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Podcasts / Your Startup Community



Your Startup Community

with Chris Heivly

Your Startup Community podcast is for any startup community enthusiast hoping to grow your local ecosystem. Whether you are an economic development leader, entrepreneur, angel investor, or a corporate executive, this show has something for every ecosystem actor. Season One featured Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway, co-authors of The Startup Community Way, and Chris Heivly, former SVP of Ecosystem Development at Techstars as they dove into conversations with community builder guests. Season two takes a deeper dive into specific issues based on Chris's book, Build The Fort: The Startup Community Builder's Field Guide. Topics focus on ecosystem building in short, bite-sized episodes. We encourage questions from you and will add those in future episodes.

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About the Hosts

Chris Heivly

Chris is one of the nation’s leading experts on launching startups and has been dubbed the “Startup Whisperer.”  He cofounded MapQuest, is an angel investor, ran a corporate venture fund and 2 micro venture funds (directed over $75M), and is SVP Ecosystem Development with Techstars. Chris recently published his first book about starting anything called Build The Fort and is currently writing a book on Startup Community Building.

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