Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. She is a big supporter of female founders and investors and currently leads a community of almost 1,000 women leaders and entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. Seattle, WA. Boulder, CO. Chicago, IL.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. So what can a community do?

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. The Valley has been a unique place for over half a century.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

I find no better way to get a feeling for local communities than to sit with a group of early-stage entrepreneurs and talking about the local scene. I profiled one of these interactions from when I last visited Seattle. What is working, what isn’t? What are their projects? What is the local funding environment like?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2010

If you are a regular reader of Feld Thoughts, check in and join the community. Three months ago at a board dinner in Seattle we discussed the idea of creating a much lighter weight implementation – basically something that a publisher like me could implement on my site without having to write any code.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

While we have expanded our partnership to two GP and have a bigger fund, our fundamentals stay the same: we invest at seed / pre-seed, in companies that leverage network effects, and across North America (hubs are SF, Toronto/KW, NYC, Seattle). and love marketplaces , social platforms , and Smart SaaS.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

TechStars will still run programs that it owns and operates in Boulder, New York, Boston, and Seattle, but we’ll continue to aggressively expand the overall network across the US as well as the world. We think entrepreneurship across the US is not a zero-sum game and we want to play our part in expanding it.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2013

TechStars Seattle applications for year four of the program are now open ! The startup community in Seattle is expanding rapidly and TechStars Seattle is right in the middle of it all, located in South Lake Union surrounded by Amazon, Microsoft and tons of other amazing startups. We love Seattle as a startup community!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

The combo convinced me that software was for creativity and community — 100% impacted the rest of my life. I admit I also enjoyed the year and a half I lived in Seattle after I graduated but at some point I knew I would be back in the bay. Do you have any “AHA!” memories of your own with regards to tech?

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

KS: For the first several years of Textio’s life, our team was entirely co-located in Seattle. By the time the pandemic started, we had brought on a couple of sales people in New York and San Francisco, but we were still 95% colocated in Seattle. How did Textio get smarter about remote teams over time?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2011

I spent the day in Seattle yesterday, starting off with an awesome early morning run along the ocean near downtown and ending the day walking back with some folks from a bar at UW in a freak Seattle snowstorm. I’ve been coming to Seattle for a long time.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2010

In the mean time, we’ve opened applications for TechStars Seattle. Andy Sack, who runs the TechStars Seattle program, has several great blog posts up including How TechStars came to Seattle? and Help me spread the word on TechStars Seattle applications. The schedule for TechStars Seattle has also been posted.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I formally declare year one of TechStars Seattle a huge success. I was absolutely blown away by the companies at Demo Day last week along with the reaction and support of the Seattle tech community. The Seattle tech and entrepreneurial community has really embraced TechStars. Tags: TechStars seattle.

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Board Effect

JUNE 2, 2022

Oregon Community Foundation. The Chicago Community Trust. Seattle Foundation. Bainbridge Community Foundation. National Endowment for Financial Education. Meyer Memorial Trust. McKenzie River Gathering Foundation. Collins Foundation. United Way of Lane County. Capacity Building Grants: Chicago. FHL Bank Chicago.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We’re featuring some of the amazing events that will be held across our portfolio in the months ahead. Outreach’s Unleash 2023 : Seattle, October 3-5 This three-day experience will feel like “a sales kick off meets personal excellence retreat meets president’s club.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. Co-Working Space.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones. I love the train ride between Portland and Seattle, and I’ve taken it dozens of times, including just riding up and back in a single day. Trains & Hyperloops.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Communication Intelligence Corp (Redwood City, CA), Supplier of electronic signature solutions for businesses - $2.2 DigitalTown (Burnsville, MN), Developer of a national network of online communities for high school students, alumni and boosters. $10 DocuSign (Seattle, WA), Provider of electronic signature technology - $27 million.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. More than 250 entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs and others interested in the Dallas/Fort Worth startup scene have RSVPed for the event. Joey Pomerenke, Startup Weekend.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2011

I feel strongly that the one of the important elements of building a sustainable entrepreneurial community over a long period of time is for the entire existing entrepreneurial community to be extremely welcoming to young college graduates. In addition, it keeps smart, well educated people (college graduates) in the local community.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

We believe it’s important to have our partners all based in one location so our starting point is wanting our partners to be based in LA and be committed to making this city a vibrant startup community that is now the third largest in the country. As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. Austin, TX.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . Weekly events, meetups, and happy hours are business as usual in these communities and provide priceless networking opportunities. Benefit your local community.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have a vivid memory of bombing a pitch that I was delivering to a group of angel investors in Seattle. In the spirit of community (and commiseration), we’d love to hear about your experiences. Bombing the Pitch. Wherever possible, include testimonies from real customers. No one sells your product better than happy customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 27, 2012

Last night, I was invited by Xconomy to come to San Diego and talk about entrepreneurial communities at a private dinner that had about 25 entrepreneurs and investors that care deeply about the issue. I talked about how the real up and coming communities are entrepreneur led. The best entrepreneurial communities seem to do this well.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In an article for Politico, Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer writes that the United States is doing its middle class workers and the overall economy a disservice by allowing lax overtime laws, which exclude the majority of American employees from receiving the time-and-a-half compensation they used to in the 1970s. The world of work.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 10, 2014

He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. NextView Ventures is excited to welcome Dimitri Dadiomov to the team as an MBA Associate. He’ll work with NextView through his final semester at HBS.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We also publicly announced two companies, which we invested in at the end of 2014: Volley : a community that connects people who need help with those who like to help. Booster Fuels : still in private beta with the mission to eliminate the gas station errand permanently. and two more unnamed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues.

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