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Lessons for Brooklyn: Information Spillover at the Roots of NYC Tech

This is going to be BIG.

Talk of buildings and incubators reminded me of the story of Building 20 from "Where Good Ideas Come From". ".Legendary is a space that sees information spillover as a feature, not a flaw. Information spillover. One of the key features of the building was its ability to allow ideas bounce around inside of it. ".Building

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

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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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

Both Sides of the Table

VCs constantly share cross fund information and are therefore always getting dialed into what is going on in the industry. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar.

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

This is going to be BIG.

They don't have a stake in it--and by not actively putting themselves out there as a source of capital, they're not in the information flow. The currency that VCs deal in that's just as important as any other is information. They carry with them information about patterns of success, pitfalls, best practices and trends to look for.

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Blockchain startup Fetch.ai grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information

TechCrunch

The funding is a substantial amount in the current market, and it is coming from a single company, DWF Labs , an incubator that is connected to an entity called Digital Wave Finance. grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

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Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation Signs an MOU with “Hive Colab,” a Ugandan Business Incubation Organization, for the Development of Startup Clusters

AsiaTechDaily

Based on this agreement, the two organizations plan to establish a cooperative relationship and provide each country’s business acceleration and incubation programs to revitalize startup businesses in both countries.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

He has strong opinions that are well informed. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. Brad does this kind of thing for people. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. Sounds obvious. I’m one of them.

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