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APRIL 27, 2013

They often ask whether they have to move to SF, NY or LA to get financed. I’m in NY 6-8 times. Importantly … I would pitch investors in SF, NY, Boston, LA, etc. I travel the country a lot. And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. and say the following.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Fly out to CA, NY, BOS and tell investors that you’ll willing to do the majority of board meetings there. Mavens are people like Gary V or Joanne Wilson in NY, Brad Feld & David Cohen in Boulder or Paddy Cosgrave in Dublin. They often fly back at least once if not twice a year to see family. Mavens are evangelizers.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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MARCH 1, 2011

However, hackNY is working on perhaps the single biggest challenge facing NY startups – and we felt it important to participate. (It As a small seed fund, we generally don’t have a lot of extra cash to fund all of these great programs, leaving sponsorships to our larger, more well funded venture brethren.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

One of the people I mentored is now a senior executive at AOL in NY. But the most important metric has been the deep and lasting relationships that have been built with startups and also between senior executives. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Last week displayed the best of LA last week for a gala event of all of Upfront’s portfolio companies + the CEOs of many of LA’s top technology companies + 75 VC firms from LA, SF, NY & Boston + 25 LP Funds + the Chairman of Yahoo! Maynard Webb) and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti.

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Dream It

APRIL 2, 2019

Press Release The venture fund and growth-focused accelerator accepted the cohort from a field of nearly 2,000 pre-Series A companies NEW YORK CITY, NY — April 2, 2019 — Dreamit Ventures, an early stage venture fund and growth-focused accelerator, announced its latest batch of startups this week.

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MAY 20, 2015

There are now so many great online video producers in LA & NY who are perfecting their craft and looking to be discovered. We often recommend Sandwhich to startups since they’ve done great work with several of our portfolio companies. But in many ways I think the future of online storytelling will evolve.

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APRIL 9, 2012

The NY Tech Meetup, for example, used to meet in the back conference room of Meetup's NYC offices. It didn't much matter because there wasn't much to go to besides the NY Tech Meetup anyway. It wasn't always like that, though. There were 30 of us the first time I went back in 2005.

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MARCH 1, 2010

5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle #2. 7PM NY Tech Meetup: FinTech and more! You know, if I was the kind of guy that pimped out his own firm's newly redesigned website on a weekly community newsletter that goes out to over 1,000 people, I might include a link to the new FirstRound.com. Tuesday, March 2nd. RSVP: [link]. Back to demos.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Entrepreneurs have created such Meetups as the NY Latino Tech Meetup and Japan NYC Startups. Lastly, the numerous local accelerators serve as platforms for internationals coming to the NY. ” [Update: no longer active in NY]. An increasing number of Israeli companies are now building their US presence in NY.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

RSVP: [link] Friday, February 26th 7PM NY Tech Cares about Haiti An organization of many groups with presence in the NY global hub who devote it's activities and profit raised to registered 501(c)3 organizations (Oxfam America) which support Haiti in 2010 or who focus on disaster affected areas.Mission:In light of the heart wrenching devastation that (..)

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

NY has a million including the obvious ones like AdWeek. And aside from the obvious pride of getting involved with your home town, you obviously know a lot more about the local strengths of human resources that places like San Francisco, NY or LA might be quicker to dismiss. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon.

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MAY 12, 2011

I think the most random of all tech connection hobbies is when Josesphine Dorado got some NY tech folks to go out skydiving. Dinner parties like the Ted & Amy Supper Club and CityGrit are often stocked with people from the digital world because of where their founders work. Even Grubwithus has been throwing Hacker News meals.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The diversity is the direct result of our mission—to build the most accessible venture capital fund in NY. All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money. I don’t require warm intros. I will back a wide variety of types of companies—everything from The Wing to Imagen.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 25, 2019

All you need to do is Google “New York’s Climate and Community Protection Act” and read the NY Post ( against ) and the NY Daily News ( for ) and you will see the various sides of the debate. There is plenty of debate on whether CCPA is good policy or bad policy.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

If you publish a book, how do you get on the NY Times best seller list? If large volumes are purchased from a small number of locations I’m told the NY Times discounts this. And the first people to do this garnered much benefit. Simply write a great book? But can you be rich and simply buy enough books to be on the list?

