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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

Welcome to Social Media Week --the one week out of the year where we get to tweet and blog about social media! RSVP: [link] Thursday, February 4th 6PM Digital Culture NYC: Breaking Down the Walls, hosted by MoMA How are New York City’s cultural institutions using new and emerging technology to reach and engage audiences?

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. Long-time readers of this (11-year old!!)

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Are CSR and Sustainability the New Magnets for Top Talent?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Brand voice and business culture when it comes to recruitment and retaining people matter much more now than most businesses realize. The report also highlights a popular post-2010 trend: Candidates now look for incentives such as paid secondments to work for social projects and needy causes.

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What the Netflix TechBlog Says to 250,000 Pageviews Every Month

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I have neither worked at Netflix, nor written for the blog myself. That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog. 4.62% of those people end up going to the Jobs page?—?11,550

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The VC Industry Norms Which Changed Over The Past Decade

Haystack

At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically. What a difference a decade makes!

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. 2010: Every touchpoint matters. What would our culture look like? One of the great thought leaders on culture-powered businesses, Paul Spiegelman, nudged me to tell this story on a pretty big platform. Below is an excerpt from the original article.

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Why Seed Funds Have Scaled

Haystack

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013.