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Remote Work, Not Taxes, Threatens Cities: Why That Threat has Peaked but Others Remain

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If everything you know and love about New York City is shut down and you can work remotely, why stay? Thanks to the pace of vaccinations, New York City is opening up again. That’s why some oppose increasing taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers—citing price elasticity theories. Forget about just not increasing taxes.

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Startup Visa update

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He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana. You can judge for yourself if we lived up to that promise: Lean Startup SmackDown from Frank Gruber on Vimeo. Expo SF (May.

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The bar is higher

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You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. That's right--Indiana. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators.

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

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44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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WORK AT A STARTUP - Out of college I was selected as part of an Entrepreneurial Fellowship in Indiana where promising graduates were placed at some of the fastest growing startups. Looking forward to writing it. davetomback Awesome Brennan Knotts With Pocket Tales I did almost all of this.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

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Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. If they can’t figure it out in Minneapolis, I’m not quite sure how they’re ever going to figure it out in New York. Unlike being the Mayor of, let’s say, South Bend Indiana, it’s not exactly the kind of thing you can learn on the job.

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Join a conference simulcast near you

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One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.