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How I learned to change the oil in my car and found a new office because of Shake Shack and a hackathon

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After seeing my ability to bring a big community together, she wound up introducing me to TK because he was running a hackathon of his own around the first Techcrunch Disrupt in NYC in 2010. Later in 2010, I was introduced by Fabian to Andres Wuerfel , who was leading Deustche Telekom''s Innovation Group.

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How To Use AI-Assisted Brainstorming To Boost Innovation in Remote Work

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However, this perspective began to shift dramatically after 2010, thanks to technological advancements that facilitated remote collaboration. In the 1980s, remote teams were 5 percent less innovative than their in-person counterparts, but the gap narrowed to 1 percent by 2010.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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This Week in New York Tech - January 11th

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NYC Chapter January 2010 Meetup January meetup is dedicated to " enabling better care by enabling clinical staff" and we have just the presenters for that. January 2010 Presenters: 1. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM Health 2.0 YourNurseIsOn - Matthew Browning, CEO 2.

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The Startups and Investors Bringing Voice Tech to Healthcare

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Its initial use cases target pharma companies to enable the creation of voice and chatbot products to improve sales reps’ performance, complement their medical science liaisons, and support clinical trial sites and investigators. The Echo-integrated product enables them to alert staff in a hands-free way if they fall or have an emergency.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. This has spawned growth in related VC-backed businesses like Burstly, TapJoy and Flurry who help enable real-time transactions in mobile apps. Today’s Normalization.