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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.” Great startup community folks need to be a bridge between those who have a lot to offer in terms of real, vetted experience and those who are new and aspirational.

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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community

Revolution

GM, Ford, and Chrysler benefitted from the broader network around them as much as members of the network benefitted from being proximate to the nation’s automobile behemoths. Where will they be able to tap into a supportive entrepreneurial network? And the city of Detroit benefited from being home to a major industry cluster.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. The first to spot the weakness were startup founders.

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Can You Afford a Marketing Team?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For high-achieving startup founders and entrepreneurs, marketing might feel like a no-brainer to tackle on your own. It isn’t 2010. Unfortunately, it costs to build a network of such valuable links. Plus, today’s online marketing platforms make it easy to post, track and engage. Not so fast.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

During the early recovery, however, VC-backed M&A rebounded and skyrocketed: Annual deal values eclipsed $30 billion in 2010, holding steady before ballooning above $70 billion in 2014. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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How to Launch Your Startup Without Eating Ramen

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Those myths are: (1) Don’t share your idea; (2) Good ideas must be bulletproof; (3) Startups require your total commitment; (4) Live on a shoestring; and, (5) Stick to what you know. 1) Don’t hoard your idea, share it freely The 2010 drama, the Social Network , depicted every entrepreneur’s worst fears. Let’s dive in. (1)

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