With Greece's great economic crisis catapulting tourism onto centre stage, industry figures have spent much of the crisis devising ways of better showcasing the "Greek tourism product".
The theatre was born out of controversy following decades of debate over whether there was a place for a state-subsidised institution that would foster drama neglected by Britain's commercial stage industry.
The early-stage industry is not perfect, but is starting to look like a respectable crowd for founders.
It also doesn't hurt to have a deep-pocketed ally like Amazon in a fairly early-stage industry.
We will likely see a two-stage industry transition as we attempt to adopt bot technology into daily transactions.
Says Hirshland, "Much of the seed-stage industry has become more focused on early signs of traction, but we're really still betting on teams".
"The venture capital fundraising environment has settled into a 'new normal' which is characterized by a barbell structure of larger funds which are stage and industry agnostic on one end, and smaller, early-stage, industry or region-specific funds on the other," he noted in a statement, explaining the current landscape.
"The result," he continues, "is an investor base that is comfortable with gambling, that understands the risks involved and that can shift the mind-set from resources to some other early-stage industry, whether it be computers or electronics or biotech".
Renewable energy is still, in many ways, an early-stage industry with a significant amount of churning: new entrants, evolving incumbents, mergers, acquisitions and exits.
Though home staging seems very much like interior design, it isn't, said Meridith Baer, a grande dame of the home-staging industry who has worked with Kanye West, Bob Dylan and Harrison Ford.
