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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. 3) Open source your real estate.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

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Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. She has written about culture for Momentum Magazine, business for Resource World Magazine, and a mess of assorted topics for The Huffington Post. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP.

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Findings is GitHub for Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

He explains how technology can turn random snippets into inspiration: "I keep all these quotes in a database using a program called DEVONthink, where I also store my own writing: chapters, essays, blog posts, notes. Github and other open source depositories, took what was otherwise a relatively solitary experience--coding--and opened it up.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, —– Versatile Venture Capital is a new venture capital fund specializing in companies targeting early profitability, based in New York City.

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

mashable.com

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been trying very hard to raise New York City’s profile in the tech scene. The city appointed its first chief digital officer , Rachel Sterne, in January. That same month, prestigious startup accelerator TechStars announced its first New York City class.