My first bit of advice: find a friendly entrepreneur who has raised money and ask for their deck.
Hipsters and eco-friendly entrepreneurs may be opening more farms in the Hudson Valley, but starting a slaughterhouse doesn't have quite the same appeal, leaving a gap now that so many of the bigger slaughterhouses in the area have been forced out of business by tightening regulations and slim profit margins.
Sir Richard Branson, the publicity-friendly entrepreneur behind Virgin Group, has used his relationships in rural Ulusabe, South Africa, where he runs a safari lodge, to start an AIDS treatment center.
"Personally, I'll vote Sarkozy," he adds, inspecting the laces on a black latex umbrella designed for Jean-Paul Gaultier, "because he's the most friendly to entrepreneurs".
The fibers are tough, flexible and environmentally friendly, and entrepreneurs and scientists envision them woven into a host of products: spider silk sutures, sweaters or even footbridges.
This is a group of friendly, young entrepreneurs, started by Bryn Carey.
Boulder, Colorado Boulder has the distinction of not only being friendly for entrepreneurs but being a friendly city for millennials.
Its newest partnership as a Trustee for Kiva allows Thrive to expand its offerings to HEC participants, and makes Helena an environment that is friendly to entrepreneurs and innovators.
In order to maintain an innovation-friendly environment, entrepreneurs have to encourage experimentation.
F. orbes Global has compiled its own list of countries that are friendliest to entrepreneurs (see table).
Phrases like "founder-friendly," "former entrepreneurs" and "value-add" started appearing years ago.
