Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada : Thanks.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. If I were in Mike’s shoes, I would start by talking to people in the Philadelphia Startup community. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. . -

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. August practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, commercial transactions, general corporate law and business bankruptcy.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

Over 5000 people in 87 locations will be joining up to use their talents to make their communities a better place. The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I grant you, it’s not like Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – but there is a burgeoning tech community much as you’d find in NYC these days. In Washington DC you have government & defense. Communities outside the Valley have matured. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Some of the obvious vertical markets have been around cleantech and bio / life sciences but some of the more subtle ones have been around government services and non-profits. Tags: Entrepreneurial Communities accelerators entrepreneurial communities TechStars.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms. Hey everyone!

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

While they’re experts at running nonprofit organizations, nonprofit board members don’t always understand their communities or the social context of the issues that affect their constituencies. The issue of nonprofit diversity presents an opportunity for nonprofit board members to become more greatly connected to their communities.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Ian Hathaway, my co-author for my next book – Startup Communities 2: The Next Generation – has a great blog post up titled The Amazon Bounce Back. million rebated back to the Seattle-based retail giant over several years and could top $860 million if the company’s HQ2 campus were to grow fast enough.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. billionfor the same lesson, partly because they could then tell themselvesthat they were buying a phenomenon, or a community, or some vaguething like that. 10 ]Yes, actually: dealing with the government. Afterthat theres not much.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   This shielding of communication must not be allowed, particularly in the finance function.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. From there, the tour goes through Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, New York, Boston, Chicago, DC, and culminates back in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club on September 27. Thank you for your continued support.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2020

Readers of this blog and my book Startup Communities know that I’m a huge fan of AnnaLee Saxenian. It has a politics—this Vietnam-era rejection of the military-industrial complex, rejection of the mainframe, Big Business, Big Government, big universities.” She has a great quote in The Atlantic article.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

He wrote a big essay to the government and demanded all the people locally stopped killing the bird or capturing it for pets or for food. It was kind of my sneaky advantage of the last couple of years for my show and my speaking is actually I just aerate these ideas and these stories with a real community. Jay Acunzo: Oh, yeah.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Similar effects are seen in Seattle and surrounding neighborhoods, home to Amazon’s main HQ and Microsoft. Another mayor or governor should swoop in, cut a new deal, and start selling the benefits of a potential 5-10x investment could have on their community. 4/ Politicians need to become dealmakers for their constituents.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

startup hubs, based on the city’s “clear emphasis on next generation tech companies specializing in education, energy and healthcare industries; high quality of life ratings; and a welcoming regulatory environment for startup communities.” Tech London: Your Guide to the Startup Community, Events, and Jobs in London.

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2017

Several other folks said they were deactivated after pointing out one too many times that RideAustin’s previous “fully transparent” sharing of ridership data, with both its drivers and the local tech community, has effectively vanished over the past few weeks. But that’s another story.)

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Meredith Hitchcock , co-founder and COO of RideAlong The judging panel recognized the immense benefit this provides to a community, as many officers respond to calls with minimal information — potentially creating dangerous consequences for citizens. pdfs sent to the entire force.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The City of Austin operates as a council-manager form of government, where City Council sets the policy and budget and the City Manager implements both. Scott Kubly is the Seattle Department of Transportation director and previously served as deputy director of the Chicago Department of Transportation. Why does the City Manager matter?

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Its streamlined nature makes it more responsive than most governments. So in the early days and weeks of the pandemic, when our own federal government seemed largely paralyzed or in denial about how to respond to the rapid global spread of the disease, the Gates Foundation continued to escalate its investments.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past decade, we’ve helped tens of thousands of diverse clients, including entrepreneurs, small business owners, big Brands, agencies, non-profits, and even governments. The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in Seattle. 16 years later , Starbucks was finally ready to expand outside of Seattle.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

Then there's Seattle, of course. Vancouver has a number of local events and programs that connect and support members of the community, including Vancouver GreenTech Exchange, Vancouver Startup Weekend, Mobile Mondays, and BCIC-New Ventures Competition. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. Refunds can be as high as 65% of the R&D cost. ” Montreal. .”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. Refunds can be as high as 65% of the R&D cost. ” Montreal. .”

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We asked public governance and nonprofit leaders to share their expertise around cybersecurity. What leaders told us about cybersecurity We surveyed board secretaries, executive directors, superintendents and assistant superintendents, city managers and others from the fields of education, local government and healthcare.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This is not a government that’s run in Washington and does its own thing like Beijing does, or Moscow does in their country. This is a government of the people, by the people for the people. Maybe what you want to do is really emphasize education in your local community. Put everything in your budget into it.

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