In this episode, our host, Plamen Ivanov, welcomes Norman Musengimana, the Business Development Manager of Kingston Economic Development Corporation, to discuss best practices for building a startup ecosystem in a small city. The Canadian city of Kingston, with a population of less than 500,000, serves as an inspiring example, demonstrating how such challenges can be overcome to rank your city in the top 15% of 1,310 startup ecosystems.

StartupBlink is the startup ecosystem map and research center, working with more than 100 government entities. Its global startup ecosystem map has hundreds of thousands of registered startups,