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For a Booming Economy, Bet on High Growth Firms, Not Small Businesses

Harvard Business Review

PM David Cameron , November 20, 2013. High growth firms are more likely to be in food services, real estate, construction, commerce, logistics and manufacturing than in ICT and life sciences. “Small business is the backbone of our economy.” President Barack Obama , August 17, 2010.

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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.