This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

'There are only a few times in my life where I felt like all of NYC was on the same page--sharing the same moment, and most of them were pretty bad. We all went through 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy together, but of course, we''d rather not have had to endure those tragedies, even though we were resiliant. The blackout was shared citywide, and I suppose we fared ok, taking it in stride and even having a little fun, but again, we probably wouldn''t choose to go through it again if we had to.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'Image via TheSocialRobot.com. Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. That’s not bad, but who wants to be average? Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

'By David S. Rose. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. entrepreneur” and by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, David is a former Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. He is the. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve always wanted to read a newspaper like The Daily Prophet from Harry Potter, a daily with animated images and with articles that respond to the reader. Last week, the Guardian, the world’s third-most widely read paper, published NSA Files: Decoded which explores the many different points of view on the NSA’s information collection efforts.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

'The health of a SaaS business is directly tied to its ability to retain its customers and prevent churn. To do this, they have to ensure that their customers are happy. That means making sure they get the promised business benefits they signed up for. This blog post discusses how to measure customer happiness, and […].

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

'I find the Mike Bloomberg NYC tech legacy story really fascinating. I mean, it makes sense, right? Tech entrepreneur mayor presides over NYC tech during an explosion in company creation, job growth and venture funding. Plus, we started all these tech schools, creating all these engineers, right? Only, that''s not quite the way it happened. Don''t get me wrong, I''m THRILLED that we''re going to have some new engineering campuses in NYC and that will pay dividends to the NYC tech community for y

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In almost every industry, startups and venture capital included, content marketing has become an essential tool for growth. Over the past four years, I’ve developed infrastructure, analyses and processes to help this blog grow from just a few visitors per month to nearly a hundred thousand today, achieved a Twitter follower quarterly growth rate of 20% and built a mailing list of close to one thousand readers.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

'Unfortunately, VCs do not typically review business plans. Instead they look at a brief summary, and then decide if they want to invite you in for a meeting. And because VCs, particularly the larger ones, receive many hundreds (or even thousands) of business plans each month, most submissions that come in “over the transom” (that is, ones that are blindly sent to their general email address) don’t actually receive a response at all.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Twitter is the first form of communication that changes depending on who is using it. Like the telephone, the fax, email, Twitter enables all types of communications: friendly banter, customer support requests, news syndication and public service announcements to name a few. But Twitter imposes a three new wrinkles that set it apart as a new form of communication.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

In 2008, iGoogle represented 20% of traffic to Google. Seven years later, the mobile phone is the home screen of choice for a billion people. iGoogle is dead. Mobile killed it. The typical mobile phone user checks their phone 110 times per day. I suspect iGoogle’s most avid users visited about 10 times daily. By that math, mobile home screens generate an order of magnitude more engagement.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In 2013, growth trumps all other considerations. For the average 2013 venture backed tech IPO, half of the startup’s enterprise value is explained by its growth rate, while none of it is explained by profitability. The market has spoken and startups have responded. Of the 25 IPOs I surveyed, both pending and completed, only 20% are profitable.

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