About two months ago we first met with our local Kalamazoo community to get a better understanding of what is going on in the Kalamazoo startup scene. Back then, we had little knowledge of entrepreneurship and startup communities but we were all eager and excited for the opportunity to go visit and meet with entrepreneurs, startups, venture capitalists, […]
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The Good life
In our quest to find the factors making start up ecosystems in Austin and Boulder thrive, I couldn’t help but notice how ‘quality of life’ kept on being mentioned by almost everyone we visited. Almost all the entrepreneurs who had moved to these areas said that the quality of life is what attracted them there.Which […]
Austin- Weird, Since always!
We finally made our way to Austin, Texas after spending five days in the mountainous and rocky Boulder, Colorado. As expected, it was a lot warmer in Austin and it felt good to know that we could finally wear shorts after some months of really cold weather in Michigan. Austin had a different feel to […]
Exploring Boulder…
After having visited Chicago, Detroit and Grand Rapids we finally made it to Boulder Colorado to examine the factors making the Boulder start up community thrive. Although we had a preset schedule to engage with individuals in various organizations that have fostered a culture that allows entrepreneurial and innovative activities to happen, we also had ‘flexible’ time […]
Book Discussion: Rise of the Creative Class
At the beginning of the course we each chose a book we were going to read, summarize as well as post a video about the main points. The three books we had to choose from were The Rainforest by Victor Hwang and Greg Horowitt, Startup Communities by Brad Feld and finally The Rise of the Creative Class […]