Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Act II was “revenge of the luddites” in which some local governments banned them and some annoyed citizens stole them or broke them. Santa Monica is a city with congestion problems in the Summer and on weekends and ride-sharing exacerbated this problem. Springtime is Here: A New Watermark Yes, there was seasonality.

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South America Global New York City Software Review 250

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. If you want U.S.

New York City 202

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. He wanted to bring the same level of technology focus and energy that Mayor Bloomberg had brought to New York City.

IPO 191

IPO Los Angeles South Korea Armenia 191

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Founded in New York City in 2012, Kinnek bases its business model on quality over quantity. This makes it completely free, but it works with partners, i.e. government agencies that somehow act as middlemen. This works great as long as you have an updated website with a proper e-store or responsive export managers.

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B2B Saudi Arabia Global United Kingdom 164

David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

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. My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. A lot of new capabilities emerging around Hadoop.

Fractional CTO 122

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Azure 122

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2013

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. I wouldn''t want to live anywhere else.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review New York City New York Startup 110

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait for a curriculum change or some government grant money to come through (although they just got Kaufmann money for it). They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. It was easy peasy.

New York 119

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 119

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. In Singapore, the government has been extremely supportive, and there is entrepreneurial activity, although we have not yet seen very significant companies emerge. Over the last few years, however, several geographies have come up. Discuss.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. If you want U.S.

New York City 120

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 4, 2013

When governments go through leadership changes, it is generally expected that their whole staff gets replaced. When a new CEO for a company is hired, you might change out a few people, but you wouldn''t replace all the key folks. You wouldn''t hire a new GM and just immediately get rid of your All-Star players. Think about it.

New York City 124

New York City New York Government Bandwidth 124

Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

A Harvard Business School report, “ The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation ,” declares that large banks approve only 33 percent of loans under $100,000, compared to 60 percent approved by small banks. This finding was based on a FDIC survey of business owners.

Community 117

Community Technical Review United States New York City 117

Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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.

New York City 102

New York City New York Seattle Social Media 102

Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The Canadian government has its own federal loan programs in the event of a disaster. New York City began a business competition called Rise NYC, designed to promote better disaster preparedness by leveraging a hefty cash prize to the winning business, and all businesses gained plenty of publicity.

SBA 83

SBA New York City Technical Review Small Business Administration 83

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

of The Campbell Firm PLLC , a New York City law firm, said, “The blended [VC] model has a lot of appeal for entrepreneurs … These types of investment models can allow more of a balance between the entrepreneur’s goals and the investor’s goals.”. Governance. Technology-centric businesses.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

As Latinitas ambassadors, they have offered their expertise and support in event planning, marketing, business, technology and more. Before Facebook, she held various roles in Customer Success at Amazon and built global education technology products at Pearson Education in New York City.

Colombia 49

Colombia Texas Startup Arlington 49

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Government Top 5 Mashable Lists Twitter List Directory » 1 @mashable/mashable Followers: 8832 Members: 33 2 @mashable/social-media Followers: 7013 Members: 98 3 @mashable/marketing Followers: 4184 Members: 51 4 @mashable/tech Followers: 3115 Members: 65 5 @mashable/media Followers: 2751 Members: 92 Get Mashable updates on your mobile device!

Developer 73

Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I love technology. And I’ve watched how, in a blink of an eye, technology went from products used by the very few, to ending up in the pockets of billions, bringing social change and corporate disruption. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And that was in New York City.

Social Media 285

Social Media North Korea .Net Europe 285

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms.

Government 99

Government New York City New York San Diego 99

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. Some of the country’s greatest cities are on the brink of calamity. Felix Rohaytn, widely credited with saving New York City in the 1970’s, recently published “ Bold Endeavors. ” [1] In it he warns: “The nation is falling apart – literally.

Private Equity 164

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 164

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

So the New York City government has decided it needs a little social media savvy—you now, since that newfangled Twitter thing came out, they feel like they need to be jumping on board with technology as an early adopter. That’s what’s going to be hard to bring NYC government into “2.0”

Social Media 94

Social Media Government New York City Media 94

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. His description: “We announced a new $500 million fund in Q1 of 2019, in our 10th year. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Bigfoot Capital. to 3.0x.”. Growth support.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Spaces like General Assembly were basically funded with private dollars, and would have happened whether the city gave them a grant or not (See WeWork). Issues like Airbnb and the taxi hailing will get solved with improved communication with city government. Politics Venture Capital & Technology' Are there issues?

