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I really like ecosystems (not the green ones, but those too). CEO @EcoMapTech , making the information around us more accessible. Forbes 30u30.
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Humbled to be on this years
@ForbesUnder30
list in the Social Impact category along so many other amazing founders
We’re just doing our small part
@EcoMapTech
to make ecosystems across the world more accessible
Thank you to everyone who helped us get here!!
#ForbesUnder30
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Accelerators should have more seed-stage founders speak to their cohorts
There tends to be a preference to those later-stage founders who have ‘made it’ but
The further you get, the more you polish the early days, which isn’t helpful for pre-seed founders in the trenches
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Alright
@sweatystartup
I usually do not mind your stuff, but this comment is egregious
There are 55 million un- or under-banked people in the US, and yes, they deserve the ability to pay for shelter, or for storage, or to stop at small businesses
A hill I’ll die on:
If you’re a landlord and you accept cash / check payments, you’re wasting time and money.
Justify it however you want, but you’re wrong.
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@jwmares
Everyone should be scared of the prospect of PE firms being the primary buyers & removing that wealth from the areas those businesses are in
There's a serious economic risk to the SMB sector consolidating like others have - the capital outflow will *hamstring* local communities
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Surprised that you didn't take this opportunity to address the fact that you still don't have a single black partner
We condemn racism towards the Black community. We condemn acts of violence, bigotry, hate.
Change starts with each of us holding ourselves accountable and taking actions towards a better, more just world. A lot of work needs to be done.
Here's the note we shared with our team.
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To grow EcoMap in the earliest days, I forewent a salary for nearly a year so we could bring on more hands instead. Being young with no savings, that sunk me into ~$30k of personal debt
As of this morning, that balance is $0
Feels good.
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I have actually been moved to tears by the
@KauffmanFDN
#ESHIPsummit
Being an ecosystem builder can feel very lonely. To be with over 800 of them, even virtually, is such a magical experience
Thank you to all who made it happen!
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@MacConwell
I form of capital for a *very specific* type of company that has unfortunately received an undue share of media attention, and thus caused many founders with otherwise entirely solid businesses to kill their ventures trying to force their non-scale company into a VC box
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@sequoia
Almost $4b in assets under management but not enough to set aside for diverse recruitment?
Helps connect the world's top companies to the world's top talent, but has an internal pipeline issue?
Not to worry, a young entrepreneur with Google shall help!
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When we fund Black-led funds, they fund Black-led businesses, who create products for overlooked markets, which creates wealth for the founders, which starts to close the giant gap that a historically inequitable economy has created
Well done & congrats
@MacConwell
@Shanonce
1/ UPDATE! The founder in my North Star video is the amazing
@Shanonce
- Shawna Stepp-Jones and the product she wanted to make is a Dryer that can dry a Wig or Hair Weave in 15 mins with NO HEAT. I am TOO HYPE to introduce you to -let's make this go viral
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Providing mentors at a coworking space is not an Accelerator
Hosting workshops for founders is not an Accelerator
Providing free prof. services for tenants is not an Accelerator
These things are all great and helpful for entrepreneurs
They are STILL not Accelerators
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I never thought that the biggest problem our team would face was having too many people. But that’s what happened last night at
@Innov8Md
. We literally sold out, and every person there contributed to making it a fantastic event. Thanks again Baltimore, we’ll be back soon 🙃
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@sweatystartup
For a smart person, bad take
It saves hours of research on knowledge-summarization questions, it autogenerated code that would have taken at least 45min to write, and it’s highly accurate if you ask correctly
It’s one of the quickest ways to access information that we have now
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Whatever your opinion of SVB,
there are tons of founders who suddenly cannot access their $ (through no fault of their own),
thousands of employees who may not get paid Wednesday,
& an entire sector facing insane economic uncertainty & unknown downstreams
Be empathetic.
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This is… an unnecessarily aggressive take? Entrepreneurship is not limited to tech, and it’s not limited to founders
We should be encouraging generational transition of family businesses,
because otherwise PE will just buy them up and futher reduce local wealth retention 🙃
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Hired four people this week. FOUR. They're all amazingly talented, aligned with our
@EcoMapTech
mission & vision, and powerhouses in what they do. This has to be one of the most exhilarating aspects of being a Founder
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So we did a thing
.
