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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

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?

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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Taking Service To The Stratosphere: 12 Keys To Creating Uplifting Service In Today’s Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

By Ron Kaufman, author of “ Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet ”. For example, “The customer is always right” is often wrong. “Oh, This is as true internally as it is with customers. Service Communications. Voice of the Customer. an employee asks.

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest. What’s Different.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re

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How to Make Community the Secret To Success

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Community the Secret To Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The word community has been with us for centuries. A town, a church, a school, a collection of hobbyists, have all long been identified as communities. A community, as described above, can serve a business in a number of ways.

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How I Started a Gluten-Free Cookie Company: With Josh Fegles of Jude’s Foods

Up and Running

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. I went in with the purpose of networking and finding someone who I could rent kitchen space from in a gluten-free facility. What makes running a business worth it?

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