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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

I’ve regularly blog about patent trolls harassing startups and impeding innovation, the experiences of immigrant founders, and the battle for a free internet. A few months ago, I joined the Advisory Board of Engine to lend my support to an organization that is doing amazing work for the startup ecosystem. It’s time they listened to us.

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JULY 6, 2011

Finally I solved my Paris Internet Mobile 3G SIM cell phone nightmare poke my eyes out scream at my phone problem. You get a startup menu showing the credit on your prepaid account. Here are the steps (as of 7/6/11) for an unlocked Android phone and a Gmail user. Dial #123#. You need enough credit on your account to buy the data plan.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Bart shared notes about how the startup community in his area of Holland mobilized in response to COVID-19. I’ve been humbled to join a team that, over the past two weeks, built and launched HumanKind , a program to mobilize university students to help during the COVID-19 crisis. and CU’s entrepreneurial community.

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APRIL 22, 2013

On Digital Sabbath #5, I read Tech and the City: The Making of New York’s Startup Community. I gave a talk with Alessandro Piol on Tuesday night at the Apple Store on Prince Street that was sponsored by the Women Innovate Mobile accelerator. We had a fun hour long talk with Q&A, a lot of it about Startup Communities.

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APRIL 11, 2021

Enter Cleantech Open, the world’s largest and oldest cleantech accelerator for cleantech, climate tech, and sustainability startups. Through Cleantech Open, startups can build their entrepreneurship skills and professional networks, access expert mentorship, and connect with potential investors, partners, and customers.

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OCTOBER 1, 2011

I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. The emails start off something like this. Over $8 billion dollars will be spent on the upcoming 2012 election. The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it.

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MAY 23, 2013

Startup Weekend and Startup America Partnership are joining forces to create UP Global. In addition to Startup Weekend, UP Global also runs Next , StartupDigest , and NYSE Big Startup. Marc Nager, the CEO of Startup Weekend, will be the CEO of Up Global. I’m the co-chair of Startup Colorado.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

then you too can find the time and drive to accomplish something big, whether that’s starting a business, developing a mobile app, or writing a book. Gifford Pinchot used to say “early learning beats better planning”, and in some ways, this is the entire mantra of the startup movement.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I go every year because it’s a good chance for me to see how several of the parallel universes I interact with, namely government, academics, broadband and mobile carriers, incumbent technology providers, and policy people think about innovation in the context of the Internet. In my startup world, the same dynamics play out.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

My startup, all five employees and $0 revenue, is being sued by a patent troll. We are being sued for having a UI connected to a server connected to a mobile device. And get this- data goes back and forth between the UI and the mobile device. If your startup hasn’t been sued yet, don’t worry. It is madness.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

If you do anything mobile-related and use push notifications of any sort , or real-time location targeting , you need to be talking to them. They are so logical as to be rules that should apply to every meeting at every startup from now until forever. I love Scott Kveton , the CEO of Urban Airship. Do we really need to meet?

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MARCH 20, 2012

500+ people obsessed about mobile app development, cloud computing, and big data are going to be there this year. As part of the conference, Eric provides 15 early-stage startups with FREE exhibit space. This is the awesome conference that Eric Norlin puts on around our Glue theme. Did I say FREE? Did I say the demo pods were free?

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AUGUST 11, 2012

We’re a 11+ year old business that specializes in creating marketing websites and user interface design for web apps and mobile apps. We work with a wide range of clients including technology startups and big brands. Create high-end design work suitable for both marketing websites as well as web and mobile applications.

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MAY 20, 2012

I founded MoveableCode back in 2009, initially to do some mobile Augmented Reality research on a National Science Foundation SBIR grant. Two years later, we are all about innovative mobile entertainment. That startup died, but I stayed in contact with Brad and we’ve chatted many times since then. There is no try.”

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JULY 10, 2015

In an effort to buy real estate in burgeoning startup communities around the United States while more deeply engaging in the startup community, my partners and I have bought a house in the Cass Corridor neighborhood in Detroit. Jason Mendelson grew up in Detroit so this is a nice homecoming for him.

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MAY 7, 2013

Not only does Gluecon have the usual raft of amazing startup/early stage sponsors, but this year, the “big guys” are showing up (SAP, Intel, HP, Google, IBM, General Motors, Rackspace). Enterprise development is once again white hot. More evidence is this year’s Gluecon. or Big Data, or APIs?

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We’re also looking for ones that have huge under-accessed supply or demand, where mobile and location have an immediate impact on utilization, and where existing transaction friction – either as a result of process or trust – exists. I’m psyched to be an investor.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

I read Randy’s book yesterday while procrastinating working on my next book, Startup Opportunities. Last week Fred Wilson wrote a post recommending two books including Randy Hunt’s Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products. I grabbed them both. “People think that design is styling.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Others are emails I never want to see and want to unsubscribe from, but (a) it takes longer to do that, (b) trying to unsubscribe from a mobile client is painful, (c) many of my unsubscribes don’t seem to work (I just end up seeing the email again in a few weeks), and (d) the whole experience / UI is sucky.

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APRIL 22, 2010

A few months ago I wrote a post titled Startups at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA detailing the rich history of startups from ADP that happened around the time I was living there. After some back and forth, a handful of folks decided to mobilize another ADPrentice event for the undergraduates living in the house.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

I spent the day yesterday doing Denver Startup Week stuff. By 1987 I was regularly using faxes and Federal Express (the only overnight mail I was aware of), but a mobile phone and email didn’t really show up until around 1993 for me.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I’ve been very open about my belief, which I wrote about for the first time in my book Startup Communities , that the global financial crisis was the point at which networks overtook hierarchies in importance in our society. Read his words: “We will forgo sections of Title II that pose a meaningful threat to network investment.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Techstars Mobility (Detroit). These programs don’t run in isolation – rather they are part of a horizontal scaling strategy based on a premise that you can build startups, and a startup community, anywhere in the world. In addition, embedded in the Techstars growth model is a horizontal scaling strategy.

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