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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. RSVP: [link] 12PM Networked News Gatherers: Defining the Social Media Editor Role, hosted by Time Inc. What are the most significant education technology trends of 2010 and beyond? So which is it? RSVP: [link].

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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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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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They got us to fill out the details of where we worked in the past and the network effect compels us to keep it updated. So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing. It doesn’t strike me as a “social network&# in the way we’ve come to define them.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Specifically we talked about what single trigger vs. double trigger acceleration works and “termination without ’cause’ &#. has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. DEAL OF THE WEEK.

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