Scaffolding Solutions for an Innovation Driven Economy
A Venture Architect Firm
ENTREPRENEURSHIP LED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Start Co. is architecting solutions for driving more entrepreneurship led economic development. Through strategy, consulting, and dynamic programs, Start Co. supports startups, academia, economic development practitioners, and corporate and civic innovation pursuits. Start Co. is focused on aligning needed policies, capital structures, advocacy vehicles, and resource networks into a value delivery system for change.
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​Entrepreneurship-led economic development goes beyond job creation through the support of startup companies, it applies entrepreneurial building methods (iterative idea development & application) to civic, corporate, and academic economic pursuits. Open sourcing the innovation process across the actors in these economic pursuit areas creates greater opportunity for both incremental improvements and breakthrough change.
PARTNERS FOR EXPONENTIAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
MEMx (co-founded by Start Co. & EDGE) is an economic development cooperative strategically aligning partners within the Memphis region to implement an innovation driven economic model that creates sustained capital structures and new policy to grow jobs and talent at all stages of firm development. This work will join and provide capacity to economic development practitioners accelerating regional performance for a higher level of global competitiveness.​​
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DISCOVER our strategic framework for igniting more regional innovation
in the Memphis area.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP CITY
Start Co. authored a policy document with a goal to establish an entrepreneurship led economic development model joining existing business attraction and workforce efforts establishing an innovative model. Click the Policy Document to see this theory of change model posing needed policy and strategic interventions for greater net job creation.
AMERICA'S COMPETITIVENESS EXCHANGE
Memphis will host the next America’s Competitiveness Exchange May 10-16th, 2026 which will host 75 delegates from over 32 countries. This economic collaboration and tour of Memphis’ economic and cultural assets will build new partnerships and business transactions for years to come. Learn more about ACE HERE a partnership with the Organization of American States and the Economic Development Administration.