New Series, beginning soon, ‘Keeping Entrepreneurship Alive.’ The idea for this series came from a post to Brad Field’s blog Startup Revolution»Communities by Namek Zu’bi from Jordan, titled ‘Young Startup Communities: Beware of the Excitment Bubble.’
The seed for this Master Class came about from a request of the US Embassy Moscow to me in May 2010. The Embassy was asked by the the Governor of Novosibirsk, Russia to organize a conference on solutions the region could implement to stimulate more innovation, venture capital and entrepreneurship. My 60 minute presentation generated numerous questions that demonstrated the audience’s lack of understanding of what entrepreneurship is, how it and venture capital works, and actions government can implement to spur more innovation, technology creation and investment. John Hoxmeier,…
There is a shortage of experienced entrepreneurs, project managers & CEOs to lead tech start-ups on the path to commercialization in emerging market countries. In my 1st post on this subject, I summarized the issues of attracting senior staff to start-ups in the emerging markets. Perhaps the path forward for emerging markets is to replicate the job bank solution that some American university technology transfer offices implemented to solve the problem they experience; how attract and retain talent when one is…