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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world. Well if you’re in Detroit you’re 100x more likely to get somebody who grew up in Flint coming by twice per year for ordinary reasons unrelated to work. Local press matters.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

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If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). Virgin Media Accelerator (London). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. Techstars Berlin (Berlin). Techstars METRO (Berlin). Techstars IoT (NYC).