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Follow on Google News | Startup Commons – New Open Ecosystem Tools for Build Startups and Startup EcosystemsStartup Commons launched its new startup community platform July 13in a Kauffman Foundation event in Boulder, Colorado. Startup Commons is a spin off from the Grow VC Group and it focuses to develop and offer tools for startup communities.
By: Grow VC Startup Commons is a spin off from the Grow VC Group (growvc.com) The startup and innovation ecosystem has evolved to demand more and more transparent, online and efficient tools. Startup Commons targets to offer free tools for startups and tools for organizations like incubators, accelerators, investors, and universities to build startup, expert and investor communities and follow startups progress and also match investors and startups. For example, experts can create standardized scorecards to evaluate startups, and these evaluations can be repeated regularly to measure progress and give practical targets for the startup team. “The need for transparent and measurable data in the startup ecosystem, as well as efficient and purposeful tools for those active in supporting our future growth companies, is abundantly clear. The existing landscape with all its isolated silos calls for bridges to be introduced between actors and those active in supporting innovation.” comments Valto Loikkanen from Startup Commons. Loikkanen continues “we have also seen the startup communities have limited budgets and that’s why we wanted to separate this part from our normal business operations in the Grow VC Group, and offer tools for communities, and also activate all parties together to further develop these tools.” Among other conclusions of the Kauffman event, the various members of the expert community, highlighted the need for more open data on startups’ Startup Commons welcomes everyone that shares our mission for connecting and catalyzing the innovation ecosystem. Startup Commons has its offices in San Francisco, California, and Helsinki, Finland. ABOUT STARTUP COMMONS Startup Commons is a global nonprofit initiative for developing startup ecosystem technology, shared knowledge and open data with a focus on making startup support and advisory more effective, cost efficient and transparent. Startup Commons does this by building on top of common infrastructure and terminology that helps identify and categorize startups by their growth potential and risk position. Startup Commons also supports organizations in their operational focus and provide free documentation, knowledge and related tools. End
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