Erik Ralston
Co-Founder at Fuse Accelerator
Tri-Cities
STARTUP
COMMUNITY
Give!
Before You Get
Principles
Entrepreneurs Must Lead
Leaders Must Have a Long-Term Commitment
The Community Must Be Inclusive
The Community Must Have Continual Activities
That Engage The Entire Entrepreneurial Stack
Build New Businesses
Local Equity
Local Control
Local Talent
That Sell Products and NOT Time
NOT...
Chamber of Commerce Sales Pitches
Eternal "Wantrepreneurship"
Selling Our Ideas to Vulture Capitalists
Groups
Many started since 2010 on Meetup.Com
Events
TriConf
Startup Weekend
Holiday Hackathon
Tri-Cities Startup Weekend
October 10th - 12th
tri-cities.startupweekend.org
Holiday Hackathon 2014
Early December
WHY?
20 YEARS
20 TEAMS/YEAR
$1,000,000,000
Annual Revenue
What Can
I Do?
The 5 Year
Bootstrap Experiment
1 In 10 Fail?!
Try 10 With a Team
There are more ideas than time
6 Months
On-the-Side
Ship or Die
If Success!
Run Your Business
Else
Try Again
?
TEAMS
SHARING
CONNECTIONS
Tri-Cities Startup Community
Tri-Cities Startup Community
By Erik Ralston
Tri-Cities Startup Community
A summary of Tri-Cities Startup Community, prepared for TriConf 2014