@EcoMapTech
plans to hire nine to ten additional staff members over the next 12 months.
#Baltimore
#startups
#technology
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Today is probably not fun if you've been single during COVID, but I hope that during the inordinate amount of time you've been forced to spend alone, you have come to love yourself just a little bit more 💕
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@DanRodricks
@baltsunopinion
Filling Harborplace with local businesses is the best shot we have at making it a place that attracts tourists and locals alike with any consistency
No-one in Baltimore is traveling down to the harbor for the cheesecake factory
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Speaking at
#BaltimoreInnovationWeek
today about how to find resources for your startup in Baltimore's entrepreneurial ecosystem
It's very full circle for me, since this exact reason is why I started EcoMap in the first place ... 1/3
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@JoeMaruschak
Hey
@JoeMaruschak
, I know that it might be too late for you, but I wanted you to know that your story inspired me to do something to prevent other ecosystem builders from facing the same
We'll pay the salary of an EB for a year, no strings attached:
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@sequoia
Just in case anyone wants to follow all of the diverse VC funds I am @ them with on the retweets....
@CrossCultureVC
@base_ventures
@EchoVC
@ArlanWasHere
@Backstage_Cap
@HarlemCapital
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I love how people will be all " I believe in science" due to the pandemic
but refuse to acknowledge that the data show many social support programs actually pay for themselves in later expenditure reductions
Holds true for SNAP, permanent housing, EITC benefits, etc
What happens when you give families access to food stamps?
...
Kids in those families are much less likely to commit a crime through age 24 as a direct result.
"The...benefits from [food stamp's] later crime reduction exceed the costs of the program."
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Drivers in Baltimore need to see this. Even the "best" protected bike lane in the city doesn't matter unless drivers actually care enough to pay attention to the other humans that they are supposed to share the road with
This morning, I was hit by a person in a car who valued my life so little that they didn't even bother to stop to see if I was ok. They slowed before hitting me, paused after hitting me, and decided to leave.
I didn't even report it to the police. Do I think they care? No.
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Wild how dysfunctional politics are about to undermine a fundamental tenet of our economic system
@delong
’s Slouching Toward Utopia has been a fundamental read for understanding the current moment. Highly recommend for anyone trying to make sense of the modern markets
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#SOCAP19
has been such a whirlwind - so many people passionate about marrying business with social impact, across all sectors. But mostly, I'm having a blast meeting so many entrepreneurial ecosystem developers from across the world!
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@MacConwell
shining light on the difficulties faced by Black founders while raising VC, while also building a fund to address it
We need more people like Mac - who highlight the problem, then build a solution - and less people who complain without taking action
I said a few things about Black founder and fundraising difficulties.
They also took a really good picture of me.
#vc
#underrepresented
#BlackFounders
#Baltimore
#funding
#startups
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Morning walks constantly remind me of the sheer beauty of Baltimore’s Howard Street
A straight corridor from mount Vernon to the harbor, lined with gorgeous old buildings, triple wide sidewalks, and public transit
Majorly undervalued gem
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I’ve been waiting for the men’s makeup industry to take off
Honestly it’s kinda unfair that women can cover up acne/scars/eczema but men can’t bc stigma & lack of good products
Quite common in other countries, it’s about time the US catches up
A men's makeup company, Yeah we invest in that. Shoutout to
@umarelbably
&
@FentonJagdeo
of
@facultyworld
for being RareBreeds
Modern Grooming Brand Faculty Raises Seed Round Led by Esteé Lauder and including RareBreed Ventures
via
@wwd
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One of my first adult lessons was that framing things is for some reason ludicrously expensive?
... so ...
I built a better frame .... out of Baltimore's entrepreneurial ecosystem
#SupportEntrepreneurs
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I know that precisely very few people need to hear this but:
Don't call your program an Accelerator if you are just coworking space + some business support services
Accelerators = 1) cohort 2) capital 3) education 4) culminating event
A more appropriate term? Incubator!
