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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations.

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. Cotorruelo said in an interview, referring to the the courses, but also the company’s community of users.

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Talk to Your Heroes: How I Built a Virtual Board That Enhances My Decision-Making

Paul G. Silva

The members of the group are free to agree or disagree with each other and should reference the points of view of the other members when formulating their responses. Message me and share how it’s working for you and any creative variations you’ve developed. When I want the group to debate, I will type DEBATE.

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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

Both Sides of the Table

The reference to Andy Dunn and me is responding to this post I wrote (in response to Andy’s earlier post). Yet no matter what side of the table you sit on within the technology community you are going to be faced with very similar situations that test your moral compass. But this one is for Dorrian. And his Tesla Statue project.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Blog to your community. The results have been both unexpected and astounding.

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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

Both Sides of the Table

Troy represents what I believe the best magic of Los Angeles is – the merging together of creative talent with technical talent and he brings the lessons learned from these two fields into investments nationally. But can you really cross over from spotting music talent to spotting tech talent? And he said it so elequently.