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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. There isn’t a single person in the NYC that is more excited than I am about how far we’ve come.

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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. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Competitors: Gowalla.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This lasted from about 2001-2004. Venture Financings we Discussed. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies.

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

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After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). It took 3-4 months into the development of the product for Hashable to realize that it is a mobile first, web second service. This feature is in development right now. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time.

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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.