Entrepreneurs in SL

From Hiro Pendragon, a SL entrepreneur, on getting what he really wanted for Christmas last year - the opportunity to start a business:

I had a little money saved in the bank, I had done research on starting a business, and my 1-year strategy was essentially either (a) Being bought or merging with another company (b) Finding someone who knew how to properly run a business and add them to my team. I'm happy with the folks I wound up merging with.

The September PopSci.com article by Annalee Newitz includes this comment from Philip Rosedale:

Rosedale says the next frontier for SL is work, not play. In the past year, several companies have built replicas of their conference rooms in SL so that far-flung employees can meet and exchange information, and even collaboratively build prototypes of real-world projects

Electric Sheep's Forseti Svarog comments in Out to Pasture on the arrival in SL of KAWG&F, an accounting firm from Baltimore:

One of the reasons why Silicon Valley remains such a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity through good times and bad is because of the infrastructure that has grown up to support new ventures.... Small businesses within Second Life face challenges across the spectrum ..., and yet there is very little professional help out there for SL entrepreneurs to lean on.

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