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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Well if you’re in Detroit you’re 100x more likely to get somebody who grew up in Flint coming by twice per year for ordinary reasons unrelated to work. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Google – we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. Github – software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software!

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. But while many contemporary technology approaches embrace scale horizontally, many business approaches are limited to primarily scaling vertically. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). These two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Money wasn’t an obstacle for the Chicago-based founder, but as a black woman in technology, networking in a new city might be. “We According to the latest data collected by the National Center for Women in Technology, only 25 percent of U.S. technology jobs were held by women in 2009. But in reality, Brooks is an anomaly.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.