EPISODE · Aug 30, 2022 · 37 MIN
Exploring Austin's Draper Startup House, a Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
from Austin Next · host Michael Scharf and Jason Scharf
The growth of our ecosystem and the critical mass of startups coming to Austin leads to unique opportunities to experiment with support infrastructure. One of those experiments is the Draper Startup House, a global entrepreneurship ecosystem including a network of co-living houses and a pre-seed “pop-up” accelerator program. Today we are joined by the co-founders Katie Russel and Daniel Wiegand to talk the mission, the importance of storytelling for startups, and why Austin.What's next Austin?Episode Links:Draper Startup House AcceleratorDraper Startup House Co-livingDraper Startup House LinkedInDraper Startup House InstagramDraper Startup House Twitter -------------------Austin Next Links: Website, X/Twitter, YouTube, LinkedInEcosystem Metacognition Substack
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The growth of our ecosystem and the critical mass of startups coming to Austin leads to unique opportunities to experiment with support infrastructure. One of those experiments is the Draper Startup House, a global entrepreneurship ecosystem including a network of co-living houses and a pre-seed “pop-up” accelerator program. Today we are joined by the co-founders Katie Russel and Daniel Wiegand to talk the mission, the importance of storytelling for startups, and why Austin.What's next Austin?Episode Links:Draper Startup House AcceleratorDraper Startup House Co-livingDraper Startup House LinkedInDraper Startup House InstagramDraper Startup House Twitter -------------------Austin Next Links: Website, X/Twitter, YouTube, LinkedInEcosystem Metacognition Substack
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