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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. If you had asked Singaporeans in 2010 to identify a successful local start-up, they might have paused for a few minutes before mentioning Creative Labs. “Why Singapore?

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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. You get this.