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JUNE 20, 2013

While any exit in NYC is great, what makes this particularly special to those of us on this side of the river is that it was the first tech startup in Brooklyn to sell that was a) native, b) bought for what it did, and perhaps, more importantly, c) had a model whose idea was native to the ideals we promote in this community, namely creativity.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

However, the innovation community seems to be in love with this format, so you can’t be a VC without watching a bunch of them. First off, technology sucks. That's why, when you're giving a live presentation, you should pretty much assume the technology will fail—whether it’s your technology in a demo or the A/V in the room.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

They leverage technology to promote their content creation, particularly the internet and social media, to reach audiences, build communities, and often monetize their work. Community Engagement : Successful creators often cultivate a community of followers, which can help them grow their influence and increase their earning potential.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. Not only did users start signing up for backup of the hosted photo services they were using, but they started requesting additional services as well—Google Docs, Basecamp, blogs, even their web e-mail.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

It is 12,000 sq ft of indoor /outdoor space and we’re building into a community work environment. Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. We also run annual CEO summits and topical discussions groups in marketing, technology, recruiting and the like.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The round includes Lerer Ventures, who participated with the same level of support, Betaworks and a host of experienced angel investors from the design and creative community. I wrote before how certain web services have been prescient in their vision for how people will interact with new technologies. He wasn’t overselling either.

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MARCH 10, 2011

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 16, 2021

Creating a community. Entrepreneur David Dávila believes that the key to his coffee company ’s success lies in his community of passionate customers. We have made greater use of technology, especially social media, to reach a global audience,” she says. Mentorship and coaching. The lesson?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

My entrepreneurial story didn’t start with an invention or a groundbreaking technological breakthrough. But also know that with perseverance, a supportive community, and strategic thinking, it is possible to navigate the journey and emerge victorious. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. He became the go-to guy for many in our community including me.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

With all of this news about Brooklyn 's tech scene , I've been thinking a lot about what made the NYC innovation community grow so quickly. The "meetup" culture of NYC, where there are three great educational events to go to every night is how the community bootstrapped itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Culture refers to the social and emotional glue that bonds employees together into a community of belonging, motivates employees and protects against burnout. It also involves the values that guide the community of your employees into the increasingly disrupted future. We connect with others and belong to communities to be fulfilled.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. He was riveting. To stay the crowed was “wowed&# was an understatement.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

Equality between genders is good for business, great for communities and essential for business growth. What specific ways are you supporting gender equality in your business and your community? Technology implementation has allowed me to maintain a fairly lean payroll (critically important if fundraising is challenging).

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MARCH 29, 2010

There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. Community is one solution I had in mind. A good example is the Etsy seller community which does a lot for new sellers to help them get up and running—sharing best practices about taking photos, copy, pricing, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. In the technology space we have backed Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), Yesterday.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2024

There is so much more to leadership that builds community and creates impact. After several years of expanding that legacy brand, I launched a property technology company to help renters and property owners find and exchange opportunities in Kenya. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s nearly impossible to replicate the complexity of human communication with all of its nuances, both verbal and nonverbal, online. It’s not that technology has eliminated our capacity to connect on a human level; it’s just that digital connections and online exchanges will never achieve the same depth as face-to-face interactions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

What most people never understood about Maker Studios is that much of their growth came through technology innovation and advantages on our back-end the most people didn’t even know about. Online technology company that distributes video. Each does it for building an online community either for personal or professional utility.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2020

Then we ensure that our website content, such as pillar pages, subcategory pages and blogs, is up-to-date before we map out the various posts across our channels to support this vertical. What we do is we produce many videos for community to build trust, develop top of funnel awareness and sell Foundr products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry. At the core is the nucleus: the interactions between John Deere and the farmers powered by a digital network, and drawing on a host of technologies including weather monitoring sensors, telemetry, AI and machine learning.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

There was what seemed like an endless stream of bombshell announcements for four months: Alphabet’s Waymo unit filed a lawsuit against Uber claiming that a former Waymo employee, Anthony Levandowski, stole secrets related to autonomous vehicle technology. Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I first discovered him or her as a commenter on Fred Wilson’s blog. But my job is to understand technology and therefore you must use it to understand it.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 28, 2024

Revolution [Stephen Witt/New Yorker] – One might make the case that Nvidia is the most important company in technology right now and this classic New Yorker profile gets you inside his history, his head, and their future. Both of these programs are aimed at open source software community contributors. Also, an immigrant !!!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2023

From tackling climate change to empowering underrepresented communities, their determination to create a better world is truly inspiring. Their technology can potentially trap up to 95% of CO2 emissions from commercial ships, providing a cost-effective solution for reducing environmental impact in the shipping industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Rapid advancements in technology—including artificial intelligence, IoT technology and blockchain—make it crucial for entrepreneurs to stay informed about technological advancements. This will result in community successes. and more articles from the EO blog. Benjamin Katz, EO Los Angeles, CEO, Happy Head.

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MARCH 18, 2010

When a reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people. Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. On top of that, there’s a thriving little community happening around my comments, powered by Disqus. It’s just as well.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Jordan Hudson.

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EntreWorks Consulting

AUGUST 18, 2020

I recently returned from our annual Maine vacation to find my pre-ordered copy of The Startup Community Way by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. This new book follows up on Feld’s excellent 2012 work Startup Communities , which I still consider to be among the best guides to entrepreneurial ecosystem building. The Startup Community Way.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

Prashanth wrote a “State of the Company” post yesterday on the Stack blog and I would like to highlight a few sections from it. million new users joining the community. Every day, users answer thousands of questions on topics like cloud technology, container orchestration, and machine learning. million answers and 2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s). He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

They'll usually speak for free if it means helping out their local developer community with best practices. When you're doing RSVPs, use a tool like Eventbrite that allows you to collect more information from each attendee--like what languages they develop in, how many years experience they have, current company, LinkedIn, blog, Twitter, etc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2021

We’re starting important conversations between entrepreneurs and global experts around making significant changes to their businesses that benefit people, community and planet,” said Marsha Ralls , EO’s Impact Day Champion. “As The technology is there. Look for a future blog post detailing this important information.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This is doublely true for a place like New York City where there are so many resources that aren't actually part of "the scene" and the rules of engagement are separate from anything accepted as a norm in the tech community. Technology is powering a world where this is your life and you are the center of it.

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MAY 29, 2012

If you've never blogged before, you might not get what I mean, but it's akin to how our view of the world changed the moment we all started carrying around cameras in our pockets. Technology slows the world down long enough to let us pay attention to move of it. The NYC tech community in particular has been built on knowledge sharing.

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