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

Both Sides of the Table

My views, influenced by watching Brad’s tireless efforts across the country, were first encapsulated in a post I wrote about Seattle titled, “ A Few Key People Can Make a Huge Difference.” Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. The key is to be able to keep the best ones local. Local press matters.

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A Robotic Ball Controlled By A Smart Phone

Feld Thoughts

I’m always on the lookout for what I consider to be genius level software engineering talent. A few weeks into TechStars, I realized that not only was I hanging out with genius level software talent but that Ian and Adam thought about hardware and the combination of hardware and software in unique ways.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Upcoming Events. Disrupt NY 2013.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. Software Developer. Location: Seattle.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.