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August 24 - December 20, 2013
Brian Cohen,
“If you make money and you have more than you need, you have to figure out a way to improve the world. It’s actually your job. It’s your responsibility,”
Everyone today wants to be an angel because it is cool.
there is also the idea of doing good, to have the satisfaction of helping
The pleasure of giving back: an important part of...
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Charles Francis Feeney,
It is thanks to him and to his contribution of $350 million that the new campus of Cornell NYC Tech is going to be built in the city of New York. This is the new Institute of higher learning (postgraduate) resulting from the joint venture between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology: its goal is to of promote innovation and create high-tech entrepreneurship, jobs and economic growth in the city.[25]
Pass is the Chief Entrepreneurial Officer of Cornell NYC Tech:
“Cornell NYC Tech is one of the best things Mayor Bloomberg has done. It will have a huge long-term impact,”
New York is not focused enough on technology education
Stanford, which played a key role in the development of Silicon Valley.
70% of its graduates in applied sciences—from core engineering disciplines to industrial management—work in the high-tech sector;
closely linked to the business world and to the Jewish community of the Big Apple.
students must complete “a substantial project co-supervised by a faculty member and an industry mentor, with a written report rather than a formal research thesis.”
“You’re sourced with an industry advisor who’s literally invested in your success and paying attention to your success
Fred Wilson
Flatiron District is still the area with the highest concentration of Internet investors and startups.
General Assembly, the largest “campus” for New York startups.
Chris Dixon, the number one high-tech angel investor in America
Brad Burnham,
anything is possible through software, design, technology and the human spirit.”
“Studying and working side by side is important, because from the interaction among people and the exchange of ideas, even informal, you learn, and other ideas are born,”
“The extraordinary thing is that nerds are cool today, and working at a startup is sexy,”
you can’t build a successful company if you are easily pleased: you have to aim at being the best,”
future of higher education is online; it is the only way to reduce the exploding cost of a college education that is now totally out of control.”
Tom & Jerry, at 288 Elizabeth Street, just a few blocks away from where the now-closed Life Café was located, is in fact “the best bar to rub elbows with a venture capitalist in New York.”[58]
avoiding to turn to outside investors as long as possible.
New York technological community is much stronger, thanks to Google drawing so many engineers here to New York.
Everybody listens to you, even important people agree to meet you,
problems for the founder of a non-American startup is getting a visa to work in the U.S.
Having your technical staff in your native country and your business staff in the U.S. has been a model successfully used by Israeli startups for a number of years.
technology startups to make their stock “liquid” without having to do a public offering—a
Brooklyn at the over 500 startups in the Tech Triangle, defined by its vertices in Dumbo, the MetroTech Center downtown and the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
revolution to bring human beings back to the center of the economy,
NYU-Poly
‘sharing economy’ as part of a broader ‘quiet revolution’ and that can help businesses change the world.”
The diversity of activities in the incubator is important because ideas and businesses grow out of working together.
“Within the next ten years, ten percent of world production will no longer be mass production; instead it will be personalized.”
