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The Entrepreneur
by Robert RingerIt is the government's duty to provide for the general welfare . . . FALSE The growing gap between the rich and the poor proves that capitalism has failed . . . FALSE The government has the authority to redistribute wealth through regulations and taxes . . . FALSE All men are created equal. But not all taxpayers! Progressives, or Retrogressives, as #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Ringer calls those on the far left who are, in reality, against progress, believe in an all-powerful central government that has the authority to meddle in both the economy and in the lives of individual citizens. Retrogressives naively believe that the government has a moral obligation to "help" those in need, but nowhere in the Constitution is there an enumerated power to that effect. In a Retrogressive utopia, life is risk free for everyone. But a government that prevents its citizens from failing actually prohibits them from succeeding. So-called social programs, such as food stamps, the minimum wage, and draconian taxes are designed to redistribute wealth but are lethal to the very people whose success is most critical to this nation's prosperity: Entrepreneurs. In this provocative new book, Ringer examines what it takes for these unsung heroes to succeed in an environment that is increasingly hostile toward small businesses. Perhaps the most maligned and beleaguered individuals in the United States, Entrepreneurs are the easiest targets for the government's insatiable appetite to exercise control over the economy. Yet, left alone to do what they do best, Entrepreneurs are able to innovate better products and services than the government could ever hope to provide; create jobs; reinvest much of their profits into expanding their businesses; and, as a result, grow the economy, and thereby improve the lives of millions of people through the self-regulating "invisible hand" of the marketplace. The time has come for Americans to tell politicians they don't want any more quick fixes. What we need is for government to get out of the way and allow the Entrepreneur to move our country forward.
The Entrepreneur Equation: Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own Business
by Carol RothIt's time to drop the rose-colored glasses and face the facts: most new businesses fail, with often devastating consequences for the would-be entrepreneur. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY bestseller The Entrepreneur Equation helps you do the math before you set down the entrepreneurial path so that you can answer more than just "Could I be an entrepreneur?" but rather "Should I be an entrepreneur?". By understanding what it takes to build a valuable business as well as how to assess the risks and rewards of business ownership based on your personal circumstances, you can learn how to stack the odds of success in your favor and ultimately decide if business ownership is the best possible path for you, now or ever. Through illustrative examples and personalized exercises, tell-it-like-it-is Carol Roth helps you create and evaluate your own personal Entrepreneur Equation as you: Learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in today's competitive environment. Save money, time and effort by avoiding business ownership when the time isn't right for you. Identify and evaluate the risks and rewards of a new business based on your goals and circumstances. Evaluate whether your dreams are best served by a hobby, job or business. Gain the tools that you need to maximize your business success. The Entrepreneur Equation is essential reading for the aspiring entrepreneur. Before you invest your life savings, invest in this book!
The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Advisor
by Entrepreneur Media Inc.It2s like having a team of top business consultants on call 24 hours a day . . . but a whole lot cheaper. Each month for over 20 years, hundreds of thousands of enterprising individuals have turned to Entrepreneur Magazine for news on the latest business trends and expert tips on how to maximize the success of their ventures. Now from the experts at Entrepreneur, here is the ultimate guide to starting, managing, and growing a small business. Written to meet all the information needs of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and those thinking about going into business for themselves, this practical, user-friendly guide tells you everything you need to know about setting goals and objectives, assessing risk, finding the right location, financing, marketing, pricing, taxation, insurance, record keeping, personnel management, purchasing, inventory, time and stress management, legal matters, advertising, sales, obtaining expansion capital, and many other topics of vital importance to smart, enterprising businesspeople like you. Proven strategies, techniques, and expert tips on every aspect of starting, managing, and growing a small business. Defines all important terms and clearly explains difficult concepts in plain English. Packed with useful worksheets, checklists, sample forms, and other valuable business tools that you can put to work for you, today. Chapters include listings of trade associations, periodicals, on-line services, software, government agencies, and other valuable sources of business assistance and information. ENTREPRENEUR is the banner publication of the Entrepreneur Magazine Group. It has the largest newsstand circulation of any business monthly and has a total ABC audited circulation of 531,000. The Entrepreneur Magazine Group also publishes Business Start-Ups and Entrepreneur Mexico, and software that deals with business start-up management. Also available from the Entrepreneur Magazine library: Starting a Home-Based Business, Second Edition. Starting an Import/Export Business. Small Business Legal Guide. Making Money with Your Personal Computer.
