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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Who else but an extreme optimist and entrepreneur could have imagined and then publicly spoken about “The Hyperloop” – a system of transport that envisages transporting people from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes. Startup Lessons' Of course the naysayers are out again. I’d love even 0.5%

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. Startup founders always need help. New Yorkers help each other out.

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It Depends: Why the right fundraising strategy for your startup is never a straight answer.

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Imagine telling everyone from bike commuters to people who work from home to “Move next to public transportation”. It wouldn’t make any sense—and figuring out what kind of advice makes sense for your startup requires a lot of listening to what VCs are saying about your company, not necessarily all startups in general.

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Maniv ‘s third Venture Fund focuses on Decarbonization and Digitalization of Transportation

American Entrepreneurship

Venture capital firm made an early commitment to mobility, transportation and energy Global venture capital firm Maniv, based in Tel Aviv and NYC, is advancing solutions to climate change via its recently announced early-stage venture fund of $140 million.

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Bill DeBlasio's Uber targeting is in danger of making NYC a tech joke

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Uber employs 3000 people, more than most startups in NYC do, and is only six years old. Has Car2Go, in my opinion one of the best things to happen to outer borough transportation, undergone the same governmental scrutiny for taking up 400 Brooklyn parking spaces (or half spaces, since they're little Smart cars)? Same with Airbnb.

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Shift4Good raises $4.35M from transport firm ComfortDelGro

AsiaTechDaily

million from GSX-listed transportation firm ComfortDelGro Corporation. In all, Shift4Good hopes to raise 300 million Euros for this venture fund as the company eyes to deploy into early-stage startups that are decarbonising the transportation industry in Europe and Southeast Asia.