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How an Ecosystem Mindset Can Help People and Organizations Succeed

Harvard Business Review

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. You can stage hackathons where you try and get people to use your technology but break it or put it to uses you can’t think about, and then watch 48 hours later, watch what happens.

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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.