The Entrepreneur in Microeconomic Theory: Disappearance and Explanaition
by Humberto BarretoThroughout the history of economic thought, the entrepreneur a wide variety of roles. Once cast as a fundamental agent in production, distribution and growth theories, he has now surprisingly disappeared from economic theory. This volume accounts for this disappearance, exploring how and why such a fundamental explanatory variable disappeared from economic theory. Barreto provides a concise review and classification of the many entrepreneurial theories put forward throughout the history of economic thought. The author illustrates that the decline of the entrepreneur in economic theory coincides with the rise of "the firm" as an organizing principle and considers how the replacement of the human element with a mechanistic one has led to disenchantment with microeconomic theory. This fascinating book will interest economists from a range of disciplines including the history of economic thought, microeconomics and entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneur in Rule-Based Economics
by Georg D. BlindThis volume brings together three areas of interest: the rule-based approach, the entrepreneur, and Japan as an empirical application. It highlights the advantages of the rule-based approach for economic analysis by linking different methodological underpinnings. Using these, the author exemplifies how rule-based economics allows a systematic analysis of the entrepreneur as the key figure in bringing about economic change and diversity. The book includes an empirical methodology for applied research in rule-based economics, which it puts to the test in an empirical study of entrepreneurship in contemporary Japan. The choice of entrepreneurship and Japan showcases the integrative power that rule-based economics brings to further breaking a theoretical deadlock and to analytically capturing a very particular economy investigated very little so far. By offering a body of new and original research, the monograph shows how the idea of entrepreneurship as a rule helps to resolve the Schumpeter-Kirzner divide and to develop an empirical approach to the determinants of entrepreneurial activity.
The Entrepreneur's Growth Startup Handbook
by David N. FeldmanAn accessible guide to handling the unforeseeable consequences of becoming an entrepreneur in today and tomorrow's economyThe spirit of an entrepreneur is often characterized as one of unbridled passion and a sense of fearlessness. But what about the consequences of choosing to become an entrepreneur? The occupational hazards associated with this endeavor range from maintaining focus, balancing work with your personal life, and finding good partners to burnout and boredom. Despite the abundance of entrepreneurial guides written, few focus on the essential aspect of dealing with the unexpected personal and professional costs of starting and financing a business. This new book will help you answer these tough questions.Engaging and informative, this book skillfully examines what usually goes wrong on the road to entrepreneurship, revealing what business owners regret and what you can do to address these issues. Along the way, it provides an overview of the personality traits and qualities that make success in entrepreneurship more likely, and also explores how the weight of wearing the entrepreneurial hat can affect you.Covers the seven principal obstacles that can arise at any level in the entrepreneurial gameFilled with the valuable insights of an author who has experience as an entrepreneur and as a corporate attorney representing hundreds of entrepreneurs over his twenty-six year legal careerTouches on issues associated with everything from the nerve-wrecking start-up phase to the disenchanted later stages when success does not necessarily guarantee personal or professional contentmentIf you're looking for a better way to manage and minimize some of the most prominent problems you'll face as an entrepreneur, look no further than this book.
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Achieving Financial Freedom
by Jay E. HochheiserThe financial landscape of the business world has changed forever. As a result, it has never been harder to be a successful entrepreneur than it is today. In a world where the entrepreneur must “adapt or die, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Achieving Financial Freedom will guide them toward making the right financial decisions to evolve and thrive—all in a straightforward, no-nonsense manner.
The Entrepreneur's Odyssey: A Novel Approach to Startup Success
by Andrew AckermanThe Entrepreneur’s Odyssey is an authentic window into what it really takes to turn an idea into a viable startup. It is both an essential how-to guide for would-be startup founders as well as an entertaining novel for the startup curious.This textbook-as-novel has fictional first-time entrepreneur Marcus Williams recount his journey from would-be founder with a half-formed idea to a funded startup. His mentor, Jason Murath, a seasoned angel investor, guides Marcus step by step through customer discovery, validating and refining the product, market sizing, and more, all the way through closing his first round of financing.There has never been a more fun – and effective! – way to learn how to build a startup.
