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Announcing nextNY Fellows: An Innovation Community Leadership Initiative

This is going to be BIG.

I am excited to announce nextNY Fellows--a program that will support four new community leaders in 2011 build on what we already have and make it better, all while building their own skills and network. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. Run two nextNY events (e.g.

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

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When I worked at Salesforce we had “city tours” in which a senior exec on our team would fly to a city in America (eventually globally) and host an event with customers and prospects. Building a community goes well beyond hosting events. And then came March 2020 and events globally were being cancelled. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012. It did for me, at least.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. And I can tell you that FRC invites prominent VCs to all their CEO events and mixers. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. And being populist helps that.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. Just as Yves mentored me when I became his co-managing partner in 2011, he didn’t seek to ride off into the sunset either. And all the platform stuff. Wait, What About Yves?

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. In 2011 I started using Instagram. In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur.

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

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It was many events that led to the crash but perhaps this was the pin that pricked the market. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. It was September 2008. The market had tanked. We did not.

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