The entrepreneurship support ecosystem in Upstate New York represents a significant public and private investment. But investment alone doesn't guarantee outcomes. Without coordination, standardization, and growth-stage support, even the most well-intentioned programs risk creating fragmentation rather than the cohesive infrastructure needed to compete with established innovation hubs.

Until these springs are properly anchored, Upstate NY's entrepreneurs will keep bouncing—sometimes finding support, sometimes falling through gaps, but rarely achieving the height needed to attract the serious capital that builds transformative companies.

The abundance of organizations isn't the problem. The lack of coordination and consistency is. It's time to anchor the trampoline properly, so Upstate's entrepreneurs can finally jump high enough to reach the moon.