The Entrepreneur's Paradox: How to Overcome the 16 Pitfalls Along the Startup Journey
by Curtis J. Morley&“They don&’t teach these principles in business school. These lessons can only come from the entrepreneurial book of life.&” —Kevin Cope, author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Seeing the Big Picture What is the &“entrepreneur&’s paradox&”? Curtis Morley explains that the exact qualities that aid an individual in founding a startup company—brilliance and expertise—are what prevent them from realizing expected success. What starts as freedom and financial independence turns into grueling hours, stress, bills, and ultimately failure. This is the paradox that is entrepreneurship. Morley is here to show startup businesspersons how to achieve the golden rule of successful entrepreneurs—5x results. That&’s achieving five dollars in revenue for every dollar spent on marketing, advertising, sales, and any other growth expenses—a goal he himself has achieved and exceeded. By coaching clients on the sixteen pitfalls faced by all startups, he has promoted entrepreneurship development in multiple industries, sharpened skills, and revealed the keys to superior, next-level growth. This guidebook contains all you need to conquer the entrepreneur&’s paradox and put yourself on a defined pathway to business success, while avoiding pitfalls like: · Climbing without a map · Building not selling · Losing sight of culture &“Shows prospective business men and women how to reach their goals while creating a launchpad for a business.&” —Daily Herald &“The playbook for startup success.&” —Sean Covey, president of FranklinCovey and coauthor of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller The 4 Disciplines of Execution
The Entrepreneur's Playbook: More than 100 Proven Strategies, Tips, and Techniques to Build a Radically Successful Business
by Paul B. Brown Leonard C. GreenBig new ideas rarely make great businesses . . . Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time . . . You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.Counterintuitive concepts like these have helped the world’s best entrepreneurs succeed. Yet most of us only learn them the hard way. Len Green, an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and business professor, shares inside secrets and proven tactics for launching a business. Based on his popular Ultimate Entrepreneurship course, the book explains how to:Locate sure-bet opportunities for improving products Get serious about positioning, distributing, and licensing Find funding Take calculated risks and minimize failure And much more.The Entrepreneur’s Playbook allows you to become a virtual student: dozens of exercises (which you can submit online for feedback) and hundreds of examples make the learning stick. Why stumble your way to possible failure when you can tap into the best ideas for making your venture work.
The Entrepreneur's Solution: The Modern Millionaire's Path to More Profit, Fans & Freedom
by Mel H. Abraham"The Entrepreneur&’s Solution" introduces the "Business Mastery Blueprint" and the concept of sustainable success---the new model for thriving in the twenty-first century, which replaces the old standard &“model of mediocrity.&” New-millennium companies are blazing a very different path to an achievable and sustainable future. But what is the mind-set behind the methodology? In these pages, the potential entrepreneurs learn exactly &“what it takes&” to live a rich life on every level. The "Nine Entrepreneurial Essentials" that make up the "Three Elements of the Entrepreneurial Mind-Set", from the moment they are put into practice, become a game changer in growing a business and a meaningful life.
The Entrepreneur's Toolkit: A Self Coaching Guide for Small Business
by Neil Phillips Lyn ChristianAre you an entrepreneur? Then this book may be the next critical step towards the success you want and deserve. While that statement may seem presumptuous, it should resonate with the entrepreneur in you. Even if this book isn't the missing ingredient, the innovative business owner and manager in you may still come to treasure it and continually refer back to it. The authors wrote this book for those free thinkers who constantly look for the edge that creates the success. .reviewsseries{font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;border:1px solid #dfdfdf;background-color: #efefef;clear:both;width:600px;padding:7px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:15px;float:left;}.scrollbox { position: relative; width: 560px; height: 186px; overflow: hidden; float: left;}.scrollprevious, .scrollnext { width: 18px; height: 167px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; float: left; margin: 0 4px 0 0; color: white; font-weight: bold; display: block; cursor: pointer; outline: none; }.scrollnext { margin: 0 0 0 0; }.scrollnext a{background: url("/mas_assets/scroll_right_hover.gif") 0 0 no-repeat;height:186px;width:18px;display:block;}.scrollnext a:hover {background-position: -18px 0;}.scrollprevious a{background: url("/mas_assets/scroll_left_hover.gif") 0 0 no-repeat;height:186px;width:18px;display:block;}.scrollprevious a:hover {background-position: -18px 0;}.scrollthumb { float: left; height: 280px; padding: 10px; width: 180px; }.scrollthumb h4 { margin: 10px 0; font-size: 12px; color: tomato; }.scrollthumb p { margin: 10px 0; font-size: 10px; }.box {background-color:#f5f5f5;border:0px solid #cfcfcf;display:block;float:left;height:184px !important;margin:0 2px 10px 1px !important;width:108px !important;padding: 0 !important;}.box a{font-size:10px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;}.box p{margin:0 0 7px 0;clear:both;}.box td{text-align:center;padding:0;}.box .thumb{border:1px solid #c1c1c1;margin:0px;padding:0;}.box table {margin: 2px !important;}
The Entrepreneur: 25 Golden Rules for the Global Business Manager
by William HeineckeWritten in a lively and practical style that will be of great interest to budding and blooming entrepreneurs. The rules covered in this book are applicable to any entrepreneur around the world.
