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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. There are user groups, gaming meetups, meetups in security or agile development—lots of places entrepreneurs rarely tread. Look, New York City isn’t for everyone.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

And that was in New York City. That’s the world you’re graduating into – immersed in social media, with infinite facts and continuous news. When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. The rest of the world had much, much less.

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What Skills Every New Internet Entrepreneur Needs

ReadWriteStart

I had lunch with one of my favorite Internet entrepreneurs today, Mark Sawyier , the CEO of Off Campus Media. Sawyier went to New York City to get investment capital and is most likely to go there for additional rounds. Don't be afraid to make your biz plan a living, breathing entity.

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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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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) But you can't beat yourself up because you didn't have a good email address as before you started, or you didn't have their social media counts. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34) Go get them.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

Media Training. New York City. During this talk, well discuss the most effective techniques from Customer Discovery, Product Discovery, Lean Startups, Lean UX, Agile Development and Design Thinking to create real value for our customers. Female Founders. Female Founders to Watch. Founder Friday. In Conversation.