Startups Heat Up the Miami Scene
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Startups Heat Up the Miami Scene
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Re: Startups Heat Up the Miami Scene
#2mmmm, not so much, Miami comes in at #188:
http://www.jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=770&t=software%20...
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#3That said, I have friends who live there and the startup community has grown quite a bit in the past couple of years.
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#4mmmm, not so much, Miami comes in at #188: http://www.jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=770&t=software%20...
I call bullshit. There are a hell of a lot more than 200 software engineers in Miami. Plus, that site is only counting the number of positions within the 35 square miles of Miami proper, which is a terrible way to judge these things.
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#5So I am gonna take a wild guess that this was paid for by the folks at pipeline (disclaimer, I'm friends with them, but didn't ask them). The author seems to have never left this one co-working space.
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#6"....Hispanic market" ....
"....Advertising ...Branding.."
"....Call center..."
".... Latin American market"
"...The tenants look more like models"
Seems to be the same Miami I remember. Latin American Peacock/Party central centered on appearances and flaunting with businesses and startups catering to that... Oh and don't even think about applying if you don't speak-a-spanish. A scene that will no doubt heat up but will remain within the confines of the Latin market that none there seem to want to go beyond.
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#7I haven't heard of Pipeline, but whenever I'm in Miami I enjoy "co-working" at LIV. Friday nights are the best.
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#8"....Hispanic market" .... "....Advertising ...Branding.." "....Call center..." ".... Latin American market" "...The tenants look more like models" Seems to be the same Miami I remember. Latin American Peacock/Party central centered on appearances and flaunting with businesses and startups catering to that... Oh and don't even think about applying if you don't speak-a-spanish. A scene that will no doubt heat up but w…
Places like San Francisco and Palo Alto have their own little bubbles too.
Re: Startups Heat Up the Miami Scene
#9So I am gonna take a wild guess that this was paid for by the folks at pipeline (disclaimer, I'm friends with them, but didn't ask them). The author seems to have never left this one co-working space.
I think you're right ... no mention of The Lab, or any of the other Miami nascent hackerspaces that people actually know and talk about.
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#10So I am gonna take a wild guess that this was paid for by the folks at pipeline (disclaimer, I'm friends with them, but didn't ask them). The author seems to have never left this one co-working space.
Exactly...this is what PG refers to in his essay "The Submarine".[1] That said, apparently this is what startups should be doing, paid for ads posing as articles behind some bigger theme.
In this case a giant ad for Pipeline, highlighting two companies that pay Pipeline for shared work space, all hidden behind a fluff piece about Miami's booming startup scene.
I personally know of one other startup in Miami in the shared office space...space. They are well funded and had good media coverage like this when they started. However, to be honest there are hundreds of landlords who rent shared office space in Miami, they just do not identify themselves as startups in the tech scene. It is sad really because there is a much greater marketing effort to really sell people on hopes and dreams, compared to your typical landlord renting shared office space.
It is also unfortunate because Miami does have legitimate startups who should really be the ambassadors of the Miami startup scene. Just one example, CareCloud which is disrupting health-care IT and Software, has raised nearly a $100M...and even has some founders/management whose last names end in vowels.