how startup ecosystems affect your startup more than you know
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A talk I gave to at a Startup Chile meetup to people from Santiago's startup system about different ecosystems around the world, namelyTRANSCRIPT
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