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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. Chris became an extensive thought partner with Ian, and we eventually decided to write two books.

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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. The Texas Enterprise Fund also helps startups gain necessary funding. Moreover, the state has the second highest number of startups in the country, according to the Small Business Friendliness survey.

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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. The next book I read was Screw the Valley: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America’s New Tech Startup Culture. The last book I read was The Startup Visa: Key to Job Growth & Economic Prosperity in America.

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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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The 5 Best Cities to Start a Business

Business Plan Blog

As an aspiring entrepreneur, you will want to launch your startup in a fertile environment with ample funding and quality of life (for good employees and good prospects likely seek out this characteristic in determining where they will put down their roots). 2 – Raleigh, North Carolina. 3 – Austin, Texas.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Governments use statistics in order to help them make decisions, they also use social science for research into communities, and this also leans heavily on statistics. North Carolina, Raleigh. The post Statisticians make the world go round appeared first on The Startup Magazine. California, San Francisco. Massachusetts, Boston.