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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. They can have some longer term impacts through educational institutions. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

TechCrunch

Financed by private investors, and media conglomerate Vivendi, the company declined to disclose its total capital raised to date. It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. A popular competitor already exists: Chess.com.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Finance where needed. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. That can only come through education, training and investment in regions of the country that are not IT centers. We thought the following: No new deals close until we figure out WTF is going on with the market. We need some visibility.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

TechCrunch

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 billion (£7 billion), came from Jerusalem.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. But how do you convince millions of people that need to be educated that they have a document management problems to upload their documents in the first place?

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