Community Leader

Apr 21, 2025

How to Fail at Ecosystem Building: Think Like a Valedictorian

Ecosystem building is messy. It’s nonlinear. It’s about relationships, not roadmaps.

Apr 14, 2025

Want a Stronger Startup Community? Infect It (In the Best Way)

A mission to ignite a positive social contagion will mean intentionally spreading behaviors, attitudes, or emotions that uplift and energize others to start new companies.

Apr 07, 2025

Memo to Ecosystem Builders: Rebels Make the Best Founders

We can’t build a community of disruptors while asking everyone to conform to one system.

Mar 24, 2025

Startup Communities: Where Everyone’s in Charge and Nothing Seems To Get Done

Chris Heivly, Entrepreneur in Residence for Startup Communities at Techstars, shares how holding onto authority too tightly stifles the growth of a startup community.

Mar 10, 2025

A Founder, an Investor, and an Ecosystem Leader Walk Into a Bar… And Actually Listen to Each Other

Chris Heivly, Entrepreneur in Residence for Startup Communities at Techstars, shares how when founders, investors, and community leaders approach each other with empathy, the startup ecosystem becomes more than just a network.