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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. Startup founders always need help. They can have some longer term impacts through educational institutions.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. And there you have it.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. And trust me when I tell you that 90%+ of the people can’t wake up every day with the uncertainties and insecurities that startup founders face. Most employees want cruising altitude, most founders live in take off mode. Call me when you’re ready to leave.”

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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There is some evidence that more PhDs are turning their heads to startups. A survey of US-born founders of 502 engineering and technology companies, founded between 1995 and 2005, showed that only 10% of founders had a Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term? colleagues would become more common.