When the sun set Friday night in San Antonio, a group of dedicated entrepreneurs and entrepreneur wannabes gathered to create new companies during a 54 hour period as part of San Antonio Startup Weekend. By Sunday morning, about a dozen people had dropped out. They either left because their idea wasn’t picked as a project […]
SXSW panelists advise how to foster entrepreneurial communities
March 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
BY SUSAN LAHEY Special contributor to Silicon Hills News Startups in Austin may forget how good they’ve got it. A SXSW panel Sunday called “How to Build Entrepreneurship Communities” explored strategies used by other places—Los Angeles, Omaha Nebraska, New York City—to build communities for startups. In many places, key players don’t know one another or […]