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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've heard that most new angels make 70% of their lifetime investments within the first year of starting to invest--i.e.

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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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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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

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Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. 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.

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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

TechCrunch

The investment brings Knox’s total raised since its inception in 2018 to $14.7 He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004. We want to become the de facto platform for real estate investment acquisition and ownership,” Friedman said.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry?