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The SOBCon Manifesto

Terry Starbucker

SOBCon will actively nurture, educate, encourage, incubate, promote, network- and most of all, believes, owns, and lives the dream, so you can believe, own, and live it too. SOBCon can ignite that process as soon as the entrepreneurial urge strikes (like in college, for example), or any other place along the business cycle.

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VC Funding Can Be Bad For Your Start Up

Harvard Business Review

More than two generations ago, the venture capital community — VCs, business angels, incubators, and others — convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee Innosight’s nascent investment and incubation arm. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013.