That was the message from the Baltimore stakeholder meeting that Technical.ly convened last month. A discussion of how the city's tech community sees itself.
There are plenty of metrics that indicate Baltimore’s startup scene is growing, but it’s worth reflecting on how that expansion is happening. Behind each one of those stats lies a community that’s leaning on each other, and challenging each other when necessary.
Take jobs.
Tech businesses that started small now post the kind of fast growth where they need to hire quickly. It’s a mark of the community that a business like Mindgrub can hire 20 people just by reaching out to their network.
“We have not yet used a recruiter at Mindgrub,” said Kelly Brown, the Locust Point-based agency’s internal marketing manager. She joined the company among that uptick, which in turn followed its official relocation into the city.
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