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The Disrupters: Forces Driving Change in 2011
Entrepreneur Magazine December, 2010 - Sustainable profitability is the catchphrase these days, says Micah Kotch, director of operations of New York City Accelerator for a Clean and Renewable Economy. Since launching in July 2009, NYC ACRE has signed on 10 companies that have raised $8 million and created 60 new jobs, and a few of them are already generating revenue. "The climate piece is secondary," he says. "The bottom line drives business decisions, and the recent rise of green business accelerators illustrates this phenomenon." |
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Modlet Smart Outlet Kills Vampires, Controls And Measures Energy Use
Treehugger.com November 23, 2010 - A few years ago everyone was talking about vampire power; since then it has fallen off the table as people realized that really, there are bigger issues. So why would anyone shell out forty bucks each for the Modlet, a smart outlet that turns off power to your appliances and equipment? Because there is a lot more to it than just phantom loads. It is about knowing where your power is going. |
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Wind-Power Experiment Planned on Brooklyn Plot
New York Times November 20, 2010 - About two years ago, Debra Salomon was on her way to the new Fairway market in Red Hook, Brooklyn, when she took a wrong turn and found herself on a windblown pier that had two 90-foot Eiffel-like towers rising into the sky for no apparent purpose. |
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City's first biz incubator hatches first chicks
Crains New York July 15, 2010 - Five startups are set to gradute from Varick Street center and move on to the real world. Another 30 or so launches are bustling away as the city's earliest experiment in entrepreneurial development celebrates its first anniversary. |
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Young Guns: Small Wind Startup, Wide Open Market
Fox Small Business Center March 31, 2010 - When Russell Tencer looks down the boardwalk in his hometown of Long Beach, New York, he envisions not a day lounging by the surf, but rows of efficient and aesthetically-pleasing wind turbines. |
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Startup climate change: Need for jobs, revenue sparks moves to back new sectors February 21, 2010 - Frank Shinneman would love to keep his bioplastics startup in the city. SyntheZyme's team has plenty of room at their Brooklyn lab to ferment materials like soybean oil and yeast into a chemical used to create plastic in tabletop flasks. |
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NYC's first small business incubator
Marketplace Public Radio February 5, 2010 - Some New York City entrepreneurs have turned the recession into a moment of opportunity, creating the Big Apple's first small business incubator. |
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First Round Capital Takes A Tour Of NYC's Start-Up Scene
Wall Street Journal Blog January 5, 2010 - As the West Conshohocken, Pa.-based early-stage firm prepares to open an office in the Big Apple, the investors thought it would be a good idea to go knocking on the doors of the city's incubators and shared work spaces. |
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A Cheap Nest for Fledgling Firms New York Times November 10, 2009 - When Lindsay Napor expanded her Manhattan-based development company earlier this year moving out of free work space provided by an investor she turned to the most logical place for the company's new offices: New Jersey. |
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BuildGreen Philly: Prosperity with Sustainability
October 16, 2009 - Micah Kotch, from the New York City Accelerator for a Clean & Renewable Economy, an incubator initiative of NYU-Poly aimed at stimulating invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in New York. |
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New York helps tomorrow's employers
BBC October 12, 2009- Even on a grey Monday morning, the offices at 160 Varick Street, in the heart of Manhattan, are abuzz with creativity, energy and entrepreneurial spirit. |
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Climate Week NYC
September 20 - 26: Climate Week NYC is a series of high-level meetings, panel discussions, cultural events and public engagements to address and underscore the urgency for action on climate change. Taking place just seventy days before UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) and coinciding with the US Senate process, |
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Laid-off Wall Streeters find entrepreneurial spirit
Christian Science Monitor July 23, 2009 - With thousands of Wall Street go-getters out of work, New York has a plan: Make it easier for them to channel their inner entrepreneur. |