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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

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I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. Names like Sun and Cornell (ironically, given the new tech campus) were brought in to try and tech-ify NYC's downtown area. Unfortunately, there wasn't much actual tech being built in 55 Broad. So why didn't it work?

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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.” That means both making people comfortable who wouldn’t otherwise feel welcome in the “tech community” and curating for top tier doers and the most successful.

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Don't ask "Why Brooklyn?" Ask "How?"

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I'm not limited to making events geographically and being here won't stop me from doing deals in Manhattan, Boston, Toronto, DC or even SF. NYC startups need that perspective if they want to avoid the Silicon Valley groupthink that sometimes plagues the West Coast venture world. You're seeting it in Downtown SF.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book. A Strong Pool of Tech Founders – Stating the obvious. But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. Here are mine: 1. And build from there.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

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This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. I always here that there aren’t enough good tech product managers in the city, so I figured why not just go and try to make more—or make the up and coming ones better. It’s a recipe for failure.

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

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I generally like NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. Hey everyone!

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@Shakeshack 3 Recap

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This year’s @shakeshack event, nextNY’s third annual party in Madison Square Park, was undoubtedly the best ever. The event also marked the end of voting for the first nextNY Community awards, made possible by the generous sponsors of the event. for the Best E-mail Driven NYC Startup, sponsored by Experian Cheetahmail.

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