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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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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

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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. What kind of real estate will be available for innovative companies and where? Now, it's actually true. Now, it's actually true.

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Walmart showcases Retail Innovations with its Vision for the Future at Consumer Electronics Show

American Entrepreneurship

He also outlined the company’s plan for ongoing innovation that will create technology for the benefit of customers, members, its associate team and society. Focusing on the leading technologies impacting business and society, Walmart showcased innovations centered around AI, GenAI, and AR that are enhancing Walmart as a shopping destination.

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NYC's Innovation Community: What Came Before and What Comes nextNY

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These days, it's kind of hard to miss what's going on in the NYC startup community. There were 30 of us the first time I went back in 2005. That's why the early efforts to build NYC's community were so impactful, even if the people who are just joining the ecosystem today don't realize what came before.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

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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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SoTecIn: Connecting people

Impact Hub

SoTecIn: Connecting people How does technology intersect with community collaboration to tackle pressing societal and environmental issues? Its innovative approach hinges on the integration of green and circular technologies into a novel framework that places community collaboration at its very heart.

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