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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

Nice going NYC government PR machine. Two of the recent Ultra Light Startup events--one about PR and the other about legal help--had copycat programs run by the city itself. Why not just pay Graham Lawler directly do to this and spend the city's PR capital on supporting Ultra Light, versus going head to head with him?