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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. In 2007, launched “America’s Giving” challenge with Facebook and Parade magazine. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley.

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The Acceleration of TechStars

Feld Thoughts

It dawned on me last night that as of tomorrow TechStars will have three programs running at same time with about 40 companies actively engaged in programs in Boston, New York , and San Antonio. Last week David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO of TechStars announced that he had raised a new $28 million seed fund called Bullet Time Ventures II.

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Government Shouldn’t Be In The Accelerator Business

Feld Thoughts

As a co-founder of TechStars , I’m a huge believer in the mentor-driven accelerator model. We funded the first TechStars program in Boulder in 2007 with $230,000. We ran the second program in 2008, expanded to Boston in 2009, and adopted a funding strategy for each local program which we continue to use to this day.

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Paul Graham and The World Out There

This is going to be BIG.

Every time he opens his mouth about founder diversity, he seems completely out of his league to address the topic. The biggest question I think VC''s face right now is whether or not, in the future, the best founders will look and act like the best founders of the past. YC''s best investing days may be behind it.

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Ethos: What 'Blank Canvas' Means to NextView ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

This is true not just for entirely new product categories like tablets, but even existing ones… smartphones had been around for 5+ years before the first gen iPhone launched in 2007 (remember Palm Treos and the original Blackberry phones?). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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12 Terrific Coworking Spaces in Chicago

crowdSPRING Blog

Besides the financial benefits that sharing space provides, coworking offers access to networking and communities that can be invaluable to any new or growing business. Since 2007 it’s helped find, fund, and nurture technology companies out of its 65,000 square foot workspace in downtown’s Lyric Opera building. Merchandise Mart Plaza.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities.