Communities of interest, rather than those of place, begin at the intersections of relationships.
So if you wanted to find a convenient place to mark an X on the map of this generation of Delaware tech to show where it all began, you could do worse than putting it where Wes Garnett and Steve Roettger left steady full-time work to start something on their own.
“We decided to leave that job and needed to find something to do. Being young guys, people assumed we knew about technology, and we ran with it,” Garnett said.
In 2010, he and Roettger cofounded the coIN Loft, Delaware’s first coworking space. In recent years, he’s been building Kurbi, a health IT startup that’s on a short list of serious tech startups in the First State.
That’s why it’s hard for some in the community to believe that later this month, Garnett will pack up and move …