Washington DC's second startup wave

As it turns out, the DC startup community is more robust than I thought! I had a hint of this when I joined the DC lean startup group that already had over 400 memembers! After reading this New York Times technology article it's clear that DC is a growing spot on the startup map. With a huge talent pool to draw from and low competition for investors the area is a good place to start a company.

NY Times article

PR at Startups

Awesome article, Mark Suster highlights outsourcing PR and the journalist connections PR agencies. Makes a lot of sense, emphasizes ROI is made through a great agency who pitches the right journalists at the right time and gets to know your startup.

How to Use PR Firms at Startups

GroundScore

Found a new awesome Sublime-esq band on Twitter. Check out the sweet sound of GroundScore!

GroundScore Myspace

Advantages to keeping your competition close

I read this post by Marc Suster and thought of a previous manager and company I worked for. They were always belittling the competition. They claimed they had the only logical solution. This looked bad to subordinates like me, I can only imagine what it looked like to potential customers. After two years with this company I saw how this attitude really damaged them mentally in how they think about themselves and their competition. If you can be honest in saying what your competition is good at then you can find the truth in what you're good at. As it was, this company just deluded itself into thinking they were the best at everything and no one took them seriously or believed they could deliver. Employees were under the delusion that this company was the center of the universe.

Read more from Both Sides of the Table here

Go do what you want

Another inspirational post!

What are you working on?

Why You Should Work For a Big Company

...And now, the tit-for-the-tat. Here are some great reasons why grounding yourself and understanding burocracy and process flow are important background before you launch into your startup.

Why You Should Work For a Big Company

Start a Startup

After reading and collecting great startup advice from notable entrepreneurs and slowly jamming them into my Google Reader I came across this blog post. Unlike other bloggers who just disseminate good advice. This post served to motivate and inspire. People say the average person changes careers 7 times in life, I think it's safe to say that those who choose to be an entrepreneur, stick with it for reasons listed in this article.

14 Reasons Why You Need To Start A Startup