of the NYCEDC’s initiative to develop a new engineering and applied sciences campus.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

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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New York City Kansas Advertising Cash Position 158

Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. The Valley has been a unique place for over half a century.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Tucson Seattle 107

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it. By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. Share your sewing machine at Zilok or trade it for an iPod at Swap.com.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Next Wednesday night, I'm hosting a roundtable discussion between Brooklyn innovation community stakeholders on how to make this side of the river a better place to create, build businesses and grow. What community structures are needed to help improve the ecosystem? At the time, though, we didn't know what we know now.

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Community New York City Incubator New York 101

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APRIL 11, 2010

I’m getting a little bit tired of running my events list and seeing some of the best folks sitting behind the paywalls of people profiting off of the community’s attempt to talk to itself. produced by community members that there’s hardly any reason to pay other than a token amount for in person innovation and startup related content.

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Community New York City Venture Capital New York 68

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. Travel to the fabulous New York City to witness the reveal of an all new slate of outstanding startups, influential speakers, guests and more!

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Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

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JUNE 8, 2014

Not only does it give people a sense of familiarity and comfort in a constantly changing city, but it serves as an important reminder of Brooklyn''s history as an industrial community--a place where things got made. Makerbot has a factory in Industry City. Sign this petition sponsored by City Councilperson Brad Lander.

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San Francisco New York City Venture Capital New York 119

David Teten

MAY 13, 2012

I hope you’ll join us at: The Power of “Social,” Venture Capital & Financial Engineering: How Tech Startups Are Challenging The Titans of Finance . Co-sponsored by Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance – New York, the Founders’ Circle, and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

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Technology New York City New York Cofounder 128

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 17, 2011

People use the term "communities" a lot, and in many ways, overuse it--describing groups that don't feature any of the key attributes of a real community. Various descriptions of community include: "shares some common values". It's not a community--it's an audience, and a big one. sense of connectedness". shared trust.

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Audience Community New York City New York 102

David Teten

APRIL 28, 2016

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), ff Venture Capital , the HBS Alumni Angels of New York , and Alpha Venture Partners , are co-sponsoring their 6th New York City Demo Day, next Tuesday, May 3, 2016, from 10 to 12 AM. Community On Call.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

It is suggested that companies cannot find the cash necessary to start new and exciting ventures. Furthermore during this economic downturn, we’ve heard a crescendo of voices lamenting the lack of startup funding, as communities finally recognize that new companies are the key source of job creation in this country.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

Signing up for local meet-ups and newsletters like Gary’s Guide in NYC as well as attending hackathons are also great ways to find accelerator programs and get plugged into the startup community. In a few weeks, there will be an opportunity to pitch our company to angel investors and venture capital firms.

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Incubator New York City Venture Capital Startup 105

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The great thing, if you can find them, is that the excitement around early stage investments in New York City is carrying over to a lot of investor interest--and the story of being actively involved as a hands-on investor is one that the market appreciates. Another GA community member introduced me to the team at KEC holdings.

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LP New York City New York Chad 112

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AUGUST 22, 2010

In the past, I've heard lots of arguments about how New York City needs its own [insert something national]. "We I didn't mind that Techcrunch did Disrupt here--I thought it was great for New York. You see, New York is the most infinitely complicated city in the world. We need our own SXSW!".

New York City 92

New York City New York Venture Capital Cofounder 92

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JANUARY 17, 2012

I am ecstatic to announce the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --my new seed investment fund. It is the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn--the city’s most exciting and creative borough. It is home to cool startups like Etsy, Makerbot, Pontiflex, HowAboutWe, Energyhub, and Loosecubes.

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New York City New York Venture Capital Term Sheet 120

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. —– Indie.vc

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

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. NYC needs him not only to wave the flag a bit on the ideas here that could go big, but also to share the steps needed to get here with the local community. VCs seem to listen.

New York City 111

New York City New York Cofounder Venture Capital 111

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

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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New York City New York Incubator Bootstrapping 100

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Fifty years ago this year, the New York City Board of Estimate voted down Robert Moses ' plan to build a ten-lane elevated highway across lower Manhattan--leveling fourteen blocks along Broome Street in Little Italy and what is now SoHo, as well as the West Village.

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New York City New York Italy Washington 109

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APRIL 15, 2011

Let's be clear, New York City is a big, tough place. These companies have all the momentum they could ever hope to achieve and the investor community is abuzz over how impressive they all were. and I like to think that the NYC community is better for things having wound up the way they did. So congrats, guys.

New York City 112

New York City New York Incubator Community 112

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MAY 23, 2010

So the New York City government has decided it needs a little social media savvy—you now, since that newfangled Twitter thing came out, they feel like they need to be jumping on board with technology as an early adopter. The position will: “help develop forward-thinking policies on social media, digital communications, web 2.0

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Social Media Government New York City Media 94

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JANUARY 31, 2010

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. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. What works and what doesn't. RSVP: [link].

New York 61

New York Community Social Media New York City 61

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MAY 2, 2010

It became more than just a home to me, but a home to the community in a way that no other place was. There’s a vibe in that lobby that reflects the energy going on in the NYC tech community right now. What’s really important for me now is to import that same kind of vibe into First Round’s new New York City office in Union Square.

New York 79

New York New York City Venture Capital Incubator 79

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JANUARY 5, 2015

When I took the job, the New York startup ecosystem was nascent. You could literally get to know everyone in the local tech community at the time. Now, the community is orders of magnitude larger and the number of investors who invest here has grown significantly. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Albuquerque New York City New York Venture Capital 60

David Teten

JULY 19, 2013

Think of Cathy Black , a very successful corporate executive who lasted just 3 months as Schools Chancellor of New York City. Lastly, if you’re moving to a new city, I recommend sign up for the mailing lists for the industry in which you work. Superstars fail too. You don’t want to be one of those people.

New York City 114

New York City New York Leadership Venture Capital 114

David Teten

JULY 19, 2013

Think of Cathy Black , a very successful corporate executive who lasted just 3 months as Schools Chancellor of New York City. Lastly, if you’re moving to a new city, I recommend sign up for the mailing lists for the industry in which you work. Superstars fail too. You don’t want to be one of those people.

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New York City New York Leadership Venture Capital 114