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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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ACA Visits DC to Advocate for 1202, Accredited Investor Definition

Angel Capital Association

ACA has been the driving force behind the legislation because it serves as a catalyst for investment and innovation within the Angel community. In addition to Section 1202, the group also urged legislators to protect financial thresholds in the current definition while also opening up measures of sophistication with additional entryways.

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Investing In Distressed Communities. Opportunity Zones

Smart Hustle Magazine

Their conversation definitely has to do with small business success and entrepreneurial support, but the journey is a little different than our normal conversations. Basically, this is the government's response to helping disadvantaged communities, but Scott helps explain to us why we should care and why it's important.

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Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Definition, Roles, & Responsibilities

Feedough

But the definition of CTO and his roles are not limited to this. Moreover, he contributed significantly to the tech community through education, promotion, and community engagement. His main focus was creating a smooth design which would form connections within communities. Aristotle Balogh, CTO of Airbnb.

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Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’

TechCrunch

Fiveable began years ago as a free, online learning community for high school students with the focus of helping them pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams. We’re the hallways of the educational internet,” said Fiveable co-founder and CEO Amanda DoAmaral. Its Discord community, launched in 2021, has over 25,000 users. More than 7.3

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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