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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” On the other had, I wouldn’t be surprised if Miami winds up with a fantastic community feel and vibe but struggles to produce big companies. It takes work.

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. I grew up in a small town in north Iowa—Cedar Falls, to be exact. Population, though 97% of U.S.

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What went wrong at Techstars

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Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing.

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10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Inspired Me—and Will Inspire You!

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I first met Merry Riana when we were both being nominated for the The Great Women of Our Our Time award sponsored by Singapore Women’s Weekly 2010. That’s why she started Startup Asia Women, a community of women involved in startups in Asia. Merry Riana: Millionaire Entrepreneur, Best-Selling Author and Motivational Speaker.

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NJEDA Approves NJ Innovation Evergreen Fund Investment in Women-Led Clothing Distributor

American Entrepreneurship

Founded in 2010, Bullpen Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has a rich history of founding and investing in some of the industry’s most prominent technology companies such as FanDuel , Carbon Health , and Paper.

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NJEDA Approves NJ Innovation Evergreen Fund Investment in Women-Led Tech Platform

American Entrepreneurship

Founded in 2010, Bullpen Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has a rich history of founding and investing in some of the industry’s most prominent technology companies such as FanDuel, Carbon Health, and Paper.

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Does what happens at YC stay at YC?

TechCrunch

Community has never felt louder in startupland. Bringing people together over a shared interest is innate to human nature, and coming out of a lonely, draining pandemic, every startup is looking to cultivate community, conversation and camaraderie. Privacy first. It’s more than a polite request.