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Jason Returns to the 313 for Startup Grind Detroit on April 5th

Feld Thoughts

As many of you know, my partner Jason is from Detroit. He’s going back home for a special event and I encourage anyone near Detroit to go hang with him. Early in his career, Jason was a software engineer at Accenture. The Motor City. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley. Going further back, Jason holds a B.A.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Digital Undivided does this by offering workshops and resources in cities with predominantly black populations: Philadelphia, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Oakland and the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. According to Finney, black women need to be given the same resources and networks their white male counterparts enjoy.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

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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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Google – we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. Github – software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software!

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Techstars Berlin (Berlin).