  We suggest the use of indicators to analyze entrepreneurial ecosystems, in a
way similar to ecological indicators: simple, measurable, and actionable
characteristics, used to convey relevant information to stakeholders and
policymakers. We define 3 possible such indicators: Fundraising Speed,
Acceleration and nth-year speed, all related to the ability of startups to
develop more or less rapidly in a given ecosystem. Results based on these 3
indicators for 6 prominent ecosystems (Berlin, Israel, London, New York, Paris,
Silicon Valley) exhibit markedly different situations and trajectories.
Altogether, they contribute to confirm that such indicators can help shed new
and interesting light on entrepreneurial ecosystems, to the benefit of
potentially more grounded policy decisions, and all the more so in otherwise
blurred and somewhat cacophonic environments.
