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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

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It needs to go house to house--founders and employees getting matched through individual e-mail intros, deals happening over handshakes, and startups getting recruited into your ecosystem one at a time. If you want to connect to an innovation community, there isn't a better place to start than someone who invests in it.

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Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders

TechCrunch

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

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Anyone can build a coworking space, but it''s a lot harder to attract and curate a set of folks that makes me want to move into that space. She started out by simply taking a space and filling it with the kind of people that inspired her. Venture Capital & Technology' and figure out how to support them.

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Impact Hub Recife leaves global network

Impact Hub

The entrepreneurial community and coworking space of Impact Hub Recife, embarks this month on a new vision. The founders of Impact Hub Recife, have decided to venture into a new line of business, completely focused on sewing together entire territories based on the concepts of collaboration and efficient allocation of square footage.

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Startup Communities – Where to Find Them and How to Get Involved

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

An interconnected startup community is one that shares common values and whose interests support the entrepreneurs, their ventures, and the startup community as a whole. Chantalle Dumonceaux , co-founder of and adviser to Womena, an angel investment platform focused on women in the Middle East. Incubators / Accelerators.

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Top Ann Arbor Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021

StartupNation

Community organizations like Shine & Rise provide support and mentorship to women who work at tech companies, and coworking spaces like Cahoots offer dedicated tech entrepreneurial spaces for the community. The founder, Daniel Young, is working hard to cultivate a culture of inclusion and openness. Workit Health.

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Draper Startup House launches first accelerator program, choosing Austin as its home

TechCrunch

It is now also the new home for Tim Draper’s newest initiative to help support early-stage founders: Draper Startup House Accelerator Program. As founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, or DFJ, Draper in 2018 introduced the Startup House concept.