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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

The phenomenon, they argue, will accelerate creativity across a larger network. What are the most significant education technology trends of 2010 and beyond? Others, meanwhile, have predicted that it is a passing fad but one that downward pressure on prices on current agency work. So which is it?

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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But the rate of change has accelerated and with it, the balance of internal versus external investment. Since 2010, we’ve. Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups.

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Small Groups and the Long Game at #SXSW

This is going to be BIG.

In 2010, I funded his company, Backupify , which has gone on to raise over $19 million in funding and is set to have their best year of revenue to date. We connected around R/GA''s role in the tech community and here I am now, a mentor in the R/GA hardware accelerator. I didn''t meet Rob at a big flashy party. I''m only half kidding.

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Seed Round Pricing (Actual data warning!)

This is going to be BIG.

Since January of 2010, when I led my first seed investment in Backupify , I have led or committed to 27 investments. You start out at an accelerator or just raising some friends and family and that tends to be small potatoes. It would have lots of philosophy, religion, theory, fiction, and pontification.

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Paul Graham and The World Out There

This is going to be BIG.

YCombinator had a great run from 2007 through early 2009 investing at a time when there weren''t nearly as many seed funds and accelerators as there are now. My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009.

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In My Words: Aaron Lee on How EO Accelerator Altered His Journey

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me. In the summer of 2010, just after graduating into EO, I was standing on a cliff enjoying the amazing view in Positano, Italy, when it hit me. One of the most meaningful discoveries I made in EO Accelerator was that I was not alone as an entrepreneur.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.