Screw the Valley

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Timothy Sprinkle. Screw the Valley

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To Kristin, for making this happen,

and Harold, for convincing me it was

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“If you’re going to start a real estate brokerage, there’s a template,” explains Darius Dunlap. “It’s very much known, it’s very controlled by laws, and there’s a way you go about it. And, other than the subtleties of it being a relationship-based thing, other than actually running the business and making it successful, you know what business you’re in and you know what the value proposition surrounding it is. You know what you’re going to sell. With a startup, by definition, at least some of those things are unknown, and you’ve got to figure them out as you go, so a community can be really helpful.”

The flipside, of course, is that entrepreneurs need to give back to their community once they find success of their own in order to keep the ecosystem going. That’s the grease that keeps the system running year after year, everywhere from Silicon Valley to Muncie, Indiana: that culture of reinvestment and giving back to the city and community that helped you get where you are. It enables future founders to get a foothold in the market and, over the years, keeps the ecosystem together, that spirit of “give before you get.”

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