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As busy entrepreneurs, how much time do we all really have every day? As a founder of a startup, you’re pulled in every direction. Despite this, I want to have the conversation on
why
you should help your startup community and the founder who’s a step or two behind you. I recently was asked to contribute to
CEO World Magazine
and wrote about why and how CEOs should get involved in their startup community.
Check out the piece
and let me know if it resonates.
In SD, there are a lot of examples of founders working on their company and simultaneously lending a hand in the ecosystem, like
Al Bsharah
of Seismic and
Mel Gordon
, CEO of Evergreen/TapHunter, who were early board members of
Startup San Diego
while running their respective startups. They both have also since joined
Tech Coast Angels
to invest locally, along with CPC Strategy (now
Tinuiti
) co-founder
Nii Ahene
.
Taylor Cavanaugh
, CEO of
PetDesk
, also recently joined the Startup SD board, and
Adam Harris
, CEO of
Cloudbeds
, and
Dena Marrinucci of Truvian, are
now on the
Connect
board.
This is not a guilt trip to any of my CEO friends! This is just a reminder that there’s a lot to gain from being involved in shaping the ecosystem around us, as I lay out in the above article. The question I often get next is, “where can I help?” I would say go somewhere that either helped or even more, didn’t help you, and lean in to make it better. There’s a great list of
resources
here that you can help you get more involved.
It’s up to us, no one else. Let’s go!
Cheers,
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Our team of
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TACOS & TECH PODCAST
Episode #40
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Pulkit Agrawal
, Founder & CEO
of
The 5th Ingredient.
Thanks to our partners at Cox Business for their support of our tech ecosystem.
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Teradata
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(UTC)
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