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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” They can have some longer term impacts through educational institutions. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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Since 2010, populations in rural cities have been falling and according to the United States Census rural America now represents less than 20% of the U.S. 74% of employers in rural areas stated they had difficulty finding candidates with the right education, skills or training. Population, though 97% of U.S. land is considered rural.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

Both Sides of the Table

Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. We decided that V2 would have a more formal education program taught by real practitioners rather than just hosting discussions on topics as we did in V1. We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate.

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10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Inspired Me—and Will Inspire You!

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I first met Merry Riana when we were both being nominated for the The Great Women of Our Our Time award sponsored by Singapore Women’s Weekly 2010. I first met Kalika Yap at EO’s Entrepreneurial Masters Program (EMP), an executive education program. Since then, we have become good friends. Tangerine Co.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing.