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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. ” Put simply, if you care about building a successful tech community outside Silicon Valley you should read this book.

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Why There’s A Startup Boom In The US Midwest

The Startup Magazine

billion company and has built up this valuation outside the Silicon Valley scene. Pittsburgh has Duololingo, Columbia, MO has Equipment share, Madison has fetch Rewards, and Kansas City has Backlot Cars. The culture is very different from that of Silicon Valley. Today, Sprout is a $6.6

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Startup Communities Are Up To The Entrepreneurs

Feld Thoughts

It’s part of a series they are doing titled The Next Silicon Valley. In Kansas City you bought a house and handed it over to some programmers. I was interviewed recently in MIT Technology Review in an article titled It’s Up to You, Entrepreneurs. Does anyone really think in those time scales? What’s the idea?

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Weekend Reading on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

The first was The Making of Silicon Valley: A One Hundred Year Renaissance. This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.”

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The Board Operating System

Feld Thoughts

In the comments to my post yesterday titled The Religion of Silicon Valley , Rosey commented that the choice of metaphor could be “ operating system ” instead of religion. Can you, for example, take the SV’s operating system and drag and drop it into Boulder or Kansas City?

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Your city doesn’t have a startup community? Start one!

The Next Web

You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community. Here are two great examples: There’s No Place Like Home: Kansas City showed commitment to fostering an entrepreneurial environment by dubbing itself “ America’s Most Entrepreneurial City.”

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

Valuations are higher in Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach, New York and the North Carolina corridor than in Oklahoma City, Kansas City or Miami. For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5 The Method should allow for this.