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If I’ve learned anything in building startup communities, it’s this: The smallest actions are just as important as the largest.
Ecosystem building is messy. It’s nonlinear. It’s about relationships, not roadmaps.
A mission to ignite a positive social contagion will mean intentionally spreading behaviors, attitudes, or emotions that uplift and energize others to start new companies.
We can’t build a community of disruptors while asking everyone to conform to one system.
Chris Heivly, Entrepreneur in Residence for Startup Communities at Techstars, shares how holding onto authority too tightly stifles the growth of a startup community.
