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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 when you’re building a startup community, bureaucracy isn’t the enemy.