The startup community way evolving an entrepreneurial ecosystem /

The startup community way evolving an entrepreneurial ecosystem / Brad Feld, Ian Hathaway.

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"The Startup Community Way is a sequel to Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. It pciks up where Startup Communities left off, looking at why makes startup communties thrive -- anywhere. The Startup Community Way advances the practice of startup community bui...

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Online Access: Full Text (via O'Reilly/Safari)
Main Authors: Feld, Brad (Author), Hathaway, Ian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020.
Subjects:
Communities > Social aspects.
Entrepreneurship.
New business enterprises > Environmental aspects.
Communities > Social aspects
Entrepreneurship
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: Introduction
  • The Next Generation
  • Our Approach
  • A Deeper Motivation
  • The Boulder Thesis
  • Startup Communities are Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Where We Were in 2012
  • Where We are Now in 2020
  • Using Complexity Theory to Explain Startup Communities
  • Evolving the Boulder Thesis to the Startup Community Way
  • Part I: Introduction to Startup Communities
  • Chapter Two: Why Startup Communities Exist
  • What Entrepreneurs Do
  • The External Environment
  • Networks Over Hierarchies
  • Networks of Trust
  • Density and Agglomeration
  • Quality of Place
  • Chapter Three: The Actors
  • Leaders, Feeders, and Instigators
  • Actors
  • Chapter Four: The Factors
  • The Seven Capitals
  • Factors
  • Chapter Five: Startup Communities versus Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • Alignment of Actors
  • Different, but Mutually Reinforcing, Purpose
  • Systems Within Systems
  • Entrepreneurial Success
  • Community/Ecosystem Fit
  • Part II: Startup Communities as Complex Systems
  • Chapter Six: Putting the System Back into Ecosystem
  • Introduction to Systems
  • The Whole System
  • Simple, Complicated, and Complex Activities
  • Moving from Activities to Systems
  • Chapter Seven: Unpredictable Creativity
  • Emergence
  • Synergies and Nonlinearity
  • Self-Organization
  • Dynamism
  • The Study of Interactions
  • Chapter Eight: The Myth of Quantity
  • More of Everything
  • Outliers, Not Averages
  • Entrepreneurial Recycling
  • Leaders as Supernodes
  • Chapter Nine: The Illusion Of Control
  • Not Controllable
  • Not Fully Knowable
  • Feedbacks and Contagion
  • Getting Unstuck
  • Letting Go
  • Chapter Ten: The Absence of a Blueprint
  • Initial Conditions and Basins of Attraction
  • The Narrative Fallacy
  • Building on Strengths and Learning From Failures
  • Cultivating Topophilia
  • Chapter Eleven: The Measurement Trap
  • The Fundamental Measurement Problem
  • Actor and Factor Models: A Categorical Approach
  • Standardized Metrics Models: A Comparative Approach
  • Network Models: A Relational Approach
  • Dynamic Models: An Evolutionary Approach
  • Cultural-Social Models: A Behavioral Approach
  • Logic Models: A Causal Approach
  • Agent-Based Models: A Simulation Approach
  • Applying the Different Models
  • Part III: From the Boulder Thesis to the Startup Community Way
  • Chapter Twelve: Simplifying Complexity
  • The Boulder Thesis
  • The Rainforest
  • Applying Systems Thinking
  • Looking Deeply
  • Leverage Points
  • Chapter Thirteen: Leadership is Key
  • Be a Mentor
  • Entrepreneurs as Role Models
  • Key Leadership Characteristics
  • Chapter Fourteen: Think Ingenerations
  • Progress is Uneven and Often Feels Slow
  • The Endless Long-Term Game
  • Chapter Fifteen: Diversity is a Feature, not a Bug
  • Cultivate Diversity
  • Embracing Diversity
  • Think Broadly about Entrepreneurship

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