Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

MYTHS ABOUT STARTUP COMMUNITIES

I’m not the only person who is spending a lot of time thinking about startup communities these days. The Kauffman Foundation has dedicated significant energy to this effort because they view entrepreneurship as the key to future economic vitality in our country and around the world.

As a result, I’ve asked Paul Kedrosky, a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, to weigh in with some of the myths he regularly hears about startup communities. Although these myths are similar to some of the classical problems we discussed earlier, Paul brings a new perspective to the mix and hammers home a number of points made earlier.

We’ll begin with one of my favorite myths: “We Need to Be Like Silicon Valley.”