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How to Launch Your Startup Without a Launch

This is going to be BIG.

Interview people about their coffee routine in a kind of Coffee Drinkers of NY account, similar to Humans of NY. Launching a pet care product? Spotlight the incredible work being done by no-kill shelters. New coffee brand?

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The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow

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nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. How do you get 150+ VCs to show up for something? Promise them some good deal flow, of course. Last year, over 150 VCs participated and were looking forward to having even more.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. That sets LA & NY up nicely for a number of emerging content creation industries.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

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Sam moved back to NY and we announced our seed round of capital, which we led. I’m long NY. He hired his co-founder and CTO Adam LeVasseur who set out to build systems to allow you to see all of your storage items in a beautiful app but also to build tech for logistics, driver management, customer service, billing and so forth.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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Builders in NY were less willing to abandon traditional building methods and ornate edifices. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. But after The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 the city had to build from scratch. And every visionary architect and builder wanted a chance at building the future.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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I think NY has always – by definition – been urban. In NY you find the broader Flatiron / Union Square are home to USV (obviously), IA Ventures, First Round Capital, FF Ventures and the incubators General Assembly and TechStars. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Fly out to CA, NY, BOS and tell investors that you’ll willing to do the majority of board meetings there. Mavens are people like Gary V or Joanne Wilson in NY, Brad Feld & David Cohen in Boulder or Paddy Cosgrave in Dublin. They often fly back at least once if not twice a year to see family. Mavens are evangelizers.

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