community tools for more effective entrepreneurship support programs - created by westartup
DESCRIPTION
westartup is a set of tools designed to supercharge local efforts for building entrepreneurial communities. Some of my thinking on the subject can be found in an article I wrote for the Whiteboard magazine (How to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in 4 steps http://bit.ly/XwH0bS) and another for DataNews (Entrepreneurship: we're teaching it wrong http://bit.ly/1bDhZyZ). If you would like to discus - or evaluate the tools for your own region - please contact me at [email protected].TRANSCRIPT
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Community toolsfor more effective
entrepreneurship support programs
Leo Exter
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We help to answer a fundamental challenge:
getting more peopleto interact more often,
to learn more from each other… with low extra cost.
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Focus for most existing programs
westartup focus
Basic Training
Discovery
Incubation
Acceleration
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Use community power to - find
- motivate- educate
future entrepreneurs.
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Community site + real-world eventshelp you build large, effective local (globally connected)entrepreneurial community.
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Community site brings in new people for your community: entrepreneurs, mentors and investors.
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Community site improves projects through feedback(comments) from fellow entrepreneurs.
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Community site helps to find co-founders, create stronger (cross-functional) teams.
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Individual involvement
Online community, events like Startup Weekend
Introductory group sessions
In-depth group workshops
€ 20
€ 50
€ 500
Equity stake
Acceleration program
Incubation program
Combine site with events to identify and strengthen best teams
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Startups need time (and knowledge) to build their success stories.
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Mentors from the community happily share their knowledgeat events –if you only need to ask.
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Does it work?
Hell, yeah!* * This is how Davy would say it.
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Davy Kestens, 25.
Asked questions, joined workshops, got crowd feedback… and stopped his first business.
Then created amuch better one.
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Sparkcentralsells to Delta and Brussels Airlines.
20+ employees in Hasselt (BE) and San Francisco.
Raised over
$ 17.6 MLN.
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Building community is hard work: minimum 1/5 FTE
better yet a full-time person:superconnector.
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We provide the tools
• Customized website: your branding, your language, your community
• Six proven event formats
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Example from Lithuania:
- Lithuanian-language site
- Own branding
Over 760 members today.
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Example of a “vertical” site:
- Focus on digital health startups
- Own branding
Over 1200 members today.
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Stay in touch with your entire community with automated emails, invite them to your events.
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Keep track of interactions, measure success.
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Our simple, low-cost event formats:
- Pitch Night- Startup
BarCamp- Topical
workshops- Member Nights- Circle of Growth- Investor Match