Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Working my tech jobs — which were mostly in sales and operations — didn’t necessarily prepare me to report antitrust law or know which DC lobbying groups I should be talking to. At The Information, for instance, I covered Google and a huge part of that beat was reporting on all the antitrust cases the company faced.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. With this you have a new rate range for a Washington, DC based programmer of web applications: $42.15-$67.15 client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 19, 2019

Graduating students hungry to dive into the startup community around the world (aka StartUpLand ) often struggle to select the right, specific opportunity where they can productively start their career. Like David Brooks , I believe in selecting a particular community to invest in and contribute to as a member of the ecosystem.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2021

If you operate in DC, a presence on cannabis community platforms like 420dc can make your service visible and accessible. Every cannabis entrepreneur needs to realize that success depends on the visibility of your new brand. You need not put up expensive billboards and neon signs around.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 23, 2013

I have been to DC a few times with the policy business group I helped co-found, The Alliance for Business Leadership , and every time I’m there, I’m struck by the contrast with the more thrilling, action-oriented world of startups and venture capital. Today, Boston and NYC are shining examples of these elements.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Mike Lincoln (Washington DC / Virginia … Cooley). He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He became the go-to guy for many in our community including me. Don Lee (LA … LKP). By now I know many more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2016

For a long time I’ve ranted against naming your startup community “Silicon Whatever.” ” Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The LA startup community is called LA. The Washington DC startup community is called Washington DC.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2020

Another Helium fan – James Fayal – reached out to me about his effort to do the same in his hometown of Baltimore, as well as DC and Philly. I’m hopeful that some of the readers of this blog live in Baltimore, DC, or Philadelphia and are interested in participating in the Helium rollout.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Nearly 300 people are using them, and they’re part of the same online community, which allows everyone to see each other’s activity. DC Fawcett , Paramount Digital Publishing. Our life-balance coordinator started a program allowing people to get FitBit apps paid by the company. Brant Bukowsky , Veterans United Home Loans.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots. An Abundance of Entertainment, Community, and Recreation. There’s something for everyone here from world-class entertainment to community building to stellar urban recreation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Fortunately, it was around the same time that Brooks connected with Kathryn Finney of Digital Undivided , a community outreach program with the mission of getting black women started in tech. What Kathryn is bringing to the table is a community atmosphere for people who usually don’t quite fit the mold,” said Brooks. “It

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works. Our mission is to provide entrepreneurial women with a productive, professional work and meeting space, where they can connect with a like-minded community to collaborate and flourish. What is Hera Hub?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know Mike Lincoln in Washington DC does. He’s totally tapped into the startup communities in Silicon Valley and a bit in LA. I never met a person who didn’t talk about Mike Lincoln of Cooley Godward in DC. I’ve met several people from Cooley Godward who have stellar reputations in this category.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” If their commitment to staying local is weak I normally say, “Well, it certainly would be easier on you to be in a larger community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Even as "just a user" you make the community better by adding momentum. Yeah, weve got that. Leverage is work, though.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Below are details on how we accomplish this: Connect- We provide a social media community that focuses on creating more intimate, meaningful connections with family and friends. Tell us about your products and services. How do you help users? Sagoon’s goal is to help users connect, share and earn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Additionally, she is the founder of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, a non-profit organization created to break down systemic barriers and foster systemic change for women and other underserved communities. She has been named one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women every year since the list’s inception.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. We don’t know of any other location in DC or elsewhere in the country where multiple government innovation groups are colocated together with startups to create their own center of gravity. The SXSW Startup Crawl! particularly in the Heartland?—?due

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2017

She started I Am That Girl, a massive online community for the women’s movement. Margot Machol Bisnow is a writer, wife, and mom from Washington, DC. Joel Holland made films when he was young. His company Video Blocks is the top subscription-based stock footage firm in the world. Alexis Jones loved story telling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. By creating a space for your startup community to congregate and share new ideas, youre enabling a new kind of economic growth. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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David Cohen

JUNE 19, 2012

Access to startup community resources. The goal is to extend technology company startup opportunities to demographic groups that are currently underrepresented in the technology startup community. If your company is founded by veterans, apply to the Patriot Boot Camp in DC now! Interaction with other motivated entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

It allows one buddy to lean on another in war or commerce and combat, but, more importantly, it is sinew that binds communities together, enabling them to do together what they cannot do as individuals. I need to catch the 6:00 am out of Dallas to DC. There are two types of trust. I trust you will get the job done.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Then, after four years at UT and four years working in DC, Austin called me back with relative ease because entrepreneurship was always the city’s main draw for me, even more so thanSXSW or tech or Barton Springs Pool. I can make things happen here that I would have never been able to pull off in DC as a non-native or 30-something there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 6, 2013

I was supposed to be in DC all day today and tomorrow. I had full days of meetings, including two Startup Communities related events – one with the World Bank and one with a Congressional Caucus on Innovation. So I decided to punt on going to DC and stay in Boston. It’s an atypical day for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He’s a Redskins fan (he grew up in DC) so you have to kind of feel sorry for the guy. He has a lovely family – Joy and Zion – who are also active members of the LA community. Especially after the Eagles took them down this past Sunday. We watched together. I wanted to rub it in but it’s hard not to love RGIII.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Baltimore’s startup community has plenty of room for new leaders. There are a ton of programmers in this region and a lot of them are toiling away outside of the communities I highlighted in #2. Start an event or project. You can attract technical talent simply by being known as an outstanding, generous, helpful business person.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Hopefully the work and energy that I've put into understanding and helping develop entrepreneurial communities - first in Boulder - and now throughout the US via TechStars , energy around my book Do More Faster , and our investments around the country from Foundry Group reflect this belief. than I have in the last decade.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. Labels: hiring , lean startup 4comments: Tamar said. This post has been removed by the author. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. Another terrific post, Eric. Keep them coming. January 21, 2009 1:19 PM Jon Bischke said.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

It allows one buddy to lean on another in war or commerce and combat, but, more importantly, it is sinew that binds communities together, enabling them to do together what they cannot do as individuals. I need to catch the 6:00 am out of Dallas to DC. There are two types of trust: I trust you will get the job done.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites. Eric, what you've termed 'datablindness' seems to be a common affliction in fields which experience a sudden rise in the volume of data they have access to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I’m hoping to speak later this year in Philly, for example, where I’ll likely be in November and/or December (also in Annapolis so maybe Washington DC and/or Baltimore?). We have tons of entrepreneurs but our technology community has historically been splintered across town and across industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Each team of innovators is supported by a broader community of interested citizens throughout the country. The 1st round of five projects – MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov), RFP-EZ, Blue Button, Better Than Cash, and Open Data Initiatives – launched in August 2012 with 18 inaugural Fellows.

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