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Why the NYC startup scene needs Sean Parker

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He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. or would he have been convinced to take a financing round? Companies going for the long ball aren't discovered--they're juiced up to go for the homerun, with financing. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users.

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

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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. Startup success is a team effort and you can't just have great entrepreneurs. Angels: Focus and pace. You can sign up here.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. It literally drove FOMO. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

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2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Hopefully this becomes the year that most of the startup teams you see have not only a business person and a tech person, but also a designer--and you start to see people looking for "design co-founders".

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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It’s a great topic, his post is well written and given that he’s going through it right now in his startup it’s worth reading his point of view on the topic. Startups often make this mistake. Like everything, I screwed this up in my first startup. I was too much Accenture, not enough Startup.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This lasted from about 2001-2004. It’s basically office space where as a startup you can be located with dozens of other companies at a similar stage to your own. Venture Financings we Discussed. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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The Stock Dive: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

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2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. The incentive is too strong.

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