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This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 27, 2010
The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded. They just booked some space at NYU, threw up a fundraising page on Kickstarter, and started talking it up in the community. It’s a recipe for failure. It was easy peasy.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 1, 2010
I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help build up the NYC innovation community. It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. I was there, too. They’re not “dumb Wall Street money”.
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