This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
Entrepreneurship is so trying because it makes us work against the forces of nature and all probability to succeed. Entrepreneurship is about being defiant, working against nature’s call to disorder, entropy. It’s not easy, you don’t get something from nothing by doing nothing.
Wouldn’t it be great to have all the money and power to start whatever you wanted? Would you love to have all the resources and none of the worries, you could do really innovative things, but you most likely wouldn’t. With position and power comes a certain amount of complacency and constraints, and the temptation […]
According to recent Yahoo polls over 72% of American adults have considered starting their own business. That is some 107 million individuals (217 million US adults * 68.6% with internet access * 72%), however, there less than a 0.5% conversion rate per year from those who desire to start their own businesses to those that […]