Community Voices with Techstars | Chris Heivly: Building and maintaining thriving ecosystems
Join us for the second event in the ‘Community Voices by Techstars’ series; exclusively for community leaders and facilitators.
Chris Heivly will talk about how to build and maintain thriving ecosystems and why startup communities matter.
Chris is one of the leading experts on launching startups and has been dubbed the “Startup Whisperer.” He co-founded MapQuest, is an angel investor, ran a corporate venture fund and 2 micro venture funds (directed over $75M) and was most recently SVP Innovation with Techstars. Chris just released his new book, The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide for founders, investors and economic development leaders to better accelerate their ecosystem.
Chris is a passionate and experienced community builder and long time supporter of the Techstars community network.