I always say that, when it comes to startup ecosystems, there’s the Bay Area, and then there’s practically everywhere else. That’s part of the motivation behind running experiments in the Portland startup community: those findings have the potential to be leveraged by other startup communities around the world — in a way that lessons from Silicon Valley never can.
I recently had the chance to sit down with the Startup Success podcast to chat about this. Below is a snippet from that conversation. If you’d like to hear more, it’s available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.