12 Tips To Building A Successful Startup Community Where You Live

Editor?s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at?GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at?Bothsidesofthetable In the first phase of the Internet - roughly from 1995-2005 it was difficult to build massive Internet-based companies outside of Silicon Valley. The big companies to be built and scaled were mostly infrastructure: databases, routers, browsers, spam filters, search engines and the like. Plus the obvious initial pioneers of the web like Yahoo!, eBay, Craigslist and so on. But the infrastructure is now in such a state the we're seeing the emergence of large tech businesses being built all across the United States including Gilt Groupe & Etsy in NYC, Living Social in DC, Groupon in Chicago, DemandMedia & Cornerstone OnDemand in LA. And many more. What does it take to build a successful entrepreneurial community? Can you build one locally? This post explores the 12 components of every successful startup city. Details after the jump.

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