ICYMI: A Q&A with KA on the Future of IA
In case you missed it, ARK Challenge mentor and IA consultant Kristian Andersen is the focus of this week's Innovate space in Arkansas Business.
Andersen discusses the role of IA and the future of tech-based entrepreneurship in Arkansas.
Here's KA on the resources provided by IA and what was available to techpreneurs prior to the organization's 2007 launch:
What IA did was provide the critical framework by which all these questions could be resolved. IA put them through a boot camp, put the tough questions to them and helped them answer those questions, good or bad.
The only thing IA demanded in payment was commitment. If you’d do those three things, IA would meet you with open arms and march you into the promised land. It would step into other vacuums that weren’t necessarily part of its mandate and focus on the three pillars of building a startup ecosystem: talent, capital and infrastructure.
It was the one organization that recognized good ideas and simply asked, “What do you need? Just let us know how we can help.” Without IA, there’s no Gravity Ventures. That’s a fact.
Good stuff. Full story here.