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The real entrepreneurs of New York City

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant: Interesting idea that would only work in a limited number of cities. Risk that hosts wouldn't let group of strangers into their apartment was never tested. Email thread in presentation demonstrates potential market. Great use of airbnb for their source of customer development won them 'Best #CustDev Award."

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Amazon “Swipes Left” On New York City

Haystack

Today, Amazon announced it will entirely abandon its plans to build its second headquarters (a/k/a “HQ2”) in Long Island City, a residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. I believe this will be talked about for months, which in today’s news cycle is saying something.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

government boasts more than 200,000 public datasets hosted through data.gov, divided among numerous lists and segmented into categories such as: Information on 173 million taxi rides in New York City. Aside from security, working with massive datasets means spending a significant amount of money on hosting and bandwidth.

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Top 3 Cities To Be Based In As A Tech Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

It is cities with a lot of options and frameworks that makes it easy for tech entrepreneurs to operate their business. 3 New York City, New York, United States. New York City was the city to be based in, when the first rise of technology arrived in the last century.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter.

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Enterprise Collaboration Wars

BeyondVC

My personal opinion on the matter as quoted in Dom’s article: Ed Sim, venture capital investor and founding partner at New York City-based boldstart ventures , questions the Microsoft adoption numbers. And at some point they may have to look at hosting on-premises if they’re ever going to get there.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

Designed as a work space for writers, Paragraph takes up a 2,500-square-foot loft space in New York City. When co-workers need even more room to breathe, they can head up to the rooftop deck and check out the city. Plus, after work, Icehouse frequently hosts social and cultural events. Caroline Collective.