Community is fundamental to having successful startups in your region Clark Dever, Senior Product Manager Techstars Part 1

Techstars is a a globally-renowned seed accelerator that helps to catalyse founders, early-stage companies and support organisations to create a more dynamic and vibrant startup community. Part of what Techstars do is community building but how is this implemented? Ronan talks to Clark Dever, Senior Product Manager at Techstars about this and more.
Clark talks about his background, the startup community in Buffalo, blockchain, ecosystem development, the pandemic, give first, the Bridge app, and his goal of introducing 1000 people in a year.

More about Clark Dever:

He is a data driven, process-oriented, and customer-focused senior IT and operations management executive with 15+ years of technical experience and unique understanding of business management building high performance teams utilising process orientation for repeatable success. As a strategic systems thinker and resourceful problem solver, He possess an innate ability to drive process design / implementation, full stack Web development, and personnel management and development.

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