With the days getting shorter and the nights chillier, here are four great “fireplace” reads in the fourth economy. First up, two books from Daniel H. Pink – A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the …
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Rob May recently moved his startup, Backupify, to Boston. We’ve heard this story in Pittsburgh before, only this time the startup left Louisville, not Pittsburgh. We often get caught up in the “one that got away” — the idea of big city investors poaching our startups because they don’t like to travel, or small town entrepreneurs lured to the bright lights of big city opportunity.
This is not just another story of the small town losing a hard-earned startup to the big City. Actually, that is the story, but the lesson of Backupify and the insights from May are more important for the future of entrepreneurship in so-called second- and third- tier cities.
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As we struggle with the lingering effects of the recession, it’s hard to see the silver lining in our economic forecast. Despite the statistical end to the recession, many economists don’t believe that we will recover to 2007 employment levels for another two to three years. The big question is: where will this growth come from?
The short answer? Entrepreneurs.
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