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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

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Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. "Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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Minimum Viable Team

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Understanding the audience and designing products that suit their needs requires close cross-functional collaboration to get it right. While you're out pitching to investors and press in the outside role, they're testing to see whether or not people understand the word "invite" versus "request" in the context of your app.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

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Below is a link to the pitch video. There wasn’t any context around it—not exactly something I’d call a “pitch”. I explained that this wasn’t really a pitch because it lacked all sorts of context. Having been called out, I set up a meeting—but I didn’t do it to take a charity pitch. Who was the team?

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

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One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. I've seen about a dozen companies in the last year trying to help me figure out what to do with my time and how to collaborate with my friends around events. What areas are going to change? Calendaring.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Scrintal’s $1M seed deck

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There’s no shortage of tools for brainstorming, collaboration and keeping all your knowledge in one place. Scrintal recently raised $1 million to build its visual collaborative knowledge base tool and shared its deck for us to take a peek under the hood. I reviewed 1,000+ pitch decks.

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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

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Would we pitch Series A players? It's too easy to think that if you tilt the pitch just a little one way or the other, that's going to make the difference, but that's Monday morning quarterbacking. What we found is that while most of the people turned down the invite, most of the people who showed up invested.

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