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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Similar topics at:  Creating A Startup Culture, Economic Development  entrepreneurial clusters, 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 Streetline Inc. has been selling its parking-sensor technology for only a year and it has just 30 employees, but International Business Machines Corp. is depending on it and hundreds of young start-ups like it to reach ambitious financial targets. A parking-guide application from Streetline, one of several young start-ups leveraging relationships with IBM. By 2015, IBM expects to add about $30 billion to its 2010 revenue of $99.9 billion, a challenging goal considering it grew its annual sales by around $10 billion over the past decade. To get there it is relying on relationships with ventu We’re helping technology startups around the world incubate ideas and drive innovation forward. Microsoft® Startup Zone provides essential resources Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the location will house the first city-sponsored “business incubator” for start-up companies. It’s part of a 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 Tools for Business provides local, state, federal and best-of-the-web information and resources to help businesses grow. Some highlights include: JumpStart funds high-growth businesses and ideas, works with their founders to develop the businesses into venture-ready entities and simultaneously The Angel Capital Education Foundation provides a list of resources for entrepreneurs and angels. Most of these are Venture Forum or Venture Network The National Association of Seed and Venture Funds is an organization of innovation capital leaders: private, public and non-profit organizations com |
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