October 2012
Beginner
202 pages
4h 40m
English
Content preview from Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
BOULDER STARTUP WEEK
Every startup community benefits from an events junkie. Andrew Hyde played this role for a number of years in Boulder and you can see his fingerprints on Ignite Boulder, Startup Weekend, and Boulder StartupDigest. Following is how Boulder Startup Week (http://startuprev.com/g3), another event Andrew co-founded, came into existence.
“You meet more people from Boulder at SXSW than you do in Boulder.” It seemed like the third year in a row that we were having this discussion. The tech community of Boulder was doubling in size every year and I was somehow smack in the middle of it. “We need a big conference” was the sentiment everyone seemed to agree on. Putting on a weeklong conference was a costly endeavor and neither I nor anyone else seemed to want to leave what they were doing to put their full-time effort into such an event. Underlying this was fear that, even if someone put the effort into putting this together, no one would show up.
The best stuff at conferences happens in hallways and the after-parties, so I thought about simply structuring an event as a giant hallway. We could just create a free, decentralized event—no badges, no specific venue, and no checking in. The entire event would be one big hallway through the Boulder startup community.
I talked to a few friends and within an hour we had chosen the name Boulder Startup Week, purchased a domain, tossed up a simple web page, and set up a few free tools for RSVPing. I e-mailed 20 friends around ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.