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Book: Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide

Feld Thoughts

Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup community builder or are interested in startup communities. The post Book: Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide appeared first on Brad Feld.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

Additionally, the tech startup community has grown so quickly that Utah has a new nickname: The Silicon Slopes. With its moderate climate and the renowned Research Triangle of Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham, it is not surprising that North Carolina is one of the fastest growing states in the country. North Carolina.

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Small Business – 4 Reasons You’re Too Small to Fail

Mike Michalowicz

?. Mural by Luke Buchanan, Raleigh, North Carolina. When customers utilize the services of a small business, they’re giving back to the local community when the business pays their taxes, including local property tax. Small businesses are customer oriented and have a unique understanding of the needs of their customers and community.

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Weekend Reading on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

So this weekend was about startup communities with a bonus book on the startup visa tossed in for good measure. I don’t like the title – it’s too intentionally provocative for my tastes because I’m not anti-Silicon Valley but rather pro-building startup communities everywhere – but the book is excellent.

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Austin’s secret sauce… it’s the WHY

Austin Startup

As a result, he thought that many people in Silicon Valley aren’t as invested in the community or focused on making it better for their children and their neighbors. A great job is the start, but also a great home, a great neighborhood, a great community they feel a part of. How different that is than the feeling in Austin right now!

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The National Day of Civic Hacking

Feld Thoughts

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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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When I released this information into the community my life became in danger. The company has also grown from one Atlanta-based office to four offices in Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, and Detroit. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Then my former spouse got custody of my children and my children were concealed from me.