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Entrepreneur magazine editor: ODU approach is unique
Entrepreneur magazine editor: ODU approach is unique

NORFOLK — How can Hampton Roads create an environment where entrepreneurship can thrive? When Amy Cosper, the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine, travels to speak at community functions, she gets that question a lot. She told a crowd of more than 200 people at Old Dominion University Sept. 25that leaders want to buy an entrepreneurial scene but they can't. Cities can support business accelerators, incubators and think tanks but ultimately, the entrepreneurs will define the community, she said. Cosper, who ran several financial magazines and covered communication satellites as a journalist, understands why people want entrepreneurs: "They're cool and...