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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community.

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.”

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1. Community Leaders + Organizers. It takes both to build a community.

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Gregslist – The Strange Attractor

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Igniting Startup Ecosystems. What ignites a startup ecosystem? Thriving startup ecosystems are good for the economy, good for society, and good for pretty much everyone. Thriving startup ecosystems are good for the economy, good for society, and good for pretty much everyone.

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The Next Wave of Climate Tech

Revolution

Awareness is higher; the technology and data exists; and the global community understands and is invested in progress.” These weren’t a match with the venture model as they were hard to scale, capital intensive, took many years to commercialize, and many of them relied on renewable energy sources that were astronomically expensive.

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Meet the YC Winter 2024 Batch

Y Combinator

What we call “the office” has very quickly become more of a campus, and the energy of this campus is unlike anything else in startup land. As Jared Friedman put it recently : YC’s new home is the most concentrated focal point the early stage startup ecosystem has ever seen.

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Without Black representation in climate tech, ‘the planet will burn’

TechCrunch

Historically, the Black community in the U.S. Relegated for decades to a vulnerable economic and social class, the community is nearly always at risk of facing the brunt of natural disasters, no matter where they occur. The Black climate tech community is growing, according to investors and founders TechCrunch+ spoke to.

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