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== Tom Tom Founders Festival<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The [http://www.tomtomfest.com/ Tom Tom Founder’s Festival (TTFF)] is an annual event in Charlottesville that makes the entire city aware of innovative works in areas ranging from technology to food. &nbsp;TTFF connects people and new ideas to the future as various disciplines such as art, music, science, entrepreneurship, and design fuse together in this festival. This movement is representative of the innovation that takes place in Charlottesville and coincides with increasing activity of entrepreneurship and startups.<br/span><br/></span>
== HackCville <br/> ==
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">[http://www.hackcville.com/ HackCville] is a member supported, member run 501.c3 of designers, programmers, makers, creatives, and the just plain curious. No matter your skill, HackCville shares, learns, and does, in support of one another’s projects and the efforts of both UVA and Charlottesville organizations doing great work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">If collisions is its mantra, then inclusivity is its ethos. HackCville members foster a culture that is unassuming, encouraging, and built on action. The group takes care in helping people at any skill level “hack” their projects, education, or careers. HackCville acts as a source to find direction and get started.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Through scheduled events, classes, structured “office hours”, and workshops, HackCville aims to support both the entrepreneurs from both UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville community.</span>
<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb= Virginia Active Angels Network (0, 0, 0VAAN); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><br/><== The [http://www.virginiaactiveangelnetwork.com/span>Virginia Active Angles Network&nbsp; ]is a professional angels network based out of Charlottesville, VA but includes angel investors from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Richmond, New York, and Georgia. The investors meet for a monthly dinner, engage in early stage seed funding and organize or participate in the Startup Weekend Charlottesville.&nbsp; Letitia Green, who currently heads the organization, is also a professor at UVA and active organizer of other UVA and Virginia state entrepreneurship events.
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