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Creative Entrepreneur Trinette Faint Brings [Real] Social Back

Jason Malki

Trinette Faint (Photo by Coco Jourdana ) I had the pleasure of interviewing Trinette Faint, a creative entrepreneur, screenwriter, novelist, and actress. Trinette has upcoming networking events in Rome and New York, with other cities in the works, and is hosting a women’s retreat in Velletri, Italy, in October. Plus, to use my French!

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RFQ | Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Project Management

Forward Cities

Aligned with direct services to entrepreneurs, the E3 Alliance—a dynamic advisory council of local entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) and community partners—serves as a collaborative engine for aligned priorities and action. Responsibilities include venue and speaker scheduling, participant communication, and event day logistics.

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How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event

This is going to be BIG.

My company is Bread and we make ad creative super easy. They’re looking to spend only a precious few seconds with each person, forcing you to rush your pitch. So much of a VC’s work behind the scenes of their inbox is trying to figure out if this person is for real and you’re only giving them the pitch to vet. My name is Alan.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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Thinking About Berlin: Unleashing a Creative Opportunity

This is going to be BIG.

You're not going to replicate the Valley, but you could certainly look to a place that went from essentially zero to the second most proflific startup communities in 15 years (or 8 years, depending on if you count the fact that we came back from zero again dating back to '04). There are a ton of fantastically creative people here.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?

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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

Both Sides of the Table

It is always a stellar event. It is Nikolas Tesla pitching a VC firm. Because the videos show exactly what life would be like if a young Elon Musk came to pitch VCs today and said I want to transform P2P finance, get people driving electric cars and send a man to mars in our lifetime. But Elon Musk stole the show.

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