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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141393503321

Autore

Feld Brad

Titolo

Startup communities : building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in your city / / Brad Feld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012

ISBN

1-119-20445-3

1-283-60387-X

9786613916327

1-118-48331-6

1-118-48333-2

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Startup revolution

Disciplina

658.1/1

658.11

658.421

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship

New business enterprises - Environmental aspects

Communities - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The boulder startup communities -- Principles of a vibrant startup community -- Participants in a startup community -- Attributes of leadership in a startup community -- Classical problems -- Activities and events -- The power of accelerators -- University involvement -- Contrasts between entrepreneurs and government -- The power of the community -- Broadening a successful startup community -- Myths about startup communities -- Getting started -- About the author -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities ""Startup communities"" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small business energy. Startup Communities documents the buzz, strategy, long-term



perspective, and dynamics of building communities of entrepreneurs who can feed off of each other's talent, creativity, and support. Based on more than twenty years of Boulder-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist Brad Feld's ex