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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting. About the Author.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. Granted, it''s not a perfect picture.

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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. Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. based WiFi service provider Ruckus Wireless snatched it up in 2013.