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May 5, 2011 06:15 pm GMT

A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableI'm in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. They have had their successes; yet somehow all of the neurons don't yet seem to be firing are powerfully as they need to be. Their "patron companies" - Amazon & Microsoft - aren't yet turning into the next generation of fast-growth businesses. That's a problem.As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to "change the trajectory" for Seattle or for any regional market, really. It really wouldn't take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one.The truth is that only a few key motivated & talented players are ever needed to make extra-ordinary change in a country, a region or a company. Nelson Mandela. Steve Jobs. Sheryl Sandberg. Brad Feld. Ron Conway.The following post looks at what recipe would be needed to take the raw ingredients of Seattle and take it to the next level. It's a recipe for your community. It's a recipe for your company. Read on ...

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