Launching KYCombinator!

After a few years, living in KY, building a startup in KY, and getting to know the KY ecosystem, I really want to see this community grow. Likewise, in talking to many of you, we can all agree that Kentucky can do better! We all want more startups, more successful startups, more successful startups moving faster, and more successful startups moving faster with big exits.

To do this, the answer is not more venture capital.

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All right with that out of the way, I will say capital is a problem but not the main problem (nor is it a problem KYCombinator looks to solve).

We have to work with what we have, and we’re starting KYCombinator as an experiment with the thesis is to foster better, faster, stronger startups by:

Treating Startups as the customer, not the product

We’ll be constantly asking you “how can we help?” and “what can we do better?” Fill out our help form below

Leveraging Existing Networks - It takes a village

We’ll advertise, organize and gather groups to go to events. Let’s get a group of us to Rally 2025, SXSW 2025. Who’s going to StartupCincy? Let’s go! Tell us if you need a ride or can carpool here. ← link for ride share (and free tickets).

Also there is:
Sept 25th - Startup Week Louisville
Sept 25th - 5:30pm - Network N’Chill @ West 6th
Sept 26th - 5pm - Poker + Networking Night @ Story

Have an event you want to share? Fill out our event form

Building Talent Network Density / Building Community

You’ll hear me refer to “the Dutch model”. During the 15th and 16th century the Dutch became a world power despite having high competition and poor resources. They were better able to organize around the resources they had (they were the first to organize a stock exchange among other financial innovations).

In a similar fashion, we can do is organize our existing talent such that if you need a lawyer, engineer, accountant, designer etc…it should be easier to connect and get to the next milestone. Or conversely (and what I found) is that it’s easier to connect with someone in San Francisco than with someone in St. Matthews…

Tell us more about you and help us build a network