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Introducing Circulate: Creating Better Networks for Future Founders from Black and Other Underrepresented Communities

This is going to be BIG.

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. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures will support these professionals with our event and community-building experience.

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How to Run a Tech Conference in NYC

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The biggest thing that conference organizers don’t seem to understand is the following: New York City is not one tech community. New York is a multi-industry town. We have media startups, healthcare startups, real estate tech startups, fintech startups—every kind of startup you can imagine.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

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.” Key elements: . “We

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Transcript of Why Continuous Learning Matters for Today’s Professionals

Duct Tape Marketing

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, tech, you name it. So they’re in-person, but it still kind of had that community feel that we still have online today. So it is an increasingly global community. Are learning communities going to replace or at least be the new school?

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Who can build the marketing machine?

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People have gotten so specialized, that we have people doing nothing but community management, SEO/SEM, PR, etc. In New York City, that just shouldn't happen. This basically makes them completely unusable as the first marketing employee of a startup--which would be a terrific job for an up and coming marketer.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Hunie: community for designers to help them get feedback from their peers. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Everbill: invoice and estimate service. femeninas: fashion and beauty portal for women. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

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. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. Details here.

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