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How the New York City innovation community can still lose (and what you can do about it)

This is going to be BIG.

As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years. I'm all for people putting $25k to work to try something out--and if it works, having the momentum to raise more capital.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This lasted from about 2001-2004. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Venture Financings we Discussed. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ).

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Our company developed a cost-conscious mentality. If you’re business has complicated accounting (like many ad network businesses) and if you’re raised enough money to warrant it – a great VP Finance is worth his/her weight in gold.

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Knox Financial raises $10M to take the pain out of being a landlord

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He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004. Knox also has developed a rental pricing and projection model for calculating the investment rate of return a property will produce over time. “We We align our interests with our customers.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. Get started!