Silesian startup ecosystem: unicorns, where are you?
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Silesian startup ecosystem - full of potential, yet not very effective yet. My view on why it is hard to copy Western patterns and see it fly in southern Poland.
It's been three weeks since co.brick released the report: "Preliminary diagnosis of the Silesian startup system" (can be downloaded here). The report was discussed with representatives of the ecosystem, mostly representing technology clusters and local government. Therefore it was discussed mostly from that angle, but how about the local founders? I think that their perspective was missing and in this post, I will try to highlight some of the challenges they are facing.
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