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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. Who are the community leaders that will move us forward and who are the potential ones that we can support to take more active roles?

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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. Additionally, those who run lean operations and raised money from supportive investor bases will be best positioned. In the end.

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Buckle up before we sell out — here comes TechCrunch Early Stage 2023

TechCrunch

Wilcox founded E Ink, which commercialized electronic paper displays and was acquired by Amazon in 2009. TC Early Stage is prime networking real estate and offers multiple ways to connect with the people who can help you realize and/or support your goals. Currently he’s a partner at Pillar VC. Who knows?

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The Best Coworking Spaces in Detroit for Your Hybrid Work Model

StartupNation

Coworking spaces support hybrid work models in a variety of ways. Additionally, we offer supportive and inspiring programming and events to keep members inspired and connected. We have also taken this opportunity to update our IT systems to support the needs of the new hybrid remote workforce,” Whitinger said.

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Impact Hub San Francisco Closure

Impact Hub

As one of the first spaces to open in North America by joining the Impact Hub network in 2009, Impact Hub San Francisco has had significant impact in their community including housing and supporting the Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP) in its early years.

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Data on the “seedpocalypse”

Tomasz Tunguz

Incubators have arisen to provide education and a fundraising launching pad for these young founders. If our assumption about the data quality is correct, then it’s reasonable to conclude that the volume of seed investment has either remained constant or slowed since 2009. Seed companies must still raise Series As to scale.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Ycombinator, the incubator of billion dollar unicorns, is a unicorn itself.