Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

Tiffani Bell is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Water Project , a platform that connects donors to people in Detroit and Baltimore in need of assistance paying their water bills. For example, in Detroit and Baltimore you can lose your kids over not having water in your house. Clips from their interviews are below.

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Detroit Baltimore Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3 Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 billion). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

New York City and Baltimore are each 100 miles or less away. Compare the Philadelphia startup scene proximity to other cities with that of startup heavyweight San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley. The sheer size here is appealing to startup workers looking for a fast-paced city lifestyle.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. The ingredients are all here. Stating the obvious but you can’t will a region into success.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 10, 2012

If one considers NEA a Silicon Valley firm (I know they are headquartered in Baltimore but they have a very large and successful west coast practice), the top five funds raised are in San Francisco and represented 55% of the capital raised. Interestingly, of the 53 funds raised, only 16 were new funds (more on that later). -

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley. And now it’s even easier to build a big business outside of the Valley. But of course that’s horse puckey.

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