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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

What you want, however, is to increase the chance that such a founder winds up in your locale—that not only is it routine to find such a person, but there’s also a path for well meaning, aspirational folks just starting out their career to grow into that founder through learning, experience and mentorship.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. The first to spot the weakness were startup founders.