The startup community way evolving an entrepreneurial ecosystem /
"The Startup Community Way is a sequel to Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. It pciks up where Startup Communities left off, looking at why makes startup communties thrive -- anywhere. The Startup Community Way advances the practice of startup community bui...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter One: Introduction
- The Next Generation
- Our Approach
- A Deeper Motivation
- The Boulder Thesis
- Startup Communities are Complex Adaptive Systems
- Where We Were in 2012
- Where We are Now in 2020
- Using Complexity Theory to Explain Startup Communities
- Evolving the Boulder Thesis to the Startup Community Way
- Part I: Introduction to Startup Communities
- Chapter Two: Why Startup Communities Exist
- What Entrepreneurs Do
- The External Environment
- Networks Over Hierarchies
- Networks of Trust
- Density and Agglomeration
- Quality of Place
- Chapter Three: The Actors
- Leaders, Feeders, and Instigators
- Actors
- Chapter Four: The Factors
- The Seven Capitals
- Factors
- Chapter Five: Startup Communities versus Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
- Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
- Alignment of Actors
- Different, but Mutually Reinforcing, Purpose
- Systems Within Systems
- Entrepreneurial Success
- Community/Ecosystem Fit
- Part II: Startup Communities as Complex Systems
- Chapter Six: Putting the System Back into Ecosystem
- Introduction to Systems
- The Whole System
- Simple, Complicated, and Complex Activities
- Moving from Activities to Systems
- Chapter Seven: Unpredictable Creativity
- Emergence
- Synergies and Nonlinearity
- Self-Organization
- Dynamism
- The Study of Interactions
- Chapter Eight: The Myth of Quantity
- More of Everything
- Outliers, Not Averages
- Entrepreneurial Recycling
- Leaders as Supernodes
- Chapter Nine: The Illusion Of Control
- Not Controllable
- Not Fully Knowable
- Feedbacks and Contagion
- Getting Unstuck
- Letting Go
- Chapter Ten: The Absence of a Blueprint
- Initial Conditions and Basins of Attraction
- The Narrative Fallacy
- Building on Strengths and Learning From Failures
- Cultivating Topophilia
- Chapter Eleven: The Measurement Trap
- The Fundamental Measurement Problem
- Actor and Factor Models: A Categorical Approach
- Standardized Metrics Models: A Comparative Approach
- Network Models: A Relational Approach
- Dynamic Models: An Evolutionary Approach
- Cultural-Social Models: A Behavioral Approach
- Logic Models: A Causal Approach
- Agent-Based Models: A Simulation Approach
- Applying the Different Models
- Part III: From the Boulder Thesis to the Startup Community Way
- Chapter Twelve: Simplifying Complexity
- The Boulder Thesis
- The Rainforest
- Applying Systems Thinking
- Looking Deeply
- Leverage Points
- Chapter Thirteen: Leadership is Key
- Be a Mentor
- Entrepreneurs as Role Models
- Key Leadership Characteristics
- Chapter Fourteen: Think Ingenerations
- Progress is Uneven and Often Feels Slow
- The Endless Long-Term Game
- Chapter Fifteen: Diversity is a Feature, not a Bug
- Cultivate Diversity
- Embracing Diversity
- Think Broadly about Entrepreneurship