The Mountain Venture Movement — In Infographic Form
It’s been just over a month since the Mountain Ventures Summit. In that short period, the prospect of building a venture community in a small community has become healthier than ever.
For those who missed it, for three days, over a hundred leaders and do-ers met to discuss the unique problems their communities face, and how to tackle them using the power of entrepreneurship. These are communities who have largely prospered as tourist destinations, but are now dealing with the externalities this has created for their citizens, including, but not limited to:
- Housing Crises
- Growing Income Inequality and Wage Disparity
- Limited Job Opportunities
- Environmental Degradation
- Loss of Community Identity
In an effort to create an economy that has a positive feedback cycle for its citizens and their quality of life, these towns met to find common ground in tackling these problems through entrepreneurship. That said, each town is unique, and these problems manifest in different ways — from Telluride’s physical limitations being in a tight box canyon, to Mammoth’s large weekend population due to its proximity to Los Angeles, to Jackson Hole’s growing daily commute.
So what does the mountain-venture movement look like? Who are these communities, and what are their respective entrepreneurial challenges?
Those are big, tough questions. But here are some awesome infographics to start…
The communities and their scores are based on a workshop completed at the summit by the community leaders themselves. These scores are informal, descriptive statistics, as judged by the community leaders present. However, this should be a good start in understanding what the mountain venture evolution really looks like.
There are many communities who were not present at the conference or did not complete this exercise, but absolutely deserve to be included.
Score Your Community: Download the scorecard and Startup Community Maturity Model from this Google Drive folder. Thank you to Marc Nager and Techstars for developing and sharing this resource.
If you would like to add your community to this infographic, please get in touch (jamie@kokopelli.vc).
Other great reflections on the conference:
