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Ecosystems for Change: Transferring social capital to the next generation

For our last interview of the season, we’re headed to Portland, Oregon, to chat with Rick Turoczy. As Silicon Florist and co-founder and general manager of the Portland Incubator Experiment, or PIE, Rick has been supporting founders in the Portland startup community for fifteen years. We talked about how you might plan for succession as a keystone in your community, how you transfer social capital, and how you might leverage your social capital to put the next generation of ecosystem builders in place. (Please, if you can, take a listen. Really interested in your thoughts and feedback.) Listen to the interview

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

"If you bet on documentation, the next stage in your company’s growth will greatly benefit from capturing these kernels of knowledge that would otherwise be lost in the ether. " (via @firstround)

review.firstround.comInvesting in Internal Documentation: A Brick-by-Brick Guide for StartupsDavid Nunez, an early hire at Stripe and Uber, shares his step-by-step playbook for establishing good internal documentation habits at your startup. He unpacks his tested tactics for creating a culture of documentation, setting the quality bar and keeping things organized.

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

"To win the soul of social life, we must learn to muzzle it again, across the globe, among billions of people. To speak less, to fewer people and less often—and for them to do the same to you…" – @ibogost

theatlantic.comThe Age of Social Media Is EndingIt never should have begun.

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