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What do your VCs care about and does it matter?

This is going to be BIG.

My family is based in New York. That all being said, new VC markets are emerging—and during the pandemic, lots of New Yorkers and folks from the Valley decamped to Miami or Austin. Someone asked me yesterday whether or not I would ever consider living anywhere else. Being here for my family was priority one.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even 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. That's right--Indiana.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

My next chapter was with McKinsey in New York. Dr. Oksana Malysheva was born and raised in Soviet Union, Ukraine. It combined the thrill of problem solving for some of top global companies with the even bigger thrill of always being part of a high performing team that tackled those problems shoulder to shoulder.

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International tour about to begin

Startup Lessons Learned

Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. September 15, 2009 7:24 AM Mikesaid.

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Wealth and Ownership Amid A Shifting Global Financial Order

Duct Tape Marketing

She is a “recovering” investment banker; entrepreneur; speaker; economic, business, and financial commentator; content developer; and a New York Times bestselling author. And we're gonna talk about her latest book, which is also a New York Times bestseller called You Will Own Nothing: Your War With a New Financial World Order.

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Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live

Startup Lessons Learned

The updated list of locations is below: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Athens, Greece: [link] Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: (..)

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

For some of my thoughts on Lean Startup Machine, see A month is fifteen weekends and The real entrepreneurs of New York City. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development.