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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

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I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus.

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The bar is higher

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There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators.

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When VCs Play Defense

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The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. They want you to attend demo days. I’ll go as long as it’s not on a demo day. It’s exhausting.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Accelerators have been great for our respective communities. Demo’d to death. Quality endures.

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Techstars NYC Killed It

This is going to be BIG.

So if you're going to come to NYC and you want to make an impact, you better bring your A-game, and that's exactly what Techstars did yesterday at Demo Day. These companies have all the momentum they could ever hope to achieve and the investor community is abuzz over how impressive they all were. So congrats, guys.

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The Amazing Disappearing VC

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Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever. Drop by AngelList, where startups have been vetted by a community of advisors and other investors.

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Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator launches 12 new startups at demo day tomorrow

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The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an incubator based in New York, is introducing 12 new companies at its 20th demo day tomorrow. Turnout is a platform built specifically for internal communities and groups within an organization, making it easier for employees to host events and discussions across their company.