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A lot of people reach out to me when they move to New York City and ask about the New York tech community. In the past, I’ve sent them a nice long email of information. But I’m getting tired of that, so in the future, I’m just going to send them a link to this [...]

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One of the greatest benefits of my new job as EIR for Rose Tech Ventures is working in the soon-to-open “startup coworking” space called “SparkSpace.”
It’s a great place to work and colllaborate with other entrepreneurs.
Recently, Mary Kathleen Flynn, of TheDeal.com’s Tech Confidential, came by our space, took a tour, and interviewed David Rose about the [...]

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“Was she being supremely Machiavellian? Or had she simply lost her mind?”
– John Hielemann, on Hillary Clinton’s final weeks campaigning

Today, I’m announcing my plans to close BricaBox, LLC.
This decision, which has taken place over the last few weeks, was as complicated as are my feelings about it. Nonetheless, I can tell you most of this [...]

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Very cool video about NYC Jelly. It was produced by the awesome guys at 10ton and released on Current:

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See Jeremiah’s coverage of the lunch here (his photo above)
One of my favorite things to is show off the best of Silicon Alley to people visiting Silicon Valley - especially influential folks.
Today, I did just that, by having folks converge on Shake Shack in Madison Square Park for lunch with Forrester Researcher Jeremiah Owyang who [...]

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Today, New York-based Thrillist, the producers of wildly popular daily email tips aimed at men (women have Daily Candy), launched their service in Chicago, extending their brand from it’s New York origins and more recent additions of LA and San Francisco.
Keeping with their usual tone, the announcement came with a bit of humor:
Today, two monumentally [...]

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Charlie O’Donnell will be teaching the ITAC’s upcoming entrepreneur boot camp, according to an announcement on his blog. This sounds like a good opportunity to go through the startup process in parallel with Charlie, who has already proven an ability to get the first steps right (like convincing 20 people to hand over a bunch [...]

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If you haven’t gotten your BarCampNYC3 tickets yet, and you planned on being there, you should signup soon — we’re almost sold out! Here’s the link to the RSVP page.
For more information about BarCamp, head to the website. Also, here’s a description:
BarCampNYC3 is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and [...]

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(photo credit: Dave Parmet)
A few weeks back, Charlie O’Donnell asked, in a blog post, an important question: “Why aren’t you working for a startup?“
Now it’s my turn to ask: “Developers of New York, why aren’t you working for BricaBox?”
Two weeks ago, Kyle and I posted a job opening at BricaBox on the nextNY job board, [...]

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UPDATE 1: My friends over at Silicon Alley Insider and Caroline McCarthy of CNET have just reblogged this question.
I’m always shocked by how few people apparently read Chris Sacca’s blog. Yeah, he never writes on it, but he was one of the most influential folks at the Google, and THE most influential in the Google [...]

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