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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

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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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community.

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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. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. Co-Working Space.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

Both Sides of the Table

Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose. He told me about how he grew up in the projects in NYC with a single mom and even though he had done extraordinary well in school and thus had a great education – those were still his roots.

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Investing In Distressed Communities. Opportunity Zones

Smart Hustle Magazine

Their conversation definitely has to do with small business success and entrepreneurial support, but the journey is a little different than our normal conversations. Basically, this is the government's response to helping disadvantaged communities, but Scott helps explain to us why we should care and why it's important.