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This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. Did you know that our venture capital structure — the structure we use to invest in startups — was originally developed for 19th-century whaling expeditions, with very little innovation since?

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere. 

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

We set up a bunch of global surveillance systems like one called PREDICT that was supposed to find these diseases early on. So President Obama set up that office after I departed, put someone named Beth Cameron in charge of that office, a real global health expert. We created a pandemic response playbook that we wrote in 2015, in 2016.