When you first walk into an incubator space or a new startup office, something immediately feels familiar. There are whiteboards scribbled with ideas and silly jokes covering every wall. Groups of people – many of them quite young – are clustered around large tables, either arguing animatedly about the finer…
People love lists. Lists are easy to digest and lists are fun. So, I’ve taken my love for alliteration and your love of lists to create “Holly’s Hot List” so you can keep up on all the sexiest tech trends and tools, at least in my opinion… whatever that’s worth. I’ll start you off on the hottest tech hubs…
New York City is a fascinating and wonderful city for entrepreneurs. Big brands are interspersed with innovative startups, there is a lot of capital for supporting nascent businesses and Mayor Bloomberg has enacted founder-friendly policies to support innovation. NYC is full of hardworking people with diverse backgrounds and skills, and it’s the city that, like an entrepreneur, never sleeps.
Strawberry daiquiris, sandy beaches, sunset from a cruise ship balcony. For a change, I’m not daydreaming about either a past or an imminent vacation. Instead, I’m trying to picture the setting for some of the newer alternative startup accelerators. Accelerators that participants pay to attend. These hybrids of business incubator and mainland escape are starting to ring more phones–those of both venture capitalists and travel agents.
Driving through upstate New York can sometimes feel post-apocalyptic. When factories started closing across the state, formerly bustling towns turn into jobless wastelands. People who could afford to move away did so and those who stayed had to watch their hometowns slowly fall into disrepair.
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