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@DEVINENASH
We scrape a ton of websites to get data on who's operating in which ecosystems & VC sites are the worst offenders - poorly structured with no real data on who/what they focus on
It's honestly a really big problem for equitable access to information (perhaps intentionally so)
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I will never leave this city
It is inadvisable to do this to the vaccine.
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@lizbybike
Maryland Ave’s protected lane was what taught me to feel comfortable riding in the city. We absolutely need more of those, not only are they safer but they encourage more people to try out riding
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I heard someone complain that it is hard to shop local because they can't find the right businesses for their needs so...we built a platform
Explore over 200+ small businesses in Baltimore based on their products, ownership, neighborhood, and more
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@Montero
@DigitalSplash
@turoczy
@JoeMaruschak
@pdxmitch
@entrep_thinking
@chrisheuer
I know this is putting a fire out with a water bottle, but
The underfunding of ecosystem builders is a serious problem that threatens to undermine all the brilliant work y'all do
So
@EcoMapTech
is going to pay for the salary of an E Builder for a year:
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So excited to be giving a TEDx talk
@JohnsHopkins
on Saturday the 13th! Will be sharing my story about founding and running three ventures as a full time student.. with a part time job.. and a ?social life?
CONNECT THE DOTS, Tedx’s main event is soon! 4/13/19, 1 PM, Bloomberg 272
Our next speaker Pava LaPere is a Hopkins senior studying Sociology. She has revolutionized the entrepeneurial ecosystem at Hopkins as the cofounder of an organization that fosters entrepreneurship.
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I have nearly $30,000 in checks sitting somewhere in US due to
#USPS
defunding, many a month+ overdue
I'm lucky that we're able to weather the disruption in cash flow, but SO many businesses can't.
This admin's disfunction & fraud is killing US businesses. Absolutely shameful
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This 💯. Our first MVP was functional but ugly as heck - noone moved to buy
We invested in making it beautiful and since then we’ve had customers out the door
With all the no-code interface designers that exist, there’s no excuse for bad design
The Lean Startup concept is amazing but looks different today in 2021 than it did at the time the book was written a decade ago in 2011. I think one of the biggest changes is yes you can have a not finished product but I don't think you can have an ugly product.
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But let’s keep telling kids that going into trades is a bad idea because you can’t make a living without a college degree
Not anti-college, but how much we discourage students from getting into very lucrative trades shocks me
The HVAC industry right now is a true nightmare.
We literally can't get anyone out to our buildings.
Have a 15k job that no one even wants. Must be nice to be a contractor.
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Accidentally booked a room without whiteboards for a big meeting
@sparkbmore
today, but
@fearlessbmore
and
@hutchstudiohqs
came through to let us use on of theirs
#Baltimore
's ecosystem magic at work 😍 so grateful for this community
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No one mentioned that as a high growth CEO you’ll be stressed to high hell even when - especially when - things are going objectively great
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Stepping down from
@Innov8MD
was no easy decision, but it's time for a new generation of leaders to take the reins
The organization couldn't be passed to a more talented group of people. I can't wait to see how they support Maryland's student entrepreneurs in this next era
"If the first phase was about building a bridge, the next era is all about getting traffic over it," said
@PavaLaPere
.
Meet the new leadership team at
@Innov8MD
:
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As someone who's been both an ecosystem builder & a high-growth founder, being an ecosystem builder is honestly harder
CEOs have direct influence over what happens at your company. E-Builders have to influence an entire system of people & orgs without having any direct authority
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We're literally slammed everyday at
@EcoMapTech
trying to keep up with demand for the EcoMap platform
So why would we launch a new product?
Because it makes information about ecosystems even more accessible
And that's our mission.
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We have big news coming - made possible by the one and only
@SherrodHCDavis
Check out this amazing feature video below, from the Moonshot Program supported by
@TRowePrice
and
@BaltimoreCorps
We got an incredible chance for our co-founder
@SherrodHCDavis
to speak at Moonshot upon the the missions ofEcoMap and where our purpose truly originated from with our CEO
@PavaLapere
♥️
Big shoutout to
@TRowePrice
and
@BaltimoreCorps
for another opportunity to share that!
