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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

With that in mind, I tried to come up with a structure and set of incentives to make it easier for new up and coming faces in the crowd to step up and make a name for themselves by making a positive impact on the innovation community. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development.

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Innovation Stacks and Crazy Entrepreneurs

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In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. Here, he explains what an Innovation Stack is, plus what makes a real entrepreneur. . What is an Innovation Stack? If you succeed, you have an Innovation Stack.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

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Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. The book profiles markets like those for books. Now as an author you can actually publish and be able to sell only a thousand books. Even a hundred.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. You have a hunch.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

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It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago?—?they I hadn’t known Derek before but he knew I was a huge fan of the late Clayton Christensen, the HBS professor and author of the highly influential book, “ The Innovator’s Dilemma.” somebody he knew from afar?—?to