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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

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. Need more convincing that the US economy now features an innovation sector?

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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. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas. The conversations all went pretty much the same.