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

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I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. 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. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? What brings you to LA?

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How to engage resource partners: continuing the conversation

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During our March Quarterly Conversation, affiliates discussed the challenges moving from individual entrepreneur support organizations to a collaborative, community-based model. IASourceLink restructured much of their website content into specific, detailed, easy-to-navigate guides, and is working to turn each guide into downloadable PDFs.

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How Founders Can Master Mental Resilience to Stay in the Game Long Enough to Win

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We asked Aaron Houghton of EO Colorado to share how he overcame burnout and developed a unique solution, Dory, to help him master mental resilience, which grew into the world’s largest community dedicated solely to stress reduction for entrepreneurs. It includes things like journaling, reciting mantras, and practicing gratitude.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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-Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Competitors: Gowalla.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. More on that later.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

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That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. This is where she first developed sales skills. “There are so many places you can go on the Net where you can find your community.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

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As a person who spends much time thinking about the venture capital & startup community and who has seen good times & bad times across many economic cycles the article is well written. Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped. And headlines. And approbation. million and then $5.9

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