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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. In 2005, it was a risky bet to join Union Square Ventures and plant my VC career here in NYC.

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Founder factories: Alumni from 344 European and Israeli unicorns have birthed 1,018 startups since 2008

TechCrunch

The report, titled Europe and Israel’s Startup Founder Factories , was produced by VC firm Accel with heavy support from startup and VC data platform Dealroom. Founded back in 2005, French adtech giant Criteo leads the pack with its alumni going on to create 29 so-called “second generation” startups.

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