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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Quinn once again brings out the city government's party line on startups: "Unfortunately, when it comes to new technology startups, New York City lags behind other parts of the country.". Why not instead trumpet the great business stories that are build built here? Let someone else build the chips.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. As a result, business schools launch students into the real world with completely unrealistic expectations, set up to fail.”

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APRIL 15, 2011

Let's be clear, New York City is a big, tough place. People are busy here and it takes a lot for them to stop and notice something. What Techstars proved yesterday was that they could come to New York City, be native, participate and support the ecosystem, and be a serious consideration for the best of entrepreneurs.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The company’s bad behavior was nothing new. CEO Travis Kalenick was caught on film arguing with an Uber driver about Uber’s new plans to lower fares. Just weeks before, Uber was fined $20 million for recruiting drivers while publicly exaggerating claims of their earnings potential. They got worse. Good luck,” Kalanick told his driver.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

All I had to do was to name 5 black tech startup entrepreneurs in New York City when asked by a reporter to do so. If some of those newly trained go start a tech company, that's nice. These opinions are solely my own, for the record—not that of my employer, my family, or bald white guys in general. I'm all for that. Absolutely.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

You can now take advantage of this wisdom directly as Brad has now published it for everybody in a fantastic new book, “Startup Communities.” Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Here are mine: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

Contributed to EO by Shawn Johal, an EO member and former chapter president in Montreal, and Julia Pimsleur, a scaling coach, mindset expert, and best-selling author. He became short-tempered and super impatient with his team and at home, and started saying he wished he could just “walk away.”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Sam’s enthusiasm was infectious and his plans were bold.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Contributed by Maurice Thomas, an EO South Florida member who is one of the Champions of the new EO OneWorld initiative, a membership platform affiliated with EO’s New York chapter which believes that a diverse EO is a stronger EO. He began to describe his latest business acquisition and—suddenly!— Taking the plunge .

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Living in New York City and finding pockets of other Asian Americans, I grew to appreciate my own identity as an Asian American. I would go into specialty and natural food stores in New York City and look at the other independently owned and smaller brands and just cold-Instagram DM or cold-LinkedIn message the founders.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

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. PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted? Reader beware.). Reader beware.).

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JUNE 8, 2014

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. He started selling the mixtapes out of his trunk and even gave away some of his music.

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MARCH 1, 2010

It’s really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. What gets frustrating is that I tend to hear the same arguments over and over again from new entrepreneurs, and many of them are just completely unfunded. I was there, too.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my mind, Randy Newman said it best, “ I love LA &# – idyllic weather, a mélange of cultures and big industry. “Necessity is the mother of all invention&# and drives business outside the Valley. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit. For reason number two people pay a higher price & rent in New York than they do in San Antonio, Texas. It has always stood with me.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2020

The statistics on small business survival are daunting: Only 50 percent of new companies will survive for more than five years in the U.S. Before diving into entrepreneurship, wouldn’t it be ideal to tap into the knowledge of experienced, thriving business owners for advice on failure-proofing a new business?

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MARCH 25, 2013

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. 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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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We first met at Harvard Business School as young students in 1989. We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  But, just as important, we had access to a unique network: Harvard Business School alumni. Here are three key pieces of wisdom to get you started. It is a process.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating.

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APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. This is the list I would start with. ” That always stuck with me.

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MARCH 12, 2013

So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. Greg was the CMO at HauteLook from the early days all the way through growing the business to 12 million registered users and far in excess of $200 million in annual sales. I first met Greg about 4 years ago or so. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more.

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JANUARY 24, 2015

I was waiting for my son’s basketball game to start this morning and with the morning’s emails all drained I turned to Twitter and saw this Tweet from Marshall Kirkpatick. I consider Marshall a business friend. I know him really through online and from that we’ve had phone calls to debate his business and such.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. Your competitors just announced positive news. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. Not lose your cool.

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MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. I will start recruiting soon. The ingredients are all here.

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MAY 12, 2010

Once I was done writing my post and had re-read it I started thinking more abstractly about decision making. It was best practice then. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. It seems to me this is the main problem with boards.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

But I start most conversations with “wantrepreneurs&# by saying, “make sure it’s in your personality type, make sure you have the risk appetite, make sure you can afford to take the risks given your life situations and make sure you know that there is a high possibility your startup won’t be hugely financially rewarding.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It's not that this latter group isn't aggressive enough--after all, they're ditching everything else they could to to start companies. If I told you I had the best idea since sliced bread, and I was raising $10k, you would assume a few things. Yet this is a message I'm giving to women and people of color all the time. That is a fact.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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MAY 15, 2010

We just had our sixth episode of #TWiVC and I felt this one was the best. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. This week was had Jason Calacanis as our guest. short answer: very, very rarely. We covered the topics discussed on VentureHacks.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. Revolution, what is it?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. It isn’t new stuff. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 And then came AOL.

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JUNE 17, 2010

You've heard the arguments before--Wall Street sucks up all the best talent in NYC and that's why its so tough to recruit here. You see, financial recruiting in New York City is machine--a machine that creates a lot of noise and whose gears start churning as early as sophomore year of college.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 26, 2022

Next, Brad and Jason did what entrepreneurs do best: Scaled the initiative. Nearly 20 participating EO chapters are already reaping the value from this initiative, including EO Toronto, EO New Zealand, EO Brisbane, EO South Florida, EO MEPA Bridge, EO Fort Worth, EO Europe and EO Western New York. Sister chapters.

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