Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Great football players make great coaches or great coaches make great football players. I call these circular arguments but they are actually causality dilemma’s and they drive people crazy. In startup communities I believe the same argument or dilemma exists but with another anchor to the circle. Great companies. My circular argument goes like this: Great leaders build great companies which build great Communities which build great leaders which build great companies. For some of you this makes a lot of sense. You are probably the more vision & abstract type of thinker. For those of you who skew to a more precise and factual point-of-view, your head probably just blew up. “You want answers! I want the truth! You can’t handle the truth.” (Insert Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men or Rudy Giuliani, “truth is not truth”). Well I have a little surprise for you. While laying out this framework I have tricked you by getting you to eliminate the things that are not necessarily catalysts for a great startup community (space, capital, government programs or even Startup Weekends – all of which can help tremendously). The …