how startup ecosystems affect your startup more than you know

How ecosystems affect your startup more than you know

• Silicon Valley (1) • Singapore (7) • Santiago (12)

An Introduction

• Silicon Valley in 2007

• Lean Startup Workshops

• Ran an incubator (Singapore)

• Economist / Marketer / Programmer (trying)

Connect people through activities

Scale of Ideas

What Currency

Startup Culture

Collaborative Community

What makes an eco-system

Making ideas bigger

1) Start with a human need. 2) Learn by making. 3) Participation as the goal.

Achieving Scale

Startups are too risky to just rely on your own team.

Who cares?

Scale of Ideas

What Currency

Startup Culture

Collaborative Community

What makes an eco-system

Geeks Rich

When you IPO, wear a suit

Scale of Ideas

What Currency Startup

Culture

Collaborative Community

What makes an eco-system

Separate the doers and the talkers in a startup scene

Doers Talkers

Credits: stgomakerspace.com

It’s important to have people share

experiences

http://bit.ly/give10x

Don’t make it ok to fail, celebrate failures.

Scale of Ideas

What Currency

Startup Culture

Collaborative Community

What makes an eco-system

Teach the students

@LeanSCL

I Lied

Startup ecosystems don’t matter as much.

It’s who you hang out with