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There are so many photos I could post about Baltimore & Beyond but I think this one sums up my excitement pretty well
Giant shoutout to the
@Innov8MD
team, they kicked ass at putting this event together!
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And with that, I have finished my last course at
@JohnsHopkins
. It’s been a journey JHU, thanks for the fun
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Today is
@EcoMapTech
's Company All-Hands, where we'll bring together our team of 14 to set vision and strategy for the next 3 months. So blessed to be able to type those words
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This is game changing - the funding & space needed to thrive for Baltimore Black-owned businesses
Thank you
@fearlessbmore
@DowntownBalt
for recognizing & taking down barriers. You are true stewards of Baltimore's entrepreneurial ecosystem
The new initiative is Downtown BOOST (Black-Owned & Occupied Storefront Tenancy) Program: Presented by Fearless. Five Black-owned businesses will receive up to $50,000 each in grant funding for capital and operating expenses + lots of technical support.
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An accelerator that doesn't provide funding is an incubator.
Mislabeling programs is disingenuous and unfair to entrepreneurs who aren't versed in the nuances of ecosystem parlance
Nothing wrong with incubators, but we need to be transparent about what programs do & don't offer
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Surprisingly, no mentor ever told me that their biggest challenge being a 'CEO' was the transition from doing operations to management
Going from being hands-on with my product to really only focusing on sales + team management has been a hard time for me
Anyone else?
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@sequoia
@CrossCultureVC
@base_ventures
@EchoVC
@ArlanWasHere
@Backstage_Cap
@HarlemCapital
Oh wait - there are even more diverse VC funds who managed to find diverse VC talent -
@PrecursorVC
&
@chudson
,
@cleocapital
,
@NewVoicesFamily
@base_ventures
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Heck yes we are. Read more about the two new student venture accelerators hosted by
@FastForward_U
. Can’t wait to see what our next generation of entrepreneurs are building 🎉
Johns Hopkins is launching an accelerator for student startups
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Press reported on a pre-launch site and in the past that would have sent me into a tailspin and now I'm just sitting here basking in the utter chaos that is growth startups
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I stopped wasting my time chasing funders and instead chased customers and now we're expanding at a rapid pace AND my job is not investor management
so yeah - build, get customers, thrill them, repeat
10 years ago this was me waiting for a VC to give one Yes so I could build my company, except I got another 300 No’s, wasted 3 years of my life, lost all my savings and shut the company down with $60k in personal credit card debt.
My advice: stop fundraising, start building.
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I don’t talk about this phenomena a lot bc it’s hard to back up with data but
Different tech ecosystems absolutely have different personalities & some of them absolutely hold the ecosystem back
Gatekeeping, one-upping, self-importance… it spills over from people to network
Nuclear take: I think NYC VC culture holds the ecosystem back.
There are too many ex-bankers and who bring that buttoned up, overly concrete culture to the space, making it hard for out-of-the box founders to succeed.
So all we get is a bunch of forgettable SaaS and FinTech
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On one hand this man’s email really pissed me off, but on the other hand it is a very funny example of why you should NEVER be copy-pasting your lead gen emails
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Couldn't agree more - the earlier you can intervene on issues of ecosystem equity, the less likely those problems are going to become permanently embedded in the culture
It's awesome to see new tech clusters arise, but not if they share all the same problems as in the past 🙅♀️
“There is a clear need for Miami to have more and larger investors focused on minorities,”
@BrianBrackeen
said. “The numbers are poor and trending in the wrong direction, and now is the time for ecosystem action versus delay.”
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Every time I see a competition for post-seed companies w/ underrepresented founders that includes a hefty "pitch coaching" component...I scream internally
Over programming doesn't make up for underfunding
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Thanks for the love
@upsurgebmore
!
So excited to be a part of the inaugural
@TS_Equitech
@Techstars
accelerator
This
#FounderFriday
brought to you by hometown changemaker
@ecomaptech
– one of the 13 companies chosen to participate in our first
@techstars
global Equitech Accelerator. Congrats
@pavalapere
,
@sherrodhcdavis
and team!
