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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Today I’d like to talk about what startup communities outside of Silicon Valley look like, how they emerge and what makes them take hold. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld.

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Harnessing AI’s power, and managing the responsibility, with Diligent’s Nonie Dalton

Board Effect

Nonie Dalton, VP of product management for BoardEffect and Diligent Community, carries the conversation into the new year. How do these capabilities play out in products like BoardEffect and Community? “We We have initiatives in Diligent Community linking strategic goals within organizations and across all the stuff related to them.

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Announcing our investment in Nexus Mutual, a people-powered alternative to insurance

Version One Ventures

Building a mutual insurance on the blockchain makes it much easier to collect and manage the capital of members and manage the community of those members. We’re investing in Nexus alongside 1confirmation, Blockchain Capital, and Semantic Ventures and are excited about being part of bringing insurance back to the people.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens. The All-Seeing Eye – Hardware and storage should be rethought from the ground up in the age of semantic video understanding, and powerful on-device models.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” That always stuck with me. That seems very Brad to me.

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Hyperlocal Marketing: A Tried And True Method For Successful Online Marketing

YoungUpstarts

The point is to spend your advertising dollars reaching people in your community. The user’s zip code determines whether local results are displayed, and latent semantic indexing (LSI) returns pages with keywords that connect to the phrase that’s been searched. Keyword ranking has lost its meaning; it’s time to walk away.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace.