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APRIL 27, 2010

This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. I always here that there aren’t enough good tech product managers in the city, so I figured why not just go and try to make more—or make the up and coming ones better. It’s a recipe for failure.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I generally like NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. Hey everyone!

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

From 2005 to 2009, I was fortunate enough to be part of a small group of New York City innovation community leaders that sowed some of the seeds of the thriving tech hub we have today. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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DECEMBER 28, 2013

All of the companies but one were funded in NYC, with the other in Boston. A couple of years ago, I went to a networking event sponsored by a top tier VC firm. It was held at a trendy Lower East Side bar where the price of the drinks made it the kind of place that a typical NYC entrepreneur would never actually go.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

You see, the crowd here was part of the event—and while sure, there isn’t a single entrepreneur who wouldn’t like to hear about the birth of Instapaper or #newtwitter, if you actually put everyone in the room who would have wanted to be there, you’d have the New York Tech Meetup. That’s kind of the point. It doesn’t need to grow.

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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. Just because there’s only a handful of VC bloggers in NYC doesn’t mean there aren’t 100’s… and yes, I mean 100’s of smart, experienced places to turn for investment in NYC.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Last week, we ran Fall Fundraising Days , which featured 11 NYC events on raising capital that 800+ individuals attended across the week. This story from Cherae Robinson was just one other example of how our events helped someone we didn’t back (we have a portfolio conflict) reach their potential.

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MARCH 10, 2011

New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators. Plus, there are a ton of in person networking and educational events related to startups that are free or relatively inexpensive. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2021

It was midnight in Singapore and noon in NYC. In the last year, events like the latter one have been commonplace. Events like the former have been non-existent. And founders in Singapore can access capital markets in NYC with ease. And investors in NYC can access investments in Singapore with ease.

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APRIL 9, 2012

These days, it's kind of hard to miss what's going on in the NYC startup community. 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.

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MARCH 1, 2010

If you'd like to receive this events list by e-mail every Monday morning, just sign up here. 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle #2. 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle #2. 7PM NY Tech Meetup: FinTech and more! EVENT OF THE WEEK: 6:30PM Ignite: Brooklyn Edition. 8AM: Code Camp NYC 4. Tuesday, March 2nd.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

I pretty much thought the Google of the New York tech scene was, in fact, Google. That's why there's a lot of potential low hanging leadership fruit for anyone who cuts across several industries--like Julia Kaganskiy of the Arts & Tech Meetup. People ask me how much time it takes for me to put out my NYC events list each week.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

I’m just as familiar with the New York Tech Meetup as anyone. I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and participated on it until last year. or the Tech Biz Dev Meetup. One focus that I’d like to try to use the New York Tech Meetup as a platform for is nurturing more leaders.

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JUNE 14, 2011

What I also learned from this event as well as our recent NYC area First Round portfolio employee happy hour is how valauble it can be just getting the people we invest in to talk to each other.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

There's a thread going on Twitter about doing a BarCamp in NYC again. I started with a tweet from Jeff Namnum about how he joined the tech community. Sure, it's great that NYC has scaled into the second largest tech community in the world, with layers upon layers of knowledge and experience, successful growing companies, etc.,

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JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. You can hold great events that attract people to a city on an annual basis. The Components of any Great startup community.

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MAY 7, 2012

It's not that I don't like new places--I've just spent a lot of time diving pretty deep into my own city and going all in on a career based off of being rooted in NYC. That's why I thought it was a bit of an odd choice to be asked to comment on the Berlin tech scene for the NextBerlin conference. It makes sense.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Stick around long enough in a big tech community and you''ll see your share of big company evangelists come and go. I feel like NYC knew Twillio because NYC knew John. a content producer, a technical person who knows your product and loves it, an events manager, etc. 5) Set me up with free event space whenever I need.*.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What we did: Rise of the Rest Managing Partner, David Hall , joined Cofounders Capital Managing Partner, Tim McLoughlin, onstage at the Network for Entrepreneurs, Wilmington’s community event. Read more on the visit and Port City’s burgeoning tech ecosystem in WilmintonBiz. Check out event highlights and the winning startups.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 26, 2023

Ten years ago, a small group of folks in the K12 Computer Science Education community in NYC decided to put on a “mock job fair” for high school students who were taking computer science classes in the NYC public schools. Yesterday we got the Fair back in person after three years of not doing it or doing it remotely.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

It would be easy to assume that now that I’m a parent, my deal pace of 8-10 deals per year might slow down—but I’ve realized something: I’m more motivated than ever to lead pre-seed and seed rounds in NYC startups because I have a daughter. So, if you’re building something interesting in NYC at a very early stage, please do reach out.

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JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles. Tech Market Analysis'

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week.

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MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. They can then direct staff, allocate budgets, talk to the press, connect you with politicians and attend events. Every region needs its local media & events.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

As I finished up my weekly newsletter of NYC's tech events and classes , I thought a lot about some recent conversations I've had with some new entrants into the startup ecosystem--enthusiastic young professionals whose stated goals centered around learning.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

I wrote about my experience in this post and why I enjoyed this event more than most. They have very little “other business” in Austin as they would when the come to NYC, SF or LA. ” The event seems to be more focused on 6pm – 3am than it does to people sitting and watching panels. Speaking at events.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. News outlets from USA Today to Mashable to Brooklyn’s Technical.ly

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AUGUST 8, 2011

He was a product guy for a start-up and his big claim to fame was organizing a bunch of local high-tech events. Be that as it may, don't think I don't ask myself what I'm doing on various lists and getting into different events. Surely--but then I realize how difficult it is to be an early stage VC in NYC. What did I do?

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JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

First, they spend time throwing product ideas over to your tech team like grenades—blowing up carefully laid and simple product roadmaps, scattering them with feature creep shrapnel. When all is said and done, and if you’ve nailed your pitch, you might consider checking out nextNY’s ABC (Always Be Closing) Pitch Event with the Daily News.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

I've seen about a dozen companies in the last year trying to help me figure out what to do with my time and how to collaborate with my friends around events. Companies like Publicstuff and Votizen that help us connect with our elected officials and local governments are going to get a lot of dollars and attention this year. Calendaring.

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JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. They don’t feel the need to do a deal in NYC today, India next week, SF the following.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Hopefully, you can find a way in to some of these events as most are sold out. RSVP: [link] 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle The NYTM Student Group's mission is to encourage the involvement of students and student leaders in the New York City tech community and thereby better educate and prepare tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

It was many events that led to the crash but perhaps this was the pin that pricked the market. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. And don’t think tech will remain immune. On your tech platforms. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

Big buildings contribute to carbon emissions which cause global warming and extreme weather events. On Real Estate Tech Zillow rolled out a 3D home touring feature across all of North America that allows agents to use iPhones or more advanced cameras to create a more robust listing.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

Tuesday, January 19th 5:00PM Jan #140conf NYC Meetup An opportunity to discuss the emerging Real-Time Internet and the effects on business. Get updated on future Entrepreneurs Roundtable events: [link] 7:00PM: Etsy Speaker Series: Douglas Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff is an award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker and scholar.

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