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Innovation and Venture Capital in New Jersey

Feld Thoughts

If you are a fan of Startup Communities , there’s a lot going on around new initiatives on this front. Ian Hathaway and I are hard at work on a book called The Startup Community Way, which is modeled after Eric Ries’ evolution of The Lean Startup to his recent book The Startup Way.

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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

Having never lived in New York, he very much looks forward to working and playing in the city. Jason is a high-school student, currently attending the Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey. Jason Frankel.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

14:06) Jen gives a New Jersey local government example of how the USDR works and how the organization is working at "The speed of need." (16:54) 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) 42:29) Where we go from here by coming together and new appreciation for government. (44:12)

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I can now give back to my community in ways that would not have been possible earlier. That's one of my motivations in pursuing my family real estate business in New Jersey. 14- To solve issues in the beauty community. The plan was to solve those issues not only for us but for others in the beauty community.

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Workplace Diversity Versus Workplace Discrimination: Understanding The Difference

YoungUpstarts

On the other hand, as New Jersey discrimination lawyer Ravi Sattiraju notes, when a culture of discrimination in the workplace is tolerated, even encouraged, it results in a toxic environment which then becomes destructive. By definition and practice, it destroys communities and corporate organizations.

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The Intersect Fund – Small (Business) Is The New Big

YoungUpstarts

When Rohan Mathew and Joe Shure were editors at The Daily Targum — Rutgers University ’s student-run newspaper — they were privy to two totally different sides of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.

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Why Your Startup May Need a Dry Van Vehicle

The Startup Magazine

Foster McGowen Voorhees, the 30th governor of New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century, and the man for whom Voorhees, New Jersey is named, probably never even imagined just how populated this area of New Jersey would eventually become.