This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 17, 2017
I must take a moment to acknowledge the many kind greetings upon my return to Atlanta and the many well wishes as I departed Austin. I heard this morning at All Saint’s Episcopal in Atlanta this excerpt from a pulpit prayer: “Disturb us, Lord, when our dreams come true because we dream too lowly.” Think about that. Do the math.
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David Teten
JULY 25, 2017
We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community. A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. Boulder, CO. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.
David Cohen
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
“How is an early-stage founder expected to interpret the Give First philosophy?”. That’s the polite way of rewording a question Keith Coleman, Founder of Fraudmarc (Techstars Atlanta 2017), posed to Brad Feld and me in an email a little while back. Keith got our attention with his subject line, “give first, finish last.”.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] We've been this blend of community and a technology platform and we'd often get bucketed very much into one or the other. We had some people that just bet on us early on. 13:37] How does Hello Alice make money if joining is free? [14:39]
socialmatchbox.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.
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