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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

Up and Running

But don’t fret—community lenders are helping small businesses. Meet the community lenders. Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are one type of community lender. They are usually nonprofit organizations committed to the mission of making capital accessible to the communities they serve.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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NYC: Regulatory nightmare for tech startups trying to conduct consumer friendly businesses

This is going to be BIG.

New York City is a fantastic place to live--I''ve been here all my life. So when the city government seems to be bending over backwards to make tech companies want to start and grow their businesses here, conducting business here might be another story. It''s embarrassing for us as a tech community.

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Funding Sources for Your Nonprofit

Up and Running

You probably know everything there is to know about your community or cause, but making decisions about the right approach to handling nonprofit finances can be a challenge. For some organizations, government funding is ideal and straightforward. Supporters participate in a fundraiser for AIDS-related causes in New York City.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. Social networking is governed by SEC 17a4, and SEC hasn’t opined on this. One peculiar note: they didn’t disclose the companies selected.

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Amazon “Swipes Left” On New York City

Haystack

Today, Amazon announced it will entirely abandon its plans to build its second headquarters (a/k/a “HQ2”) in Long Island City, a residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. I believe this will be talked about for months, which in today’s news cycle is saying something.

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The Path of Our Lives

Steve Blank

I didn’t, growing up in a New York City apartment that seemed more like an outpatient clinic. Most take what they learned in school, get a job, marry, buy a house, have a family, become a great parent, serve their god, community and country, hang with friends and live a good life. And for them that’s great.

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