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What Should You Make of the Web Summit Controversy? A View Behind the Scenes

Both Sides of the Table

Like many of you I read the Is Web Summit a Scam article making the rounds this week. I have attended Web Summits three times – it is not a scam. I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. That’s why so many people come to DreamForce and so many come to Web Summit.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Brian Brackeen, CEO of Miami-based Kairos also found Miami hard to resist : We were searching things like AngelList, GitHub, different state web sites, then we took all that data and Miami was at the very top of the list in every important category…Cheapest for our employees, and the best tax situation for the company and our workers.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Brian Brackeen, CEO of Miami-based Kairos also found Miami hard to resist : We were searching things like AngelList, GitHub, different state web sites, then we took all that data and Miami was at the very top of the list in every important category…Cheapest for our employees, and the best tax situation for the company and our workers.

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Collision Conference Finds a New Home in Toronto Canada

ReadWriteStart

The announcement was made by Paddy Cosgrave, CEO of Web Summit, and Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. Starting with just 5,000 attendees in Las Vegas, it is expected to host more than 25,000 tech executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and media from approximately 120 countries in New Orleans this year.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Brian Brackeen, CEO of Miami-based Kairos also found Miami hard to resist : We were searching things like AngelList, GitHub, different state web sites, then we took all that data and Miami was at the very top of the list in every important category…Cheapest for our employees, and the best tax situation for the company and our workers.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

Located in both San Francisco and San Jose (and soon to be Las Vegas), Citizen Space bills itself as simply, “a nicer place to work.” Providing productive shared working space, Hatchery members include Web 2.0 Current members include marketers, writers, web developers, and non-profit tech companies. Citizen Space.

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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

I used my employee discount that last day to purchase a Compaq luggable computer and drove with my brother to Las Vegas. Today he is best known as the host of the Frank Peters Show, delivered via the web each week to tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, angels and VCs worldwide. We had burned our bridges behind. Starting up'