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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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To effectively support any entrepreneur, you must develop an infrastructure of resources in your community. After working with over 100 communities, we know that resources tend to cluster around the type of entrepreneur served and stage of business. Include resources that specialize in supporting new entrepreneurs.

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

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I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". These are people whose business it is to support startups. It's in the Financial District--right at 55 Broad Street.

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Humans + Tech – Community managers

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Humans + Tech – Community managers This blog is supported by Yardi. Coworkers are sociable creatures – and they need human interaction throughout the day. They want to drink coffee. Read More

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Discover Coworking Spaces – CoFynd Startup Review

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What if there were an Airbnb for coworking and co-living spaces? An online platform where you can book an office, coworking, or co-living space for a day, a month, or more; for yourself, your team, or your company. CoFynd is an online discovery platform for searching and booking office, coworking and co-living spaces.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community.

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

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An entrepreneur needs a network of supportive people and resources to maximize his or her chances of success, because there will always be fires to put out. Building a startup community, or startup ecosystem, is no easy task and requires a lot of intentional work. What is a startup community? Why create a startup community?

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The Startup Community Way. and more from Maine.

EntreWorks Consulting

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.