creating a startup community from scratch : the strasbourg case

Building a Startup Ecosystem « from scratch »in Strasbourg.

Hi, I am Stéphane Becker.

President Alsace DigitaleCEO, Founder Method In The Madness

Strasbourg272.000 inhabitants in the City

700k+ in the City Area

Houston, we’ve got a problem.

It was really from scratch

« The crisis that affects the rest of France won’t come into Elsass »

An Elsasser Senator, 1995

« Internet, it won’t work ! »

A director from a local cluster.

No previous « success » in IT.

The Master Plan

Attract, Crystalize, Develop

Attract

La Plage : Coworking space, around fifty people.

HackSXB : last Friday of each month, 5 to 20 people.

Attraction : Devoxx4Kids, 3 editions, around 20 people each time.

Crystalize

Startup Weekend : 3 editions, average 120 participants per edition.

DigitalHealthCamp : first edition, 200 people attending, cooperation with Hacking Health Montréal.

Develop

Strasbourg Startup, a dozen startup sharing informations. Snowballing in progress !

Future

French / German cooperation

Accelerator ?