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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. Look, New York City isn’t for everyone.

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Boston Startup School Graduates To Institute With New York Expansion

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Taught by volunteers from the local tech community, Startup Institute has four tracks for students looking for the necessary acumen to work at a startup – web development, product and design, marketing and sales/business development. The Startup Institute started as a branch of startup incubator TechStars in Boston.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN

Austin Startup

Schwartzfarb set out to create a guide for anyone interested in starting, growing or leading a modern startup so that they can hit the ground running with a solid plan and foundation with agile and effective sales teams, so that they can avoid and manage the hazards all startups face. New York City, NY Sept. Austin, TX?—?

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SXSW Startups: Novo

Austin Startup

A finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, which will pitch at 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Novo is a banking platform that provides better business deposit accounts to today’s companies and is powered by a network of FDIC-insured community banks. Novo is based in New York City.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

We’ve just put a new batch of tickets on sale, and when this one sells out, the price goes up, so sign up now. Steven Hodas will be speaking at the conference about applying Lean Startup methods within extreme bureaucracy—in his case, the New York City Department of Education. government’s first public website.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34) 34:28) The mortgage industry finally goes digital. (37:22)

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How to Impress Angel Investors and Make It into “Startup Heaven”

Up and Running

Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. Dan Nainan, Angel from New York City, NY | Website | Twitter. An angel investor is a high net worth individual who invests their own money into startup companies in the hopes of gaining a return on their money. Tweet This Tip.