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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community. 50:30 Will Udacity change the education system in this country?

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The Future of Brick and Mortar

This is going to be BIG.

In Bay Ridge, The Art Room is a store front fine arts school for kids and represents the tip of the iceberg in storefront education centers. Perhaps the most widely known example that touches the tech community is General Assembly --almost 30,000 square feet.

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

This is going to be BIG.

RSVP: [link] 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle The NYTM Student Group's mission is to encourage the involvement of students and student leaders in the New York City tech community and thereby better educate and prepare tomorrow's entrepreneurs. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. Launch of a social site. curated.

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The Importance of The Narrative

Both Sides of the Table

I started off by running some lower-level roles like community service. By the end of my sophomore year I had taken on the role of education for our new freshman pledges and by the first quarter of my junior year I led the pledge class entirely. I presented behind a lectern. Gregory was into theater. That’s a fact.

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The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems

This is going to be BIG.

They’re building campuses, districts, buildings, spaces, as well as running new educational efforts and contests—basically anything they can think of to foster the growth of new and innovative companies. This is exactly the wrong way to think about the economic opportunity presented by innovation.

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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

This revealed a much larger problem in Cinthya’s community and country: “clothing is the second-most environmentally-harmful industry, right after oil,” says Cinthya. The goal to eliminate clothing waste in the community drove the launch of Beleaf. The COVID-19 pandemic has also presented unprecedented obstacles for Cinthya’s company.