New York City 116

New York City Venture Capital New York Bankruptcy 116

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 23, 2012

Fifty years ago this year, the New York City Board of Estimate voted down Robert Moses ' plan to build a ten-lane elevated highway across lower Manhattan--leveling fourteen blocks along Broome Street in Little Italy and what is now SoHo, as well as the West Village. Pro-park, pro jobs, anti-people stealing using technology.

New York City 109

New York City New York Italy Washington 109

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

You have investors from the impact space, but also some straight from the technology industry. So at this point, one of the things we're most proud of is creating and providing multi-day family meal packs of meals that we're distributing through COVID right now, 100,000 meals a day in New York City at this point.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

Austin Startup

JANUARY 9, 2017

Over the next 6 months, I traveled to various parts of the country and abroad to countries like Fiji, Bali, and New Zealand, where I was captivated by the natural beauty of the region. The silence and solitude were a welcome reprieve from the hustle and bustle I was accustomed to in New York City.

Pakistan 48

Pakistan Technical Review Fiji Estonia 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 24, 2017

The Moth The gist: “The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. The Moth Podcast features re-airs of all new episodes of The Moth Radio Hour, plus additional stories from our vast archive recorded over the past two decades.” The Moth is wonderful.

Jordan 48

Jordan Hosting Austin New York City 48

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I had barely crossed the threshold (Feld Technologies has 12 employees and was slightly bigger than $ 1m ) and for the first time as an entrepreneur I spent a concentrated chunk of time surrounded by 50 of my peers. When I do things like this, I don’t have a standard presentation.

New York 134

New York Community New York City Silicon Valley 134

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

To foster the ecosystem in New York City, it seems that the community, investors, and the government have taken an approach that focuses on letting a thousand startups bloom. As Shai points out , if you sell for a billion dollars and have 13 employees like Instagram, you're really not going to do much for the ecosystem.

New York City 116

New York City Startup Angel Investor Cofounder 116

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

And yet, in spite of all this, small emerging firms are largely left out of government contracting. Selling to the government is a slow process in the beginning. They dislike bureaucratic processes even more, so the government marketplace has never been an attractive option for startup firms. That may be about to change.

Government 48

Government Partner Kansas City San Francisco 48

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. The force is bloated with overtime and over-policing in some areas, like the performative anti-terrorist presence on the Brooklyn Bridge that should get replaced with technology and under policing in others, like when it comes to curbing gun trafficking.

Campaign 144

Campaign New York Minneapolis New York City 144

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

RSVP: [link] Saturday, February 27th 9AM: Policy Making in the Digital Age The Morningside Post is thrilled to announce Policy Making in the Digital Age, a conference that will consider how the Internet and digital technology are changing policy making and international affairs. The conference is free and open to the public. RSVP: [link].

Haiti 74

Haiti New York City New York Venture Capital 74

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Strikingly, there are now several state and city government programs specifically designed to make it easier for non-Americans to found companies in NYC. In early 2016, New York City launched the International Innovators Initiative ( IN2NYC ). run technology-focused programming, e.g., trade missions.

New York City 60

New York City Cofounder New York Startup 60

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

By the mid-18th century, the Empress had decreed that vodka distilleries were the exclusive purview of the government and and in the latter half of the 1700s taxes on Vodka sales were responsible for up to 40% of the Czar’s revenue! Meanwhile, distillation of Vodka spread like wildfire to neighboring countries. million workers.

Poland 68

Poland New York City Russia Flash 68

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

In turn, today’s startups may discover that just as modern industries have changed thanks to this new and innovative technology, so have the means by which they can secure funding. These grants can be provided from a variety of sources, including both government and private organizations, to help encourage entrepreneurs.

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Security Finance Angel Investor Incubator 92

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Austin Tech Alliance understands that leveraging the power of technology can play an essential role in helping to tackle issues like affordability, mobility, and environmental preservation — and we believe the next City Manager should also embrace using tech as a tool to solve these civic challenges. Why does the City Manager matter?

Management 59

Management Memphis Minneapolis Minnesota 59

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2018

Recently, Brooklyn City Councilman Rafael Espinal proposed a bill last Thursday that aims to make it illegal for private employees in New York City to be required to check and respond to their work emails or take part in work-related electronic communications during non-work hours. Is a sales pitch an "emergency?"

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New York City New York Government Employee 60