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Introducing the Hitchhiker’s Guide to New York City Tech

View from Seed

New York City is a dream but can also be a navigational nightmare, equal parts crammed circus and rat race mixed at warp speed. This holds for the city’s tech sector. In order to provide more transparent access and information, today we’re excited to launch the Hitchhiker’s Guide to New York City Tech.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Wikipedia was a tremendous invention in the process of knowledge curation, and it was dependent, in turn, on the invention of wikis. If one had the idea of an crowd curated online knowledge system, you could apply the litmus test of internet connection rate to assess when there would be a viable number of contributors and users. .

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Succeeding in Venture Capital as an Introvert

Hunter Walker

I can’t say that Covid-19 has made me rethink the personal utility of the really big conferences (I don’t attend many), but it does make me miss the curation of smaller groups. Going forward, I think virtual events will continue to evolve beyond the Zoom room and into formats like Icebreaker.

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How to Run a Tech Conference in NYC

This is going to be BIG.

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. It’s very possible and I’ve been to some good ones—and the best ones all have some common attributes. Mix up the formats.

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20 must-attend tech conferences for female entrepreneurs in 2014

The Next Web

PSFK presents a ‘curated collection of creative thinkers will present new ideas in design, innovation and storytelling to an audience of peers’ in New York City on April 11. I’m very excited about Dent because it’s a small, curated group of people and there is a strong emphasis on relationship-building.

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V1’s latest investment: Headout, a last minute marketplace for tours, activities and experiences

Version One Ventures

Headout focuses on activities that are ready to be booked within the next 24 hours, curating the inventory of tour operators, activity providers, guides and other in-destination service providers. If you find yourself in these cities soon, make sure to download the app on iOS or Android and try a new experience! In this $1.8M

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What monks, chefs, lugers, singers, graffiti artists and actors all have in common

VC Adventure

And SideTour heavily curates the experiences hosted on its site to ensure that they are both unique and that the hosts have true expertise. The variety of experience on SideTour really show the effect of this curation (and you thought I was kidding about luging and monks). The company announced today a $1.5M