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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’ve read hundreds of books over my entrepreneurial career, a large number of them biographies and autobiographies on famous entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Ray Croc, Howard Schultz and many others. Reading all these books had a powerful cumulative effect that helped reprogram me into an unreasonable thinker.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

Both Sides of the Table

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth” Not exactly a simple message. Save your over-intellectualizing for your book club. Not something easily repeated in the press. What do they tend to like? Be that person.

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5 EO Australia Women Share How To Make Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Empower Girls To Reach Their Full Potential Entrepreneurship is a vital driver of innovation, job creation, and economic growth. Below, five women EO members share their thoughts on what it’s like to own their own business and how entrepreneurship can become a more inclusive space for women.

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Why Governments Should Invest in Their Diaspora Founders

David Teten VC

National and local governmental organizations who are interested in promoting economic growth and job creation , and particularly want to see a thriving tech ecosystem generating high-paid jobs. . In a very small number of geographies, there is no shortage of VC funds (NY, CA, Boston, Israel, Beijing).

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The Measurement Trap

Ian Hathaway

She’s an academic economist who rejects market orthodoxy and presents her arguments, persuasively, to the masses —a gift that many in the field of economics don’t possess.

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Innovation Policy and the Economy: Some New Research

EntreWorks Consulting

The Changing Structure of American Innovation: Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth (Arora, Belenzon, Pattaconi and Suh): This paper describes a critical divide in American innovation. Universities have stepped in to fill the research void, but this division does not bode well for economic growth.

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Governments should invest in their diaspora founders

TechCrunch

Then you have national and local governmental organizations interested in promoting economic growth and job creation. But in most cities in the world, there is only a relatively small number of VC funds. They particularly want to see a thriving tech ecosystem generating high-paid jobs. most countries excluding the U.S.,

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