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By Steve Huff 5/09/12 4:08pm Share this: New Tech City (Center for an Urban Future) The Center for an Urban Future, a think tank headed by Jonathan Bowles, has released a lengthy report about New York City’s tech sector, titled “New Tech City.” The Center’s findings indicate amazing growth over the last decade. First, the good news! New York is home to the fastest growing tech sector in the United states and has beaten Boston to become second only to Silicon Valley. Time for some real talk. “Many are competing in the same space,” Mr. “All of that said,” wrote Mr. Follow Steve Huff via RSS. shuff@observer.com. "A few crazy guys like us can pull it off": Simon Schaefer on new Berlin tech hub The Factory.
Berlin’s planned startup campus The Factory brought a surge of excitement when news first broke in April and momentum isn’t letting up.
Construction is still at ”detailed planning stage” but the full list of tenants is almost ready to announce, led by first signer SoundCloud, and some have already moved in. The official opening is scheduled for early next year. While there are some similarities to existing tech hubs, such as Google Campus in east London, angel investor and entrepreneur Simon Schaefer – one of the key people behind the project – says there’s no real model for what they’re trying to do.
(143) Startup Failure: Why do startups fail. A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail. Start The adventure of new ventures.
Evgenia EliseevaHarvard’s Noam Wasserman. Noam Wasserman, a Harvard Business School professor, wants you to survive. For more than a decade, he has been hunting for reasons that explain why start-ups and their founders self-destruct. He has surveyed nearly 10,000 founders from 3,500 ventures, compiling his results in a huge database that he has mined for patterns. Some of the companies, which all come from the life science and high-tech industries, were venture-backed; others hadn’t yet left the geeks-in-a-garage stage. This spring, he delivered his findings in a new book, “The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup” (Princeton University Press, 2012). In a recent interview, we asked him about the common catastrophes that doom young ventures. Most business books are built on grand platitudes and decorated with anecdotes.
Why Startups Fail. Why US Startups Like Etsy Prefer Berlin Over London. For American startups who have grown to the point where they want to expand into Europe, there is an obvious path to follow – fly across the ‘pond’ and end up in London, an Engish-speaking world city with a well-established entrepreneurial culture.
But, as a senior figure at Brooklyn-based Etsy revealed, US startups are increasingly finding their way to Berlin. Matt Stinchcomb is the European director at Etsy, an online marketplace for vintage and handmade crafts. He told Silicon Allee that Berlin is the place to be for American companies looking to make a name for themselves in the European market. “We didn’t pick Berlin because we thought it was the European startup capital, we picked Berlin because culturally we thought it was the right fit for Etsy,” Matt said. “The attitude and creativity of the city reminds me of Brooklyn, and combined with the low rent prices, we thought it would be the ideal location to set up Etsy in Europe.”
10 lessons from a failed startup. A year and a half ago, my co-founder Dev Nag and I started an internet TV network for games called PlayCafe.
Our ambitious plan was to run highly interactive game shows in which everyone was a contestant. Players could watch our hosts, answer questions, win prizes, form teams, call our studio, live chat, and run their own games. It was a huge undertaking, but despite great engagement — users watched for 87 minutes per session and 40 percent returned within a week — we didn’t reach enough users. We may revive it in the future, but for now, we’ve placed the site in hibernation and returned remaining funds to our investors.
What follows is a post-mortem of what we did right and wrong and how we will improve next time. 1. 25 Internet Startups That Bombed Miserably. If the Internet could speak with one voice, it would probably groan “oh, not again!”
That’s because every raving success story about Internet startups is tempered by dozens more that crashed and burned in a sea of wasted money, bad ideas, or unfulfilled hype. As venture capitalist Paul Graham writes, most of these failures are never written about. No one knew about them, so they were never really expected to go anywhere. Top Inspirational Quotes From Entrepreneurs. 99 Famous Inspirational & Motivational Quotes On Entrepreneurship.
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