Aug 12, 2021
Ryan and Josef talk about the importance of startup
communities and the importance of innovation in rural
communities, including St. Cloud, MN. Molly shares her
experience working with incubators, builders, and startups with
Singularity University and how that led to her position as the
Entrepreneur Ecosystem Development Lead at CORI, where she works
with communities to build the infrastructure necessary to help
entrepreneurs succeed. Molly paints a picture of a rural America in
decline, and explains the transformative value generated by tech
startups and productive tech startup ecosystems.
She explains that the key to any ecosystem is putting the
entrepreneur at the center, and calls out Red Wing as a startup
community that is really executing- as well as every
rural community they work with. "That's the stories that need
to be told. Those are the underdogs that we need to be uplifting.
Those are the people flying under the radar that I could talk about
all day." "We have so much more to go as a country in terms of
entrepreneurship, in terms of innovation than just what we see in
these five major metro areas."