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This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

10AM through the weekend Crisis Camp Haiti NYC-New York technologists helping the Haiti relief effort. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link]. Saturday, January 30th. In addition, people with specialized skills such as translation, computer programing and literacy advocates are encouraged to participate.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. Did you know that our venture capital structure — the structure we use to invest in startups — was originally developed for 19th-century whaling expeditions, with very little innovation since?

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Looking to the use cases of big data

The Equity Kicker

Tracking disease epidemics – GigaOM tracks the story of how Twitter tracked a recent outbreak of cholera in Haiti and how that can be of use to aid agencies. Ultimately I see this as a subset of the 3. Virtual assistants. There are numerous examples now of social media being used to good effect in crisis situations which is great.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere. 

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

If you go back to what he did in Puerto Rico after the hurricane, if you go back to what he did in Haiti and other places, what he did is exactly what you're saying, which is he found ways to feed people so effectively, so efficiently that they are now the standards that the government increasingly uses when it responds to a humanitarian crisis.