Welcome to the Smart Startup English Podcast!
Our goal is to help startup professionals take their English from intermediate to advanced in just 10 minutes at a time. In each episode, we’ll talk about a topic related to the startup world, and we’ll learn some vocabulary that you can use to sound more natural in your day-to-day business interactions in English.
In our previous episode, we explained what tech parks are, how the whole concept started and what their role is in fostering innovation.
This episode is a follow up, but this time we’ll discuss tech parks from the perspective of a startup founder or CEO.
We’ll try to answer the question: should I move my startup to a tech park?
Before you listen to this episode, I want you to think about this question a bit. Can you think of any reasons why startups might want to move to a tech park?
In episode 23, we’ll talk in detail about five reasons why you might consider such a move: good amenities, industry connections, a well-qualified workforce, government support, and getting on the radar of investors.
We’ll also explain how some of these factors work in tech parks across Europe – WISTA (in Germany), Aerospace Valley (in France), and Amsterdam Science Park (in The Netherlands).
In episode 23, we’ll teach you 8 Business English terms you can use to talk about what makes a startup successful.
Here are a few of the expressions we use in this lesson:
- know-how
- idea validation
- seed capital
Here’s the episode audio.
Another episode we mention is Getting funding for your startup.
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Image: Mekel Park in Delft, The Netherlands (photo by Mickey Gast)
