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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

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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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Next Wednesday night, I'm hosting a roundtable discussion between Brooklyn innovation community stakeholders on how to make this side of the river a better place to create, build businesses and grow. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g.,

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She Breaks Barriers: Enabling an Equal World for Girls in Sport

Impact Hub

We could not agree more with the International Women’s Day 2020 campaign theme for this year’s celebrations of female achievement: “An equal world is an enabled world.”. The post She Breaks Barriers: Enabling an Equal World for Girls in Sport appeared first on Impact Hub.

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Transforming Real Estate: Dan Noma Jr.’s Mission to Enhance the Investor Experience for All

Jason Malki

In 2019, Dan Noma brought the real estate community the first-ever certification to work with iBuyers & Investors, called iReal Estate Pro. In 2005, he joined the Arizona Best Real Estate team, where he worked for more than six years before opening his own brokerage. I had the pleasure of interviewing Dan Noma, Jr.,

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Your future shrimp meal could come from Atarraya’s farming technology

TechCrunch

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based