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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

That would be our last time indoors in a New York City restaurant. Within a month, over 10,000 New York City residents would be dead, representing nearly half of all of the deaths in the country at the time. The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. we have a problem.”

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10 Ways close the Coronavirus budget gap in New York

This is going to be BIG.

4) We need to push the Federal Government to close the carried-interest tax loophole —but we should do it in such a way where the localities where it gets collected get a share of the income from it. If New York politicians push for it, perhaps we could see some of the benefit disproportionally accrue back to us.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Scalable startups tend to group together in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Boston, Israel, etc.) When I read policy papers by government organizations trying to replicate the lessons from the valley, I’m struck how they seem to miss some basic lessons. but then the government got out of the way.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

We spend way too much time, particularly in and around the New York area, teaching fundraising versus company or product building. They didn’t wait for a curriculum change or some government grant money to come through (although they just got Kaufmann money for it). No revenues, no costs. ” It’s true.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations.