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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

There's no specific agenda or goal, other than to bring together all of the people that have an interest in this great community and its ability to incubate cutting edge and creative ideas.

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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When we study real accounts of innovation, we find that critical moves are often preceded by long spells of reflection or incubation–which are absent from innovation models. In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors. A fantastic example is Demis Hassabis, co-founder of the machine learning AI lab DeepMind.

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Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity

TechCrunch

“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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StartupNation Radio: Kabbage and Bamboo Detroit on COVID-19 Impact

StartupNation

Since its founding in 2009, Kabbage has provided more than $6 billion to SMBs through a fully-automated platform that allows customers to apply in minutes. Currently, Bamboo has approximately 200 hundred startup companies in its incubator. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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Private equity descends on Chartbeat

TechCrunch

Launched out of Betaworks in 2009 , the service offered real-time analytics back when Google Analytics made you wait 24 hours to see who was clicking around your site. Betaworks is headquartered in New York, and known for its early investments in Twitter and Tumblr, and for incubating services like Giphy and Bit.ly.

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The greatest moment to start a company? Right Now!

Jason Calacanis

” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” Github, AWS, WeWork, Fivver, Upwork, and the global workforce meant a startup could launch a product in a 12-week incubator and scale it to millions in revenue in a few years.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

VC funding is definitely back from the constipation that was 2009 replete with frothy valuations chasing dreams of the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga. Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”.