Startups need visionary intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs, market analysts with foresight – and, of course, outstanding programmers. The skills that individuals bring to these fishbowls of innovation add up to nothing if the personalities don’t jibe with startup culture.

“You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated,” Foundry Group Managing Director and TechStars Co-Founder Brad Feld, said in a 2012 blog post.

We are examining tech startup culture from as many perspectives as possible because if you don’t understand it, you can’t successfully launch, fund, or scale startups.

As part of our startup culture coverage, we’re focusing on:

• The key ingredient of a successful startup culture, with comments from Richard Florida. Not that free snacks will hurt.

  

• A breakdown of the defining characteristics of key startup cultures across Canada.

  

• A view into one of the world’s biggest draws for “digital nomads”: The enchanting Indonesian island of Bali.

  

• A brief history of hacking, with comments from technology journalists Gabriella Coleman and Clive Thompson.

  

• Fail fast; fail often, they say. But the celebration of failure in tech startup cultures may have gone too far.

  

• Tech startups can drop the Silicon Valley-or-bust mentality. Every region’s startup culture has a set of unique characteristics that might be more appropriate for a particular innovation.

  

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