Dunbar’s number in global partnerships
Over 15 years ago, the Swedish Tax Agency rolled out a plan to reorganize its functions with a max 150 employees per office. Participants of the Hamburg-based social network XING…
News deserts and hyperlocal marketing
In NYC, high-information New Yorkers adapt "plaintive ignorance". The New York Times recently observed how some left-leaning, reflective New Yorkers vowed to break up with the news. One cited reason:…
City digital twins as a talking point
Source: https://hoodmaps.com/pittsburgh-neighborhood-map
Pittsburgh. Nvidia's first “AI Tech Community city”. A city full of entities that deploy artificial intelligence to solve hard challenges in the physical world. The second largest city in Pennsylvania…
Free meals+souvenirs in business networking
Business networking can feel a little awkward sometimes. You end up in these situations where it's all small talk and maybe some boring business talk. But, there's a way to…
Tapping into ~30,000 local zoning codes
As we discussed it here earlier, urban AI startups are making hyperlocal insights more accessible and enable faster data-informed decision making for entrepreneurs and city managers.In the meantime, urban experts…
Startup Mentor, 5,000 Cities: 2 Tracks
Here our founder explains the figure "5,000" in the company's name. Does 5,000 Cities need 5,000 mentors -- one for each city across the world that has at least 100,000…
Are you building an itinerant startup?
The Old Market in Omaha, Nebraska as of 2018. Source: https://unsplash.com/@amseaman
Depending on who is reading this -- you may be a local economic development officer in search of startups that exhibit the healthy signs of "staying power". Or you may…
Mastermind your startup across the world
Fort Worth, Texas. Source: https://unsplash.com/@lnicolern
A website promoting masterminds in California singles out three types of them: non-local, travel-to masterminds several times a yearweekly “accountability” group, monthly meetings with a full day hands-on mastermind organized…
Open-source innovation mapping is a failure
In front of the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. Source: https://unsplash.com/@ryha_
Mapping innovation hubs What value is there in trying to map every single hub on the planet? Don't get us wrong -- at 5,000 Cities we are all in favor…
Urban AI turns into a hyperlocal marketing tool
Tokyo. Source: https://unsplash.com/@jezar
How Urban ai helps boost hyperlocal marketing for startups City digital twins aren't sci-fi stuff anymore. Planning innovation hubs using urban AI is just one use case on a much…