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

Both Sides of the Table

” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money. Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. And build from there.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. In the last five years, web and mobile app startups that are founded to be sold to larger companies have become popular. lesson of using SBIC funds.),