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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Startup identity & the sadness of a successful exit

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

.” Almost all startup founders experience a deep and prolonged sadness after selling their company , even when the sale is an outrageous success. The answer is important and fundamental for all startup founders, whether or not they ever intend to sell their company. A startup is the founder’s personal identity.

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How Kip Lewis of Austin, Texas Found Success After Failure

The Startup Magazine

Austin, Texas, USA downtown skyline. Since that time, Kip Lewis has repeated the process with more than 2,000 other RV and mobile home parks in and around Austin, Texas. Kip Lewis was one of the first business owners in the Austin metropolitan area to make this move. The One Business Failure That Kip Lewis Cannot Forget.

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There’s already a lot of great advice about hiring at little startups. ” Why startups should ALWAYS compromise when hiring by Dharmesh Shah — There are many attributes you’d like to see in a hire, but compromise is necessary; here’s how to do it. .” Or therapy. Write a crazy job description.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Pitchbook estimates that there is about $290 billion of VC “overhang” (money waiting to be deployed into tech startups) in the US alone and that’s up more than 4x in just the past decade.

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7 Tips For Expediting The Scaling Of Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market. Apple did it with a pop-up store in Austin to sell the new iPad to 20,000 technologists near the South-by-Southwest music festival. Of course, the concept of force multiplication goes far beyond your startup networks.