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City, Chamber present entrepreneurship ecosystem plan; identifies co-working and accelerator gaps
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City staff and the Round Rock Chamber presented an entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem assessment finding Round Rock ranks second in its local cluster and recommending partnerships, new community space, and marketing to increase seed funding and accelerators.
The city’s economic development staff and the Round Rock Chamber presented an entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem assessment that ranks Round Rock highly in the Austin-area cluster but identifies gaps in co-working space, accelerators, mentorship and seed funding.
Jordan (city economic development staff) introduced the Chamber’s consultant Lauren Posler, who summarized the assessment prepared with StartUp Link data and local outreach. Posler said Round Rock ranks number two in the Austin cluster and in the top 500 globally in the StartUp Link assessment; the report found strengths in software, data, hardware and IoT and identified opportunities in consumer packaged goods and life sciences as lab space becomes available through a Texas…
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