The Start-up Nation
Talk, panel and conversation with Saul Singer, a nice storyteller, author of the bestselling Start-Up Nation; an event organised by NUS Enterprise (NEC) and a panel moderated by Prof. Wong Poh-Kam. The reading of his book had been suggested last year by a friend of mine, Michael Bloch.
“Start-up Nation” addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel ’ a country of 7.5 million, only 64 years old, in a constant state of conflict since its founding, with no natural resources’produces more start-up companies than large nations like Japan, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? How is it that Israel has, per person, attracted over twice as much venture capital investment as the US and thirty times more than Europe? more
