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“It’s okay to take profits and not hodl forever.” Does this make Alex Taub a web3 contrarian or just reasonable?

Hunter Walker

Now that all three of those situations have changed, I figured it would be worthwhile to check in with him about living in Miami, going deep into web3 and his latest startup Upstream. I deliberately tried to work with people that I could learn a lot from and really engrain myself into the community. AT: Love Miami.

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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

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goal for 2022

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. 19- Hiring people for exponential growth.

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SXSW Startups: BehaviorMe

Austin Startup

Help 300+ kids learn basic community life skills. Continue hiring an A+ team. Gainesville is a small but fledgling startup community that has suffered through ups and downs as any other community has. Chris would be the Miami Hurricanes new mascot. What are your goals for BehaviorMe in 2019? Raise our next round.

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Entrepreneur That Grew Up In A Household of Educators Creates Solution to Education Challenges

Hearpreneur

We had the opportunity to speak with Ariel Quinones of Ironhack with locations in Miami, Barcelona, Madrid and Paris to hear his story, what entrepreneurship means to him and how Ironhack changes the paradigm of what it means to teach 21st century digital skills. What does your business/organization do? What is the mission and vision?

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