It all started in 2006. The idea was born.
It started with just a simple class David Brown and David Cohen lead in hopes to help other entrepreneurs scale their business.
In 2007, Andrew Hyde started the very first Start-Up Weekend. Start-up weekend is a heightened environment for entrepreneurs to come together, idealize, and create solutions to problems in the world through businesses.
As they continued to grow, so did the Startup Weekend, and ultimately their funds came in to create Ventures and Accelerators to help new businesses get on their feet.
Diversity and inclusion is one of the largest pieces of Techstars– “Our mission is to foster inclusion and diversity throughout our entrepreneurial ecosystem. We break down barriers to entrepreneurship worldwide by collaborating with nonprofit organizations, corporations, and individuals in a variety of ways.” This allows them to promote and encourage diversity in ideas and problems that are around the world. If we, as entrepreneurs, don’t seek out different perspectives, cultures, and societies, then we will be extremely narrow minded in seeing the problems of the world. This then causes us to overlook the current needs that will be the most beneficial.
Their slogan is
Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.
The word I want to focus on is “network” it is a program that provides opportunities to entrepreneurs to create relationships with other like minded and motivated people. Just in the weekend I attended this year in Pittsburgh, I was able to get insight and inspiration from mentors and other people there. It was also an awesome time to hear about others ideas in order to help shape yours. Ultimately, the relationships built and networking done creates a web of motivated, encouraging people that will be able to utilize each other to create an incredible world.
Though people don’t like to admit it, a super large part of the business world is about the connections you have. Networking is a huge part of making a business successful. Techstar is a great idea because it helps with one of the hard and most awkward parts of starting a new business.
That sounds like a great business to be a part of. Putting people together and putting them together in an enviroment of connection sounds extremely helpful. I bet Techstar has given many entrepreneurs the connections that they need.
Networking is a large part of the business world and it is very important to learn how to network in the most efficient way. It gives so many opportunities and it is also exciting to meet new people who have the same mission as yourself. I think that this is such a great idea! Great post!