This is just a great post from Mark Suster:

How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

We’ve seen a lot of these things said, individually, but this list is concise and complete. If you want a thriving startup community in your city, you need to read and follow the recommendations in this list.

Here’s one of my favorite sections, from the middle of the post:

What Does a City Need to Compete?

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens.

It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts:
1. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community
2. The Components of any Great startup community

But there are ways to drive the growth of a community that I see out there when I travel the country and talk with local startup leaders.

Read the whole thing. It is great!

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Kraettli Lawrence Epperson

Managing Director at JumpPhase Ventures

This blog is dedicated to providing advice, tools and encouragement from one entrepreneur to another. I want to keep this practical and accessible for the new entrepreneur while also providing enough sophistication and depth to prove useful to the successful serial entrepreneur. My target rests somewhere between the garage and the board room, where the work gets done and the hockey stick emerges.

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