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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.” Today, we would add places like Miami and Salt Lake City to that age old debate. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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

Source Link

Through our work with affiliates that include IASourceLink , SourceLink Nebraska , NetWork Kansas , MOSourceLink , Launch Network and more, we’ve learned first-hand the struggles rural business owners in America experience and how building a network of entrepreneurial support can solve for those challenges. Pam Bishop, SMIF.

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How Do VCs Choose Their Investors (and should entrepreneurs care?)

Both Sides of the Table

She has formerly worked at a VC fund (DFJ) and worked closely with the partners and the network at DFJ and knew what it was like to build, manage and evolve a VC partnership. So I immediately felt like I had a partner whom I could call for sensitive advice on topics where there aren’t many sources of input or mentorship.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

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. Her platform has given many women in tech access to support, resources, networks and shared experiences. Since then, we have become good friends. You go girl!

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

American Entrepreneurship

These commitments, which include networking, mentoring, and educational opportunities, are a scored component of the tax credit purchasers’ bids. Bullpen Management also has a history of providing support and mentorship to assist their portfolio companies in crossing over to mainstream consensus.

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

American Entrepreneurship

These commitments, which include networking, mentoring, and educational opportunities, are a scored component of the tax credit purchasers’ bids. Bullpen Management also has a history of providing support and mentorship to assist their portfolio companies in crossing over to mainstream consensus.