Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

It was a simple and extremely powerful idea, and SMW now encompasses an active worldwide developer community. Stephane Corlosquet – Massachusetts General Hospital. We designed a search application using the Dublin Core, FOAF (Friend- of-a-Friend), and SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) vocabularies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Marty Zwilling.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. Recently, Disney was seen scoping out space in Kendall Square to set up a research lab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. The good news is that both of these are looking up these days. No surprises here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

There are over 60,000 designers working in Massachusetts alone — the state is well past the national average when it comes to professional designers. In lieu of a physical space we’d launch a website that would link the design community and our audience with our network of exhibitions and events across the city.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And it is one of the reasons that NYC is developing a vibrant technology community. I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. In Massachusetts companies (and VCs) have migrated from out by Waltham to Back Bay (Boston) or Cambridge.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. The good news is that both of these are looking up these days. No surprises here.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. Perhaps Boston CEOs, CFOs and boards feel more pressure to go public sooner and/or are comfortable with the IPO process because they community has done it so many times.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. I have found it pretty amazing that so few people in the tech community know their story or understand the scale and scope of what they have achieved.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

I am pretty sure that the pipeline in your community will be of a significantly higher quality within six months. First, Vikrant Mathur from Menlo Park, California, discussed iFood.tv, a video recipe network where chefs, cook-book authors, etc. During this week's roundtable, we had three startups presenting. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

I offered to help him market his services through 1M/1M, since his target customer base overlaps rather nicely with the 1M/1M community. I've had several conversations over the years on TV show financing, and the basic formula is that you have to get a network to finance your show. And that is what I advised J.J. Photo by yirsh.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

I’m sure you’re familiar with the setup… performative, end-of-program demo days that are meant to somehow wrap the experience up in a bow… gigantic, unfamiliar cohort groups that are somehow meant to feel like close-knit communities… the list goes on and on. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Who you are.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

DemoTunes is proposed to be a LinkedIn of the music industry where a million plus musicians would be uploading music, getting feedback from their community, as well as, and more importantly, from talent scouts and connoisseurs who can help them further their careers. In principle, this sounds great. I love the idea. Discuss.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 18, 2018

Here’s a few disparate reasons why I’m a believer in the trend: Community and Care – People are living longer lives and want to age in place, with community and care brought to them versus the centralized industrial assisted living model. We see the basis for this in Pillow , one of our current investments.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

On September 15, 2016, UMSL Accelerate joined the Global EIR network and began taking applications for its international accelerator program, Gateway Accelerate. Missouri is our fourth state to go live following Massachusetts, Colorado, and Alaska. Louis has a great startup scene and a vibrant business community.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. headquarters, in Massachusetts, to immerse the team in the American market. “At This evolving model is being supported and encouraged by the local Israeli VCs.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2015

Between Techstars, Galvanize, Silicon Flatirons, the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network, and many other accelerators, there will be significant mentorship opportunities. The program in Colorado follows a similar approach with one major difference. We have a broad model for engagement in Boulder for new entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Besides the financial benefits that sharing space provides, coworking offers access to networking and communities that can be invaluable to any new or growing business. No matter which location you choose, you’ll find beautiful offices and vibrant coworking communities. The advantages to coworking are numerous. Canalport Ave.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 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.” Chicago Guide for Startups—Networking in the Windy City.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2010

Barney Frank was crystal clear in his briefing with a group of CEOs that I participated in this afternoon: he is going to make sure that the final Financial Reform bill that gets worked out with the Senate won't mess with the angel or VC communities.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Massachusetts.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 8, 2013

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Yesterday, I analyzed the Massachusetts IPO ecosystem. The chart below is lifted from the Business Insider list, but I also cross-checked with AlwaysOn, Inc’s various lists and input from local members of the entrepreneurial community. Undertone Networks. Today, I look at NY. . Estimated Market Value (mn). TheLadders.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

CIOs of financial services companies were viewed as gods by many in the start-up community, controlling billions of dollars in IT spending and often willing to experiment with young companies and the next, new thing. First, that's where the customers were. Instead, Washington DC has in many ways become the New, New York.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. Sign your client up as a club member in Members Hotel Network. The design shows various MotherTongues words from around the world, together with sayings describing community building and mindful living.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. Sign your client up as a club member in Members Hotel Network. The design shows various MotherTongues words from around the world, together with sayings describing community building and mindful living.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Latinx leaders delved into discussions on representation and how to navigate the tech ecosystem, as well as exploring cultural values, perceptions, and resiliency in the Latinx tech community. In order to get your demographics to understand your idea or product, you have to both relate and localize it in the community.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2019

EforAll’s mission is to accelerate economic development and social impact through inclusive entrepreneurship in emerging communities. They also locate their programs outside, but near, communities that are traditional hubs for entrepreneurship. While there’s been tremendous growth in Colorado, it has been uneven across the state.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

To those in our eco-system who are facing this problem around the globe, I have the following suggestion: Instead of giving $100,000 to one startup, give $1,000 each to 100 startups, and put a larger number of entrepreneurs in your community through 1M/1M. There is a growing display ad network (currently more than 70 sites) using iFood.tv

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VC Adventure

MAY 6, 2020

Launched in 2013 with a mission of partnering with communities to help under-represented individuals successfully start and grow their businesses, EforAll is a pretty special organization. EforAll combines immersive business training, mentorship and an extensive support network to help support their entrepreneurs.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. On the education side, HAI focuses on both educating our students as well as the community and the ecosystem.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. On the education side, HAI focuses on both educating our students as well as the community and the ecosystem.

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