Comments on: Competitive Cooperation

By: Welcome aboard, Rob Johnson « Gnip – Delivering the Web's Data

Welcome aboard, Rob Johnson « Gnip – Delivering the Web's Data — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:02:55 +0000

[...] Marcoullier One of the highlights of Boulder’s startup scene is the community aspect, what Micah Baldwin describes as competitive cooperation. In many areas, startups see success as a zero-sum game and the ecosystem feels pretty hostile. [...]

By: Vicky Victorious

Vicky Victorious — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:50 +0000

Hi Micah, this is Vicky Victorious from London. Your comments are inspiring; I've just given up competing entirely and started a blog about its effects (my competitive nature used to get me in a lot of trouble). I welcome all sorts of alternative approaches!

By: Vicky Victorious

Vicky Victorious — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:10:50 +0000

By: Heather Duey

Heather Duey — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:41:25 +0000

Micah,
My husband and I frequent the Boulder area for the exact reasons you mention (we currently live in Tallahassee, FL). I often say that it's amazing how two competitors can sit and have coffee and discuss strategies – you don't see that in many places and it's one of the reasons we want to move to Boulder. It's nice to see that I'm not disillusioned about what goes on there; I often wondered whether I had “grass is greener” syndrome or something, as there is not much going on entrepreneurially here.

By: Suburban Sweetheart

Suburban Sweetheart — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:16:46 +0000

I love the the AdSense ad that popped up under this in my Google Reader was for pork. You know, like, the other white meat. Clearly, Google latched on to the swine flu mention.