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Source Link

APRIL 1, 2022

Exciting features and new enhancements to our SourceLink technologies. The agenda included an overview of exciting new enhancements to The Resource Navigator®, SourceLink?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

In late December, The New York Times sued OpenAI and its close collaborator and investor, Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. Today, OpenAI gave a public response, claiming — unsurprisingly — that The Times’ lawsuit is meritless.

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JULY 17, 2014

It''s been great to work with Karin at Bloomberg Beta, Alberto at Collaborative Fund, and Brett from MentorTech, and to have supporters like A16Z and NY Angels. I''m really proud of the work of the people behind the company--Daniela, Jorge, John Levy, who has been with them from the very early days, and their whole tech team.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’ve often talked about the NY advantage of having the NY Times, WSJ, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Magazine and even the editor of TechCrunch based there. There is no question NY startups get disproportionate press. Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. It’s awesome.

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APRIL 1, 2014

The NY Tech Meetup was held in the back conference room of Meetup and 25 was a good turnout. Oh, the deals I could find if I was working there with a real desk. Plus, the NYC ecosystem is so much more vibrant. Back then, it was a big deal if you had ten people who could write code at your company.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). The future certainly looks brighter to me. That’s why I say, “ It’s Morning in VC & the Startup World.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

I did so before when he originally uttered the accents comment for the NY Times. Still, his factual comments are tone deaf because they are lost in translation as they are amplified in the media and we have a responsibility to call that out and not tolerate bias.

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MAY 21, 2011

Will you get the TechCrunch bump, the tier-1 VC anointment, followed by great PR firm support and then the NY Times or WSJ story that follows? The challenge that many startups face today is: Are you really providing enough value? This year’s Tamagotchi?

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

NY Angels sponsored this award, continuing in its campaign to educate entrepreneurs on the importance of bringing on experienced investors. The Most Valuable Angel had co-winners—tagteam Josh Stylman and Pete Hershberg beat out Chris Dixon, 44.2% Steven Messer brought in 15.4%

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MARCH 25, 2013

The definitive article about 33 Flatbush--the kind of commercial building you would drive by a million times without thinking twice-- was written in the NY Times a few years ago. As the group prepares a move to upstate NY, they've started the profess of shedding their Brooklyn Heights holdings.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 2, 2020

And yesterday, NY State launched Covid Alert NY that was built on those open source code bases. Covid Alert NY was built by the NYS Dept. Here’s how Covid NY works: Phones that have downloaded the app are assigned a random ID that can be exchanged with other phones via Bluetooth technology.

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MARCH 9, 2010

First Round Capital could do zero deals in New York over the next 12 months and they would still have a major impact on the NY startup scene because they’re paying Charlie O’Donnell to hang out in the Ace Hotel Lobby and chat with any entrepreneur who walks up to him.

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MAY 14, 2012

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. It's in the Financial District--right at 55 Broad Street. It says so right on their website. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.".

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JULY 12, 2011

So it was fun to turn the cameras on him for 45 minutes for a special “NY edition of This Week in VC&# and hearing his views. Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. Hopefully it will entice you to come back and watch the show at a later time!

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. Today, we would add places like Miami and Salt Lake City to that age old debate.

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JULY 14, 2015

Then I checked the NY Times and realized this that the US has passed an historic nuclear deal with Iran and since for me Twitter is a real-time news platform I figured I would Tweet what I was thinking. I always imagine that in NY I’m going to sneak out and see a Broadway show but I never do.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

I was reminded of this watching my NY Knicks navigate the off-season after making the playoffs for the first time in eight years. You need to have a five to ten-year plan and you need to stick with it and execute against it day after day, week after week, year after year.

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MAY 9, 2012

And those in CA and NY are quick to dismiss that which doesn’t feel like home. It’s easy to discount Cincy – it’s a “flyover state.” But I found resonance in meeting the local investors and startups.

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AUGUST 17, 2015

There is much discussion about this weekend’s article in the NY Times regarding Amazon’s work practices. People seem polarized between, “that’s what it takes to succeed” to “I can’t believe what a heartless, intolerant and misogynistic company culture they’ve built.”

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MAY 15, 2013

Still – she can do the NY Times crossword puzzle better and faster than I. She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. From this I saw civic involvement and leadership first hand. She was a nurse but was never graduated from a 4-year college. Even today. She was a hustler. And a ball buster. And a natural sales person.

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