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Re:Head of StartUp NY leaving as jobs report is two months late by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:18PM (#11817318)
Seems strange to put a corporate real estate specialist with experience at massive companies in charge of startups. 2 very different skillsets.
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Re:Head of StartUp NY leaving as jobs report is two months late by fapjacks on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:29PM (#11817415)
Yeah, totally. But that's not what governors think about when they make appointments like that.
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Re:Head of StartUp NY leaving as jobs report is two months late by chimeracoder on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:38PM (#11817474)
> Yeah, totally. But that's not what governors think about when they make appointments like that.

No doubt Cuomo was focused 100% on how this would affect his 2016 and/or 2020 presidential run, not how it would affect the state of New York.

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Re:Head of StartUp NY leaving as jobs report is two months late by mathattack on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:33PM (#11817906)
She could have just as easily been a big donor. Just an appointment that seemed destined to either benign neglect or failure.
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Re:Head of StartUp NY leaving as jobs report is two months late by builtinbuffalo on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:30AM (#11841453)
Not when you factor in that this program revolves around the startups using state owned and run real estate facilities. To be eligible for the program, you must locate your company on a designated "campus." So, you get incentives...but the state gets new tenants and fat profits, since most of the spaces offered to house a startup are recently renovated warehouses and empty university space.
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Re:Head of StartUp NY leaving as jobs report is two months late by morgante on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:55AM (#11821002)
Considering that StartupNY is overly fixated on real estate (one of its primary requirements is that the company locate on university property), the skillsets have more overlap than you might imagine.

Of course, this fixation on real estate and exogenous goals is probably a big contributor to the failure of StartupNY to produce meaningful jobs in sufficient quantities.

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