Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship. Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer.
During last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama challenged the Nation to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build our competition to win the future. A critical ingredient in this endeavor is the creative spirit of the American entrepreneur that featured prominently in the President’s Strategy for American Innovation – a framework for long-term economic growth and sustainable job creation. Today, President Obama celebrated the launch of Startup America, a national (public/private) campaign to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship across all corners of the country, and the formation of the Startup America Partnership to catalyze private support for entrepreneurial ecosystems. To kick-start the campaign, the Obama Administration announced 27 public and private commitments organized across five key goals: 1.
Startup America. On Monday , the White House announced Startup America.
The CTO of US, Aneesh Chopra, blogged about it on Techcrunch. My friend Brad Feld was there and blogged about it. I have no involvement with Startup America, at least yet. Startup America Partnership. On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership.
As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network, an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.
By the way, I think it is awesomely cool that the CTO of the United States blogs on TechCrunch! Over the past eighteen months I’ve gotten to know a number of people in the executive brand of our government, especially at the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council. Fortunately, the White House listened to a number of smart people, including the amazing folks at the Kauffman Foundation.