#TechstarsEquitech
#Equitech
#maps
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My favorite pastime is watching people from NYC/SF/MIA be amazed at how other cities have drop dead gorgeous spaces & places and you don’t have to collateralize your first born to access them
How this apartment is not 10,000/month is insane to me.
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I love working with student & first-time entrepreneurs, but if someone pitches me another college tutoring or restaurant discovery app, I'm going to cry
Someone please pitch a "simple robots that clean sludge out of pipes in tanker ships" type venture
Niche > obvious
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#COVID
Proposition: let’s take all the money we were about to drop on hosting networking events and invest it into
#Baltimore
startups and small businesses, and then be amazed by what occurs when we put ecosystem capital to good use
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The
@HowIBuiltThis
episode with Seth Tibbott of
@Tofurky
is quite possibly the most entertaining story I’ve heard on here. Literally in tears laughing
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My NY resolution was to respond to all emails within 48hrs, so I've spent the last 6hrs responding to 200+ emails that have been rotting in my inbox for 4 months
... and I'm halfway through
In other news, if I don't email you back in 2 days, feel free to publicly shame me
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I'd say 75% of my use of ChatGPT + browsing is having it summarize long articles
Way better than leaving the article tab open for 17 days and promising to read it during every lunch break
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Feeling heavy after the discussion of the lack of support for ecosystem builders
I think about my startup journey & how much I leaned on EBs for support, connection, and guidance
If we want entrepreneur-led economic development, we must support ecosystem builders financially
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No big deal, JHU sophomore is just the first undergrad *ever* to swing the
@RHouseBaltimore
Pop Up. Come support him May 28-June 2nd!:
Hopkins Student Shares Chinese-American Heritage with Food Pop-Up via
@baltimoremag
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It's not until you witness the awful slowdown in work & emotional trauma caused by a dysfunctional team do you truly appreciate the magic of one that works well together
Grateful now more than ever for the
@EcoMapTech
team - y'all really are an absolute gem
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I didn’t think that refreshing Google Analytics was going to be this satisfying, but oh boy
#launchday
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Exactly. If we value ecosystem building then we want Ecosystem Builders focusing on what they do best,
NOT trying to figure out how to get paid for it
That's the job of the people who benefit from their work - ie, everyone who values local economies
This is going in the right direction. Expecting those doing to the work to figure out how to fund it, in an ecosystem that needs help figuring it out, does not work. More 'global' funding approaches are what is needed.
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If it’s anything other than entrepreneur-led economic development then we’re doing it wrong
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'Overestimated founders' has to be my favorite take of 2021 thank you
@ArlanWasHere
Over at
@hirerunner
, we’re quietly seeing early growth/traction the likes of which usually garner $5M - $20M rounds of funding for overestimated founders. I have enjoyed bootstrapping+being scrappy and *really* enjoy the non-dilution, but I wanted to point this out bc it’s true.
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"Entrepreneur" 👏 is 👏 not 👏 limited 👏 to 👏 high 👏 growth 👏 startup 👏founders
This 👇
Every startup is founded by an entrepreneur; not every entrepreneur is building a startup.
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The only thing that makes being a CEO possible is that 5am-9am window which represents your sole daily chance to get meaningful deep work done
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Last year I gave up responding to both emails & text messages and honestly my life has been so much better that I'm not sure I want to bring that one back
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Your presence will be missed
@NeilRDavis
!! But we know you'll still be around, always helping entrepreneurs 😃
@MDBizIncubate
and crew shows
@NeilRDavis
some love, on his way to retirement. A lot of great changes in our ecosystem wouldn’t be possible without him. Everyone will miss working with Neil
#Entrepreneur
#innovation
#startup
#ecosystem
#networking
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Being back art deco, unapologetically. Y’all be stewing in brutalism and wondering why you’re unhappy
Would it really be that expensive to CNC machine metal panels to create designs like this (Midjourney AI)? We should be able to match the craftsmanship of art deco buildings from the 1920s.
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So excited and proud for
@EcoMapTech
to be representing Baltimore along with
@MindstandT
and
@FEMLYBOX
in the inaugural
@upsurgebmore
x
@Techstars
Equitech Accelerator
12 startups were chosen for the inaugural cohort of
@techstars
' Baltimore-based Equitech Accelerator.
