4 ms·

Spot on. Draw those graphs for other cities and you can see how strong they are as a startup community and/or a specific tech sector. Every city needs a patien

Spot on. Draw those graphs for other cities and you can see how strong they are as a startup community and/or a specific tech sector. Every city needs a patient zero company- one with a sizable exit that lets their founders invest back+create new startups in the area. I've often professed that sadly Miami has no patient zero in the web startup space. Silicon Valley can probably be tied back all the way to fairchild semiconductor.

rjurney 17y ago
Thanks! There's a poster of the 'Fairchildren' that inspired this one - that shows the explosion of companies from Fairchild Semiconductor (if anyone has a link, plz post it). There is also a more comprehensive poster of Atlanta technology companies - showing how they all trace back to MSA/Scientific Atlanta: http://www.charbaxter.com/timeline/timeline_poster.pdf http://www.charbaxter.com/timeline/timeline_poster.pdf I think you could monitor these graphs as they change and new 'root nodes' emerge, and you could early detect cluster formation and direct stimulus accordingly.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  You're welcome! I would love to see a Grad research project and/or group of entrepreneur enthusiasts put a graph like this together for most startup cities. You could probably equate some mathematical values to it as well to give an overall "startup friendly" score. That might be hard to objectify though. Keeping it open is also key. Think about the past few years and what has happened. Within 2 months after selling Mint, Aaron Patzer already made his first angel investment.
  - rjurney 17y ago
    I'm hoping to construct one of these for Atlanta's clusters in finance and network hardware/software as well. In practice, they overlap a great deal. And I agree - I think that not only can you rate startup friendliness this way, but you can directly measure 'startup wealth' and detect cluster emergence.
    - celiadyer 17y ago
      Russell, this is an awesome and very thorough visualization and analysis of Atlanta's cluster of security-focused companies. Luckily for Atlanta, the emerging convergence of TV-mobile-computer to a single device presents a tremendous need for more and more security products. Too, the threat of Internet terrorism does the same. Great job. Fascinating visualization.

rjurney 17y ago

Thanks! There's a poster of the 'Fairchildren' that inspired this one - that shows the explosion of companies from Fairchild Semiconductor (if anyone has a link, plz post it). There is also a more comprehensive poster of Atlanta technology companies - showing how they all trace back to MSA/Scientific Atlanta: http://www.charbaxter.com/timeline/timeline_poster.pdf http://www.charbaxter.com/timeline/timeline_poster.pdf I think you could monitor these graphs as they change and new 'root nodes' emerge, and you could early detect cluster formation and direct stimulus accordingly.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
You're welcome! I would love to see a Grad research project and/or group of entrepreneur enthusiasts put a graph like this together for most startup cities. You could probably equate some mathematical values to it as well to give an overall "startup friendly" score. That might be hard to objectify though. Keeping it open is also key. Think about the past few years and what has happened. Within 2 months after selling Mint, Aaron Patzer already made his first angel investment.
- rjurney 17y ago
  I'm hoping to construct one of these for Atlanta's clusters in finance and network hardware/software as well. In practice, they overlap a great deal. And I agree - I think that not only can you rate startup friendliness this way, but you can directly measure 'startup wealth' and detect cluster emergence.
  - celiadyer 17y ago
    Russell, this is an awesome and very thorough visualization and analysis of Atlanta's cluster of security-focused companies. Luckily for Atlanta, the emerging convergence of TV-mobile-computer to a single device presents a tremendous need for more and more security products. Too, the threat of Internet terrorism does the same. Great job. Fascinating visualization.