{"id":65920,"date":"2015-11-30T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=65920"},"modified":"2015-11-30T01:11:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:11:57","slug":"waterloo-as-a-startup-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/waterloo-as-a-startup-ecosystem","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo as a Startup Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/743\/23062567289_2325d32dd7_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"178\" \/>Waterloo has been dubbed a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.startupcompass.co\/waterloo-the-david-vs-goliath-of-startup-ecosystems\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;David vs. Goliath&#8221; startup ecosystem<\/a> by Silicon Valleuy research firm Compass, which released a comprehensive global report of startup hubs around the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its startup density is second only to Silicon Valley and a full 50% higher than its closest follower,&#8221; the report states.&#8221;[With a population of only half a million], how can it be so productive and effective at developing innovative technologies and startups?<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitech.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Communitech<\/a> broke down the 70-page Compass report to extract key takeaways. Check them out in the video and infographic below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xSFLdjEaEUQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/763\/22803307663_02f3e045de_o.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"3433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Infographic: Communitech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterloo has been dubbed a &#8220;David vs. Goliath&#8221; startup ecosystem by Silicon Valleuy research firm Compass, which released a comprehensive global report of startup hubs around the world. &#8220;Its startup density is second only to Silicon Valley and a full 50% higher than its closest follower,&#8221; the report states.&#8221;[With a population of only half a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":65922,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-65920","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/65920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/65920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65920"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=65920"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=65920"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=65920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}