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Stowe Boyd of True/Slant has a new blog on the NYC Startup Scene called Hotbed. This is an awesome development. Cody Brown asked, I seconded, Chris Dixon approved, and now it seems we have all received. Awesome. Welcome Stowe! Now that you're here,...
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Funny thing happened last week.The post I wrote, NYC vs Silicon Valley, kinda blew up and set off wave of dicussion in the blogosphere. Silicon Alley Insider republished it and Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Roger Ehrenberg, and now ReadWriteWeb all responded. Some folks...
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Last night, Cody Brown wrote: I can say that personally, I learn about NYC tech news almost purely from a collection of blogs I find through Twitter. There is Silicon Alley and Tech Crunch articles about NYC startups but most of the time, I’m leaning about NYC Tech...
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The reason we charge a fee is because we're between a rock and a hard place. The unfortunate but accurate fact is that 90% of all companies requesting funding are simply not fundable, by anyone, anywhere…no matter how earnest the entrepreneur might be. The...
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Comfortable with Uncertainty Posted on: Friday, February 26th, 2010 When do you know? I mean, really know? Slumped into my couch, pale from a lack of sleep, nose red from the cold he can’t shake, the CEO shook off my suggestion about this being the time to hire an...
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UPDATE: David S. Rose, Chairman of the NY Angels, responded in the comments below and I broke it out into its own post. In the comments of my previous post, Nate Westheimer, the NY Tech organizer and former EIR at Rose Tech Ventures, wrote this as part of a long,...