The accelerator is a partnership between accelerator network Techstars and
@upsurgebmore
, all oriented around building an inclusive innovation economy.
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One of my favorite morning habits is watching the skyline, where I can see about 2 dozen large apartment buildings from a distance
Many more windows light up at 6:08 than they do at 6am 💤
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Calling
#Baltimore
's entrepreneurial ecosystem - we need your help! We're finalizing the Industry categories for the
@EcoMapTech
3.0 portal, and here's what we have so far:
What big industry groups did we miss? Anyones that should be combined together or removed?
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Instead of supportive tweets and lamenting about how bad it is that we don't fund ecosystem builders
We decided to fund them
@EcoMapTech
will pay the salary of an ecosystem builder for a year, to enable them to do the meaningful work in their community
Feeling heavy after the discussion of the lack of support for ecosystem builders
I think about my startup journey & how much I leaned on EBs for support, connection, and guidance
If we want entrepreneur-led economic development, we must support ecosystem builders financially
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I've spent 16+ hrs this weekend engineering a new backend for EcoMap. I'm tired, my hands hurt, my eyes are sore
But once this is done, thousands of entrepreneurs will have near real-time information about what's happening in their ecosystems
The reminders we need to keep.
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Public service announcement:
Application fees for pitch competitions + other funding programs are discriminatory towards lower-income founders, with disparate impact on founders of color
If you want to design programs that are equitable and accessible, stop doing this
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I wrote things about a thing I built, check it out:
3 things we learned mapping Baltimore’s startup ecosystem
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Thanks
@BaltBizOnline
and
@BaltBizMorgan
for the feature of Emergence Baltimore!
We're excited to provide an immersive experience for founders looking for both progress & community. Apps close Aug 17th! (15th for scholarships)
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After nearly 3 years of having 500+ legitimate emails that need responses
On 5:15pm December 31st, 2022, I have reached Inbox Zero.
(also thank you
@Superhuman
- could not have done this without you)
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The Beta of
@EcoMapTech
3.0 goes live tomorrow!
So ready to have entrepreneurs test out the new standard in community platforms for innovation ecosystems.
We won't be public for a few more days, so DM me for early access!
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I love how everyone thinks startup CEOs are well adjusted because we work out & eat well
but it’s only because if we didn’t we’d drop dead of stress within 2 years
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@sequoia
@CrossCultureVC
@base_ventures
@EchoVC
@ArlanWasHere
@Backstage_Cap
@HarlemCapital
@PrecursorVC
@chudson
@cleocapital
@NewVoicesFamily
Also
@HBCUvc
is fostering the next generation of young black VCs, and one of their fellows
@imessien
has a great Twitter list for Black VC - follow it here:
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I'm mostly nervous to speak at
@ignitebaltimore
because the No. 1 feedback I get is that I need to speak slower and this format is just ENCOURAGING bad behavior
But come check it out tonight! 6pm Le Mondo...My talk: Building Equitable and Accessible Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
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Every time I think I can't be more amazed by our design & engineering team, they do something even more impressive
Some amazing features coming to our platforms & data, they deserve all the credit. So blessed by this team
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@bryce
Do you think it's fundamentally a bad thing?
It seems a bit like the markets are returning to rationality and demanding that startups raising actually have the traction to justify it
Could be a wakeup call for founders who were previously getting by on hype / connections alone
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I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that some people find Calendly links rude. You know what’s rude? Exchanging 6 emails to schedule 1 meeting
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@DelJohnsonVC
Thank you for actually calling this out. It's tiring to hear people applaud "progress" that is really just surface-level optics in many cases
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“The only mistake you can make is the one immediately after that”
Such a sincere apology by DOT, really upstanding proactivity on their part 👏
Apologies for the March 1st Meeting
To all Attendees, Civic Organizations, Elected Officials, and Private Residents who attended last night’s 28th Street Multimodal Connection Concepts Public Meeting.
We Apologize.
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2 hours into using
#ChatGPT
and I cant imaging returning to Google for knowledge-summarization questions again
One of these Q’s took our team a year to write a definition for, and the other would have taken at least an hour to identify sources & distill
Absolutely insane
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