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

This is going to be BIG.

With all of this news about Brooklyn 's tech scene , I've been thinking a lot about what made the NYC innovation community grow so quickly. 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.

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Tradeoffs in Innovative Careers

This is going to be BIG.

This is the first of a series of posts this week on careers in innovation and startups--sort of a thought exercise for me on the topic for my talk at General Assembly at 8PM on 12/15. I even started a company around helping people figure out how to get from A to B, because information in this area is so poor.

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

This is going to be BIG.

Just because you put up a structure doesn't mean it's going to sprout a whole innovation ecosystem. 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.

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

Both Sides of the Table

One of the meetings I had (organized by my good friend Jeff Yolen ) was with New Atlantic Ventures held the at the CIC, aka the Cambridge Innovation Center (no prizes for guessing where it’s located). VCs constantly share cross fund information and are therefore always getting dialed into what is going on in the industry.

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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In the book Alien Thinking , three innovation professors at IMD Business School argue that people who generate truly breakthrough ideas look at their world like aliens–outsiders unburdened by the assumptions, biases and conventional thinking that constrain imagination. Two types of breaks can foster innovation.

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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

Register Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (President Kim Won-kyung, hereinafter referred to as “GCCEI”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hive Colab, headquartered in Kampala, Uganda, to innovate the business environment for startups in both countries.

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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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Incubators and coworking spaces offer programing services and are an affordable and efficient alternative to full-scale offices. University entrepreneurship and innovation centers that partner with the community to provide tools, facilities and education to local business owners. Join them on their journey.