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Digital.NYC: The First Ecosystem Hub

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In the first 36 hours, mentions of the hub were viewed more than 42 million times on social media, and over 100,000 pages on the site were perused. This timely information is complemented by searchable, user-managed profiles of every startup, investor, incubator, and accelerator in NYC. praised the hub and its place in the community.

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

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Here are seven ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. These days, new technologies and social trends are fanned from an ember into a flame by the media and word-of-mouth. With most others, like web services, incubation time must be short, and secrecy can be the kiss of death.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team.