Now there are several hundred incubators, each offering entrepreneurs some combination of office space, accounting and legal services, and other components of "instant corporate infrastructure".
"The government is offering entrepreneurs the chance to return their money from noncriminal sources, to let it work within the country and to now start a new, honest life," the chairman of Kazakhstan's National Bank, Grigoriy Marchenko, said.
One component of this programme, Creativeworks London, is doing some really simple stuff like offering entrepreneurs short-term placements in university research departments and academic researchers equivalent placements in companies.
At the same time as offering entrepreneurs more opportunities, he argues, the Chinese government is saying: "Don't mess with us".
I think we can change the "norm" by offering entrepreneurs a better alternative.
The management advice venture capitalists are now offering entrepreneurs is to be like Steve.
The Founder Institute was announced back in March 2009, offering entrepreneurs and very early stage startups an environment designed to help foster their growth and education.
Think of betaworks Studios as a membership club for builders, offering entrepreneurs, artists, enginneers/developers, and creatives the space to work on their projects and get to know one another.
A new website (or Chrome extension, if you prefer) called Panda is offering entrepreneurs, developers and designers an easy way to keep up with industry news and inspiration from a variety of sources in one interface.
"AT&T stores are a convenient retail destination for purchasing Square Card Readers, offering entrepreneurs the ability to purchase all of the devices they need to run their business in one place," said Jeffrey Kolovson, head of Retail Distribution at Square, in a release.
