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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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Rebuilding the California DreamĀ 

Andreessen Horowitz

Jan: California Forever is an attempt to make sure that the Bay Area remains the center of innovation and prosperity that it’s been for the last 50 years. And so, we think that Solano County can become the foundry of American defense innovation for the next 50 years. We couldn’t innovate as quickly as we could otherwise.

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

What weā€™re doing is quite innovative, so weā€™re learning by doing,ā€ Ekeland said. For instance, 2050 will contribute to UniversitĆ© Paris Dauphineā€™s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. Regularly, 2050 will open up liquidity distribution windows. New investors will purchase those positions.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerlandā€™s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The countryā€™s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

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. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financingā€”and that wasnā€™t the cityā€™s fault, it was mine. I was there, too. Theyā€™re all doing pretty well.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

I wanted someone who was experimenting with computer controlled LEDs as an art form to feel part of the community as well--which is why I started referring to it as the "Innovation Community". Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.

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Why Yelp should pay attention to not shooting itself in the face (and what ripping off Foursquare and taking big money from Elevation mean)

This is going to be BIG.

Whitney McNamara referred to as the ā€œpost that launched 1000 VCsā€, but it was really meant to open up a dialogue between an innovative little company hyperfocused on an important piece of dataā€”when people show up to venuesā€”and a bigger company dependent on relationships with venues. Good luck hiring anyone innovative, too.

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