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Inaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab

David Teten

On Friday morning, I witnessed another volley of shots being fired from New York City at Palo Alto during FinTech Innovation Lab ‘s Inaugural Investor Day. The Lab is a collaboration between the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, with support from the New York banking community.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

645 Ventures , a New York City based VC firm, is one of the pioneers of a data-driven investment model to the seed stage. While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. Formerly MS IT department. 15 yrs at MS.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.”

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Social Media. Social Media. Contact Contact Us Submit News Submit a Bug. Contact Contact Us Submit News Submit a Bug. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit Career Expos. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Entertainment. Whats This?

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