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Growing Galway's Startup Community
1. The document discusses growing Galway's startup community by learning from the successful Boulder, Colorado ecosystem and applying similar principles. 2. These principles include entrepreneurs leading the community long-term, being inclusive to all, and engaging the entire entrepreneurial stack through continual activities. 3. It outlines Galway's participants and some initial activities, and notes new coworking spaces being developed to support the community, including the PorterShed accelerator. Building a truly vibrant ecosystem will require long-term commitment and participation beyond just websites.
Growing Galway's Startup Community
- 1. Growing Galway’s Startup Community @JohnBreslin @Tech_Innovate@NUIGalway @PorterShed @GalwayCity @StartupGalway Guillom at commons.wikimedia
- 2. We learned from... •“Startup Communities” by Brad Feld • All about the Boulder, CO ecosystem – Slightly larger than Galway, 100k people – One of most entrepreneurial cities in US – I was there two weeks ago… alecperkins at flickr
- 3. The Boulder Thesis 1.Entrepreneurs must lead the startup community 2. The leaders must have a long-term commitment 3. The startup community must be inclusive of anyone who wants to participate in it 4. The startup community must have continual activities that engage the entire entrepreneurial stack Molas at commons.wikimedia
- 4. Participants Entrepreneurs Government Universities Investors Mentors Service Providers Large Companies Leadersand Feeders HM Marsh at British Library's Picturing Canada
- 5. Activities and events •Office Hours: officehours.ie • Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup: Startup Galway Tech Meetup • Boulder StartupDigest: Galway StartupDigest • Startup Weekend (three so far in Galway) • Boulder Beta: Demo Bar / Galway Beta • Boulder Open Coffee Club: Galway Open Coffee (needs reboot) • Ignite Boulder: Ignite Galway (needs reboot) • CU New Venture Challenge: ? • Boulder Startup Week: ? • Entrepreneurs Foundation of CO: ? • Young Entrepreneurs Organization: ? Geraldshields11 at commons.wikimedia
- 6. Startup Galway • StartupGalway Tech Meetups – Pat Phelan, Dermot Berkery, Declan Ganley, Iseult Ward, Paul Kenny, Christopher Byrne, Sean O’Sullivan, Siobhan Maughan, Bob Rosenberg, Gareth Keane, Mareese Keane • Startup Galway Tech Workshops • Startup Galway Pitching Meetups Me
- 7. New spaces inGalway • SuperPixel Labs coworking spaces • Bank of Ireland Workbench coworking space • Bank of Ireland startlab • Galway City Innovation District – PorterShed coworking space (2016) – PorterShed accelerator (2017) flynn_nrg at flickr
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- 9. NUI Galway • EntrepreneurshipSociety • Blackstone LaunchPad – Supporting undergraduate entrepreneurship • BioInnovate, TechInnovate, more… toms at flickr
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- 11. Tech ecosystems Me atbit.ly/galwaytechmap
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- 15. Let’s build it! •Our Startup Galway website tagline is “building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Galway” • Building a website is not enough – Build it and they won’t necessarily come • We need life in the ecosystem, through commitment, participation, and continual activities Mayqel at commons.wikimedia