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"I worked with Startup Commons and found the entire experience to be of enormous value. Their team led a group of senior executives through a two day workshop intended to map out a startup ecosystem. I would highly recommend the process to anyone looking to develop a startup community from a running start!"
- Jeremy Laurin, CEO, ventureLAB |
Case Studies
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Brazilian Startup Ecosystem Development
"Our goal is to make an accurate ecosystem diagnosis to define a strategy for startups development. We understand that the promotion of startups and of digital transformation is the next revolution in the agricultural sector. " The principal goal of this project is to map the existing startups in the country that are focused on agriculture to get the “big picture” of how the entire ecosystem works. Mapping a startup ecosystem is more than just create a good map to show who is who in one city or region. It's a crucial work at different levels and in this post we shared time ago you can have more details about that. The first step has taken place already with the aim to level the knowledge about startup ecosystem development of the participants: the Regional Administrations of the National Rural Apprenticeship Service (Senar) and the Agriculture and Livestock Federations of Bahia, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Rondônia. Continue reading... |
Europe iEER is an Interreg Europe funded flagship project with a budget of 2,3 MEUR bringing together 10 regions around Europe with varying ecosystem profiles and maturity levels. Initiated by a group of regions conferred with the European Entrepreneurial Region Award, in past two years and involving more than 600 ecosystem key actors in these regions, iEER have been defining smart paths and solutions to boost regional entrepreneurship ecosystems which supporting new and early stage entrepreneurs. Since last year, Startup Commons have taken active part in iEER ecosystem peer reviews, learning camps and among other things, contributed startup ecosystem development framework for mapping and highlight the importance of active and ongoing KPI measurement activities, as well as taken active part in helping to designing more standardised transferability model for sharing ecosystem best practices. Continue reading... |
Malaysia Startup Commons was invited to host a workshop at MaGIC on building digitally connected and data-driven startup ecosystem. The workshop supported the mission to catalyze the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Malaysia by introducing key stakeholders of ecosystem development to the framework targeting various activities and measuring the impact of these activities, and also providing better understanding of the relations between different areas. "The workshop participants found useful insights on the architecture of startup ecosystem around the world, that will be useful when building similar ecosystem for Malaysia. On the other note, participants learned on designing program and platform that is data and KPI driven, allowing us to achieve result with higher effectiveness." - MaGIC Continue reading... |
Ireland Startup Commons was invited by Startup Ireland for a week long tour, to facilitate different breakout sessions and workshop to help accelerate the momentum towards the 2020 goals of becoming a global startup hub by 2020. Theme of Startup Gathering 2015 tour, was about getting the fundamentals in place to build towards the shared vision. Startup Ireland is a private & public initiative of the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs 2015, supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, and by Bank of Ireland. Continue reading... Download Final Report
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Canada City of Barrie: Making The Transition from Entrepreneurship To Startup Ecosystem. The City of Barrie has a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem background with key players like Invest Barrie, Henry Bernick Entrepreneurship Centre at Georgian College or VentureLAB. Its target is to make the transition from entrepreneurship to startup ecosystem and wants to encourage technology entrepreneurs to start and grow global businesses that will create more jobs, boost Barrie’s economy, strengthen global connections and make the city a more desirable place to live, work and visit. Barrie’s tech startup ecosystem is in the very early stages of development and they face challenges like lack of volume factor, limited access to investment, key services and activities, as well as a framework in place to break with silo mentality and implement a holistic approach that can bring more connectivity, measurement and benchmarking to its startup ecosystem. Continue reading... |
Vietnam Startup Commons team, was selected to carry out a national pilot project to maintain a holistic picture of the constantly developing and evolving ecosystem and measure the results of different actions and sub projects and to share these openly for the benefit of everyone in the ecosystem. Digital online services and solutions play a key role in scaling knowledge sharing and training functions, as well as to increase reach, accessibility and transparency of many of these service functions. Several actors within the ecosystem have identified online solutions as important element to bring reach, efficiency and scale to their services and for most basic online tools, like newsletters, event management, community management, application management, CRM etc. are crucial part of their basic operations. At the same time new talent, potential innovative startups, business angels, mentors, etc. are expecting to get all relevant information online and on time. Continue reading... |
Macedonia Assist in designing the process to collect all relevant data for Macedonian Startup Ecosystem. Research Startup Macedonia plans to undertake, including questions regarding Historical data – the origin of the company & organization (needs & problem they wanted to solve) and previous activities (ex, number of startups mentored, and the corresponding results). Actual data – current challenges (current opinion of the startup scene, how are they pivoting from the original idea and why). Future plans – expectations for change and activities they are trying to implement, sustainability and business model changes. Continue reading... |
Vietnam To kick off Vietnam startup ecosystem development at national level, the Vietnam National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development (NATEC) organized TECHFEST 2015, an event for innovative startups and key stakeholders of the Vietnam startup ecosystem. Startup Commons was invited to host a full day workshop for key stakeholders of national and key cities startup ecosystems with a target of building mutual alignment and shared vision for Vietnam startup ecosystem. |
