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The real entrepreneurs of New York City

Startup Lessons Learned

While I was in New York, I had another opportunity to witness this firsthand, and I wanted to share the results with you. But there is something serious at work, too. I have written previously about how powerful the these events are as a teaching tool for Lean Startup principles. Take a look.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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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. It is shocking, really.

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Tax Credits for Startups in New York State

David Teten

Our CFO Alex Katz just sent out a memo to our portfolio, attached below, about 2 tax credits available to companies that do business in New York State. Enter Alex: I am writing to tell you about two tax credits available to companies that do business in New York State. New York Jobs Tax Credit.

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New York Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Next week, I travel to New York, where I'm especially excited to see the entrepreneurial renaissance that is in progress, first hand. I am declaring next week to be officially Lean Startup Week in New York City. Special thanks to Trevor Owens for helping to organize my New York trip.).

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. When launching Listly in 2011, co-founder Shyam Subramanyan says that “listly.com” wasn’t available, but they were okay with choosing an alternative. Opting for the often used “.ly” is trying to do.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Given that it’s a new decade, I thought I’d do a lookback and compare the list today to the one 10-years ago to try to tease out the changes that have transpired in the VC industry over this time. To a lesser degree, markets like New York are demonstrating more promise in recent years and I expect that to continue.