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How to Raise Money When You’re Not in a Major VC Market

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And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. If they hire an accountant to help prepare and file their taxes that may cost around $500. With this you have a new rate range for a Washington, DC based programmer of web applications: $42.15-$67.15

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Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level

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Mike Lincoln (Washington DC / Virginia … Cooley). He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He became the go-to guy for many in our community including me. Don Lee (LA … LKP). By now I know many more.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. I believe investors had forced him to do this. And he followed through.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Thanks to thousands of donations, the people who are dedicated to feeding their communities have the opportunity to serve their food to the people providing critical healthcare. Have you found ways to be in a community of practice, in spite of those obstacles?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. For bonus points, make this a paid subscription.

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2019

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Venture Capital ?—? SXSW Startup Crawl Time: Friday, March 8, 4:00pm-8:00pm Location: Capital Factory, 701 Brazos Street Register: SXSW Badge OR register at atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Startup Crawl | The Biggest Tech Startup Event in Austin Kick things off at the biggest party of SXSW?—?The What do I search for? Startup ?—?

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