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The Magic Number for VC Investment in New York Tech? Zipcode 10016
Gilt Groupe founders Alexis and Alexandra Surprise! The most lucrative neighborhood for getting venture capital deals done is not the tech corridor from DogPatch Labs to the top of Madison Square Park...
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Google’s Chelsea Building Inspires Condos, 38-Foot Flower Pot
Google New York. When Google first moved to 111 Eighth Ave. in Chelsea, developers expected to see the neighborhood turn into another Silicon Alley, with office tenants providing ancillary services to...
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Inside Accel Partners’ New Office on the 16th Floor of Googleplex East
With the recent news that prolific investment firm Accel Partners finally hired David Eisenberg as their first New York ombudsman, Betabeat figured it was time to survey the scene at the company's NYC...
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Get Your Internet On: Google Is Giving Free Wifi to Southwest Chelsea [UPDATED]
Do a little celebratory dance. Give it up for GOOG, boys and girls: Later this morning, the search behemoth is expected to announce an initiative to blanket southwest Chelsea with free Wifi. That'll...
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Spotify Is Expanding Its New York Presence, Plans to Staff Up to 200 Engineers
CEO Daniel Elk. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Today, Spotify made a big announcement: The company is expanding its local presence, with plans to hire an additional 130 engineers by the end of...
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At This Rate, Someday Chelsea Will Be One Big Google Campus
Google's HQ on Eighth Ave. (Photo: File) Soon, Chelsea is going to be one, big Googleplex. The search behemoth is close to signing a 360,000 square-foot lease at 85 10th Ave for space that wasn't even...
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Hip Hop Hackathon Was Great In Theory, ‘Ridiculously Wack’ In Execution
There it is. (Sage Lazzaro) When Betabeat walked into Code&Beats, the dance party meets hackathon held last night at the Centre for Social Innovation in Chelsea, we saw an event with a lot of...
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