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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community.

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I'm Running for the New York Tech Meetup Board

This is going to be BIG.

I was one of the first 100 members, dating back to February 2005. Over the last seven years, I’ve not only been an active contributer to the NYC innovation community, but I have strived to help make it more accessible, creating new leaders and supporting other people’s projects. or the Tech Biz Dev Meetup. More can be done.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. Always working on something entrepreneurial, he had a team of developers at the ready to execute on new projects. Rob's had a number of conversations with key market players around business development and is open to more.

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Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level

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He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. And again I won’t take credit for his decision to join Cooley but the magic of having David join Cooley is simply an awesome outcome for our community at large.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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He turned me down for a job in 2005. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. Research & Development. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. Yesterday I offered him a term sheet. They become my eyes and ears.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. AdReady – Develops software tools and management platform that assists content publishers and ad agencies with the creation of display ads. Rumored to be appox.

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