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Rokk Miami plans roadmap for tech hub

By Nancy Dahlberg

What does Miami need to put it on the map as a vibrant tech hub?

That’s the focus of Monday’s Rokk Miami, which will bring together up to 140 people from the community — entrepreneurs, foundations, government leaders, educators, big businesses and others — to assemble a roadmap for building a tech hub. Rokk Miami will be hosted by Miami Beach-based Rokk3r Labs, the Knight Foundationand Brad Feld, the well-known investor and author of Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City who will be at the event to advise and help guide the roadmap process.

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RokkMiami Will Rock Your World

It is almost here…

Brad Feld, Rokk3r Labs and Knight Foundation are hosting:

‘Rokk Miami: A Roadmap for Miami’s
Startup and Technology Community’

A first of its kind event where entrepreneurs and the Miami community come together to map the way towards an innovation and technology driven ecosystem. Check the details at www.rokkmiami.co

April 29th, 2013.

Check out the promo video here

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Startups get on the bus to bridge geographic divide

Published By The Starting Gate

Score one for organically grown tri-county collaboration.

For the first time, startup groups teamed up to offer a bus from Boca to Refresh Miami’s event at The LAB Miami in Wynwood on Wednesday night, with a stop in Hollywood. About 25-30 took the bus and the cost was covered by generous donations. The next bus experiment will be next week — Monday — this time from Miami to the Startup Delray’s Hack the Library event and is also free (more details about the event and Startup Delray are below).

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Start-Up City Miami

Start- Up City: Miami, watch our entrepreneurial revolution here

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SuperConf’s Startup Blast Off: And the winners are…

Published by TNW

The third edition of SuperConf officially kicked off at Miami’s Knight Center this Thursday with Startup Blast Off, a pitching competition that saw eight teams compete for a top prize of $22,000 in cash and rewards.

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Forget ROI; What’s our ROC — Return on Community?

Published by The Starting Gate

Startup and City have been separate conversations for too long — it’s time to explore their intersection, said Richard Florida, the urban affairs expert. And that’s what happened at Start-Up City: Miami.

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LAB Miami Hosts RefreshMiami Demo Night

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Brain Circulation and Miami’s future as a Start-Up City

Published by Beached Miami

Ahead of Start-Up City: Miami, I met with Florida, author of several influential books, including 2002′s The Rise Of The Creative Class, to discuss what Miami needs to do to transcend the (outdated) fun-and-sun stereotype and become a global ideas capital. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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Start-up City: Miami to bring national and local experts together for day-long event

Published by The Miami Herald

Next month, The Atlantic will launch Start-Up City: Miami, the inaugural event in a new series of day-long programs exploring the emerging models of “urban tech” taking root in cities around the world. The free event, produced in partnership with the Creative Class Group and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will be Feb. 13 at the New World Center in Miami Beach, conference organizers announced Tuesday.

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Offline is the New Online

Published by The Wall Street Journal

1. There will be many more companies started by college students and recent graduates. Students are eager to build businesses rather than getting corporate work experience first. Startups are the new Goldman Sachs.

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‘Rokk Miami: A Roadmap for Miami’s Startup and Technology Community’

‘Rokk Miami: A Roadmap for Miami’s
Startup and Technology Community’