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Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

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Government. How Accelerators Are Different Than Incubators. Why Incubators Don’t Work. Reliance on Government. Entrepreneurs vs. Government. Welcome Everyone Into The Entrepreneurial Community. Engage The Entire Entrepreneurial Stack. Leaders vs. Feeders. What’s A Leader? What’s A Feeder?

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The Colorado PUC Trying to Shut Down UberDenver

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In yet another insane move by government against entrepreneurs and job creators, the Colorado PUC is proposing a new set of rules that would shut down Uber in Colorado. Government supporting powerful incubants (the taxi industry) that are threatened by disruptive innovators through regulation.

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Startup Phenomenon, November 13th-15th in Boulder

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Startup Kitchens : Transformative accelerators, incubators, and mentorship programs. City governments : Why some are better than others at nurturing local startups. We’ll cover topics including: The Finance Chain : How VCs, angels, crowdfunding models, and all the rest fit together.

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Support Startups for Net Neutrality

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Engine Advocacy , Y Combinator , and Techstars are organizing a letter opposing these actions, signed by startups, investors, accelerators, incubators, and entrepreneurs. Congress is lining up behind him. Ten zillion words have been written about Net Neutrality.

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Save UberDenver Rally On Monday

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I continue to think the whole situation is insane especially given our state government’s strong position on advancing innovation in Colorado. I’ve had a number of private conversations since I wrote my post The Colorado PUC Trying to Shut Down UberDenver.

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Book: Tech and the City: The Making of New York’s Startup Community

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I started off at 20 Jay, saw NYU Poly Incubator , went for a long walk around DUMBO with Charlie O’Donnell , had an awesome lunch with Chad Dickerson (Etsy CEO), and then walked to MakerBot and hung out with the team there for a while. I experience this all the time in New York. But I got a new taste of it on Thursday.

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