Energizing Entrepreneurial Communities: A Pathway to Prosperity
Westartup: tools for building local entrepreneurial communities
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Making local entrepreneurial programs work better
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westartup is a set of tools designed to supercharge local efforts for building entrepreneurial communities. This is a brief intro presentation - contact [email protected] for more details.
Transcript of Westartup: tools for building local entrepreneurial communities
Making local entrepreneurial
programs work better
How do I get more return on investment in entrepreneurship support and incubation programs?
Why did China win 15 times more Olympic medals in 2012 than India?
They built an ecosystem that creates champions.
With westartup you can build an ecosystem that will create new and help grow existing startups.
Focus for most existing programs
westartup focus
Basic Trainin
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Discovery
Incubation
Acceleration
More projects
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Westartup website helps you identify interesting early-stage projects.
Unique events attract motivated people to the community.
Better projects
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Cross-skilled teams created through matchmaking on westartup website.
More than 500 co-founders already, new names every day.
Community members bring necessary knowledge.
Does it work?
Hell, yeah!
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Davy Kestens, 23.
Raised $ 1.1 MLN
Builds global business with 10 employees in Hasselt (BE) and San Francisco.
Next generation of startups is on its way.
Westartup provides a proven and cost-efficient methodology to help you create more entrepreneurs like Davy.
Example from Lithuania: - 3 weeks - 400+ people - 100+ projects
Our objective: putting you “into the spotlight”
How we work together
With the tools, you activate your local community.
We customize our toolkit to your needs –Quick Scan of your environment–Event planning and know-how–Website–Content strategy
It’s all about
hitting your targets
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So what are YOU after?
Growing number of successful startups?
New investment opportunities in your industry cluster?
