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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. " Ron [link] mikemyatt Hi Ron: Thanks for the comment. PS Love the Nimitz quote – one of my favorites. Our Freedom.

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Is Becoming Self-Employed All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

The Horizons Tracker

Not only are high profile entrepreneurs banging the drum for the lifestyle, but a vast swathe of accelerators and incubators have emerged to help startups to grow. Entrepreneurship has seldom been as sexy or as accessible as it is now. It’s a form of work the authors argue is five times more prevalent than gig work.

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

These hybrids pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities that generate revenues that help them sustain their operations. Frogtek and many other hybrids sell goods and services, and rely on revenues to sustain and scale their operations. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. Even smaller cities like Portland, Nashville, and Austin are attempting to curb their own deep-seated divides.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. Kendall Square and Silicon Valley are the best known, but hardly the only, places where we see rich interactions among serial entrepreneurs, VCs, law firms specializing in ventures, university technology transfer offices, and providers of physical incubator space.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Even better. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.