Entrepreneurial Communities Must Be Led By Entrepreneurs

Following is the video (see original post) along with my notes. Four key principles of entrepreneurial communities – led by entrepreneurs – 20 year view from today – engage the entire entrepreneurial stack – continually get fresh blood into the system briefly focus on the first – entrepreneurial communities have to be led by entrepreneurs entrepreneurial communities have leaders and feeders feeders include everyone that does things that are inputs into the entrepreneurial community – lawyers – accountants – angel investors – venture capitalists – government leaders are the entrepreneurs –
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How Do You Catalyze A Region’s Entrepreneurship?

I have thought a lot about the issue of how to stimulate a region’s entrepreneurship over the years. Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. It is no longer Silicon Valley’s exclusive domain. So, there is no real reason why places like Dublin or Kolkata cannot create significant entrepreneurial energ
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Rebuilding America’s Job Machine – BusinessWeek

Now many states face vast budget shortfalls and must choose between protecting public-private R&D programs that could create jobs in the long term and slashing public education and health benefits. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, for instance, has proposed cutting $35 million for a bioscience initiative and shutting an agency that offered financial and managerial help to promising tech companies. Indiana plans to slash $20 million for life sciences research and development, while budget cuts are forcing the Maryland Technology Development Corp. to cut spending in programs that help c
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