New York's Present and Future as a Place to Foster Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A nextNY Community Conversation
New York City is certainly a major hub for startup companies, but can it get better?
February 28th, 2007 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Location: \"CRESA Partners
100 Park Avenue, Floor 24 (entrance on 41st Street)
NY, NY 10017\"
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What is a Community Conversation?
Think of it as an "un-panel" (or salon... whatever works for you) . We have "conversation leaders" but there are no tiers. Everyone is part of the audience and everyone can participate. We put 6-8 leaders into the crowd and lean on them to contribute the guiding thoughts behind our conversation, but we rely on much audience participation, questions, etc. to move things along.
Outline/Questions
New York City is certainly a major hub for startup companies, but can it get better? How?
Check out these related posts:
http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/02/28/nextnys-nychub-event/
http://blog.nextny.org/blog/2007/1/28/appleseeds-and-nyc-startup-culture.html
http://innonate.com/2007/02/08/cafebricolage-the-nyc-solution-is-a-hot-plate/
http://www.jcurvechronicles.com/blog/2007/02/01/can-a-startup-friendly-culture-be-created-in-nyc/
building online community in the real world
http://www.venturevoice.com/2006/05/startup_geography_new_york_vs_1.html
Here are some general questions and topics we'd love to see covered:
What are NYC's strengths as a technology and startup hub?
What are it's weaknesses? Which of these weaknesses can be improved?
Comment on:
Costs
Talent pool
Lifestyle
Availability of capital
Knowledge resources
Professional services
Creativity
Entreprenuers
Conversation Leaders
Jerry Colonna, Former Editor, Investor, Consultant
Saul Shapiro, Vice President Client Services: Information, Technology and Sustainability Sectors New York City Economic Development Corp.
Franklin Madison, Technology Program Director at ITAC
Dennis Crowley, Dodgeball (Google)
Alejandro Crawford, Nolej
Darren Herman
Attendees
- Charlie O'Donnell
- T.J. Duane
- Ken Rossi
- Shreyas Pandit
- Jonah Keegan
- Jason Olim
- Frank Bradshaw
- Ed Costello
- Lee Semel
- David Rosenstrauch
- Josh Guttman
- Ben Stein
- David Chen
- Chris McAleenan
- Nate Westheimer
- Dan Putt
- Corey Henderson
- David Evans
- Hiren Patel
- Matthew Myers
- Jeffrey Arnold
- Scott Cherkin
- Jason White
- Vinicius Vacanti
- Thomas Maloney
- Avinash Karnani
- Noel Hidalgo
- Michael Galpert
- Howard Greenstein
- Christian Busch
- Niraj Shah
- Eric Popivker
- Eric Yoon
- Kristian Hansen
- Naveen Selvadurai
- Perry Lin
- Tim Marman
- Rajiv Kukreja
- Par Gandhi
- Doug Krugman
- Mark Rothbaum
- Aleks Jakulin
- Henning Seip
- Greg Galant
- Naveed Hasan
- Jonathan Wegener
- BillSeitz
- Ken Berger
- Lisa Prosser
- Ralph Warren
- Abhay Kumar
- Rachel Clarke
- Tracy Sheridan
- Ilia Malkovitch
- Anthony Casalena
- Gregg Donovan
- Michael Salmon
- Ryan O'Donnell
- Carl Jaramello
- Alexis Geaneotes
- Amanda Kelso
- Shehzad Daredia
- Kelvin Tsang
- Michael Katz
- Jimmy Wan
- Perry Chui
- Danny Wen
- Keith Hopkin:http://www.ArtworkNotAvailable.com
- Mark Lewis
- Philip James - just in under the wire
- Abhishek Sud
- Amnon Meiri
- Brett P.
- Mica Scalin
- Brian Litvack
- Rachel Sterne
- David Cohn
- Steve Rosenbaum
- Emeri Yarnoff
- Morgan Friedman
- Kenneth Musante
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