Dan J. Berger

So DC Week just wrapped up last friday (BYT’s photos here) and DC Entrepreneurship Week has arrived. I didn’t even get a chance to breathe!

Apart from being informative and fun-filled, these two weeks are illustrating why DC is [again] becoming a technology hub.

In his October 2011 essay, Paul Ghraham says tech hubs work because within them startups are seen as cool and chance meetings with people who can help you are more likely. The more startups in one area, the more potent this formula becomes, he says.

Well, the YCombinator godfather must have been thinking about DC when he was writing his post. Events such as these are helping put DC on the map by making startups cooler and people more connected.

TechCocktail and iStrategyLabs deserve a huge amount of props for producing DC Week. Let’s follow their lead and produce more community-building/inspiring events. DC Startup Weekend is another good example. This is why I help organize monthly DC Founder Dinners and Study Hall DC. And it’s why Social Tables works out of District I/O.

What are you doing to make this hub stronger?