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		<title>Citi Bike: Bike-Sharing for New York City!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this morning, Mayor Bloomberg just announced the launch of Citi Bike, New York City&#8217;s new bike share program that will begin this summer! The program will deploy 10,000 bikes across Manhattan and Brooklyn starting in July and will be managed by Alta Bicycle Share. The New York City Investment Fund is supporting this initiative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2012/05/citi-bike-bike-sharing-for-new-york-city/</link>
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		<title>Launching FinTech Innovation Lab 2012!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the New York City Investment Fund launched its 2012 FinTech Innovation Lab with its partner Accenture. The companies are all moved in to the Lab&#8217;s incubator space now, and Deputy Mayor Bob Steel welcomed the six companies last night at an opening dinner. Unfortunately, all of the work for me in managing the program&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2012/05/launching-fintech-innovation-lab-2012/</link>
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		<title>Crowdfunding and Accredited Investor Restrictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have probably heard of the JOBS Act of 2012 or about &#8220;crowdfunding legislation&#8221; that was in the works for awhile now and was just signed into law earlier this month. One of the main provisions of the bill is the &#8220;crowdfunding&#8221; provision, which essentially enables regular Joes to invest in private companies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2012/04/crowdfunding-and-accredited-investor-restrictions/</link>
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		<title>Instagram and the 500 Quadrillion % IRR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, with the crazy amount of coverage since Instagram announced it was being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, even people with the very barest amount of interest in the startup / venture world have asked what the big hubbub is about. If the $1 billion price tag were not enough, the media also revealed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2012/04/instagram-and-the-500-quadrillion-irr/</link>
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		<title>Exit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I mentioned last week that I&#8217;d be giving a bit of insight into the day-to-day happenings in the life of a young VC, or as my business card would say &#8220;Associate.&#8221; Now, making an investment is pretty exciting, right? You&#8217;re putting money into a company, hoping that all of your analysis (whether in your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2012/04/exit-txvia-google/</link>
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		<title>Young Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, no&#8230; actually this post is not going to be about the state of hip hop or the record label founded by a certain rapper. Rather, I just wanted to write briefly about how it seems like the most prolific posters in the venture world seem to be partners and the like and that there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2012/03/young-money/</link>
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		<title>Starting Up in New York</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, the New York Times published a very cool graphic mapping the 400+ startups in NYC that have raised money from investors in the last two years. Many of these companies are ones that my firm has invested in, and given the firm&#8217;s mission to strengthen and diversify the city&#8217;s economy, I&#8217;m excited to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2011/11/starting-up-in-new-york/</link>
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		<title>PIPA and SOPA. What&#8217;s the Big Deal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more details, read the posts by Bijan Sabet and Fred Wilson or watch this video on Vimeo. Take 30 seconds and click here to write your congressman.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2011/11/pipa-and-sopa-whats-the-big-deal/</link>
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		<title>Moving On, For Real!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike a post made on this blog on April 1 of last year, this post actually does confirm I have indeed moved on from investment banking to pursue new opportunities. Specifically, I decided earlier this year to join a venture capital firm here in New York City and just had my first day on the job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2011/08/moving-on-for-real/</link>
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		<title>Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just earlier this morning, a friend of mine Gchatted me with a question: Did I know of any developers that could help him with a start-up idea of his? I told him most of the folks I knew were either working full-time on their own start-ups or already involved in multiple side projects, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socentvc.com/2011/05/whartonite-seeks-code-monkey/</link>
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