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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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The Four Tenets of Conscious Capitalism

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Example: In 2009, Southwest Airlines decided to go against industry standards that were shifting toward fees for checked luggage. The caring culture he developed also points to his genuine concern for stakeholders. Caring culture. Conscious culture can be a tremendous positive force to foster human development and wellbeing.

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This Week in the New York Innovation Community – February 1st, 2010

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RSVP: [link] 5PM NY Tech Meetup Student Mingle The NYTM Student Group's mission is to encourage the involvement of students and student leaders in the New York City tech community and thereby better educate and prepare tomorrow's entrepreneurs. Come laugh and learn as we dissect the twelve worst social media campaigns of 2009.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. Maker Studios?—?sold

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Thinking About Berlin: Unleashing a Creative Opportunity

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You're not going to replicate the Valley, but you could certainly look to a place that went from essentially zero to the second most proflific startup communities in 15 years (or 8 years, depending on if you count the fact that we came back from zero again dating back to '04). The fear is that its getting easier and faster to go global.

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Employee engagement platform Culture Amp raises $100M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Culture Amp was founded in 2009 to let companies conduct anonymous employee surveys, but since then, its focus has expanded to helping employers turn the data they collect into action. The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5 The round bumps Culture Amp’s valuation to $1.5

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