Beware of Building a Startup Community Fire

by Chris Heivly, Entrepreneur in Residence at Techstars

For a brief, shining moment, I was in the fire suppression business, so I know a little about fire. Fire needs three elements: spark, material, and oxygen. That is why you keep your door closed when there is a fire outside the room — don’t feed it more oxygen.

When I meet with startup community enthusiasts, we a lot talk about the factors that seem to grow a community and the factors that seem to inhibit progress. If we could only do more of the right thing and less of the wrong things maybe we could build a little momentum.

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Originally published at www.techstars.com on January 8, 2019.