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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. Risk that hosts wouldn't let group of strangers into their apartment was never tested. But there is something serious at work, too. Brant: Interesting idea that would only work in a limited number of cities.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Rinse and repeat for 10 days and I keep reminding myself that I’ve got this to do list of new deals the stack rank and there was that company I had seen and liked a couple of weeks ago. New York, Chicago, Boston, etc. You’re the host so you lead the table discussion, seat placement and follow ups. You’re in control.

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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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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

government boasts more than 200,000 public datasets hosted through data.gov, divided among numerous lists and segmented into categories such as: Information on 173 million taxi rides in New York City. Aside from security, working with massive datasets means spending a significant amount of money on hosting and bandwidth.

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The Top 7 Marketing Lessons We Can Learn From Nature

Duct Tape Marketing

About the show: The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Jeremy King is CEO and founder of Attest, a fast-scaling, SaaS technology business based in London and New York. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Funding Computer Science Education In NY

Feld Thoughts

If this is interesting to you, they are hosting an event at USV on Monday, November 18, 2013 for 6pm to 8pm for those who can consider making investments of $5,000 and above due to space constraints. Philanthropy computer science new york non-profit'

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"The Startup Way" is Headed to London

Startup Lessons Learned

Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals , Give and Take , and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg Since The Startup Way came out on October 17th, I’ve had a great time traveling with the book, speaking to audiences, and meeting amazing people creating change in all types of organizations.