The Entrepreneur: The Economic Function of Free Enterprise
by Dimitri Uzunidis Sophie BoutillierThis book presents the economic theories with regards to the entrepreneur of yesterday and those of more recent years, on which issue research has been developing exponentially since the last third of the 20th Century. Much of this book will be devoted to contemporary theories. This presentation of economic theories of the entrepreneur leads us to wonder about the structural development of the free enterprise system in the short and the long term. The proliferation of entrepreneurial initiatives leads in effect to a profound transformation of modes of production and work, for example under the current phenomenon of uberization economy.
The Entrepreneurial Arch
by Timothy L. FaleyAs the number of universities offering entrepreneurial programs continues to increase, there is a growing need for a suitable framework for the teaching of entrepreneurship beyond the operational side of the business and the preparation of a business plan. This book offers a fresh approach to entrepreneurship by teaching readers how to discover and create a new firm, or grow an existing one, starting from a firm's or team's capabilities. The core methodology is based on the 'entrepreneurial arch' which provides a more holistic view of entrepreneurship by dividing the business development process into six distinct segments. An important feature of this model is the inclusion of learning units focusing on opportunity identification, business design and risk reduction before the business planning stage is attempted. Illustrated with various real-world examples, this structured and concise book will appeal to students, as well as to practitioners looking to develop their entrepreneurial skills.
The Entrepreneurial Brain: How to Ride the Waves of Entrepreneurship and Live to Tell About It
by Jeff HaysFinally, a user&’s guide for people with entrepreneurial brains and those they work and live with.When your biggest superpower is also your most critical weakness, it helps to have a manual on how to control it. Entrepreneurs are creative, bold thinkers and risk-takers capable of great accomplishments. At the same time, for every success story, there is a counter story of an epic collapse caused by a lack of a moral compass, values, or proper guidance. Jeff Hays knows the highs and the lows having ridden that rollercoaster many times in his life and career and provides a much-needed user&’s manual for entrepreneurs everywhere and the people in their work and personal lives. Gain insights into the mindset entrepreneurs need to develop in order to survive. And when Hays says survive, he means it: Your money, your relationships, your sanity, and even your life are at stake if you don&’t come to understand why you are the way you are, and how to manage it.Learn specific business tools to enjoy even more success than you&’ve imagined. From real-world step by step instruction in how to raise money for your venture, to how to build a build an email list and market to that list, Hays shares hard won experience that isn&’t taught in any theoretical school.Increase your perspective on the common pitfalls you need to avoid. Hays has learned the pitfalls the hard way, letting his entrepreneurial brain drive him off a cliff over and over again. Failure has been one of his greatest teachers, showing him how to work with his brain and how to work with others.Access the wisdom and insights of mentors and other leaders. Throughout this groundbreaking book, Hays shares the transformational wisdom he learned from his own mentor along with insights and perspectives from a variety of industry leaders and influencers to help you experience all of the ups, and more, while protecting yourself against some of the downs.
The Entrepreneurial Discovery Process and Regional Development: New Knowledge Emergence, Conversion and Exploitation (Regions and Cities)
by Åge Mariussen Seija Virkkala Håkon Finne Tone Merethe AasenThere is a broad and long-standing debate on possible solutions to the regional vulnerabilities of globalisation. In 2014, the European Commission began implementing Smart Specialisation Strategy, a place-based strategy of growth, regional transformation and new industrial policy with collective entrepreneurial discovery processes (EDP) at its core. This volume approaches the mystery of entrepreneurial discovery; that is, how relevant knowledge is created, converted and shared in a process of discovery. These essays bring together scholars from economics, geography, sociology, organisation studies, innovation studies, and complexity theory, offering new approaches to overcome the limitations of place-based development and suggesting improved methods leading to growth.
The Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Italy: A Focus on Academic Spin-Offs
by Alessandra MicozziNew firm creation is one of the most important topics at economic, social and political level. The emergence of new ventures is central to economic adaptation and change and one of the major features associated with growth in employment and in sector productivity. Entrepreneurship is now at the centre of many policy questions related to science and technology, research and development, sustainability, poverty, human capital, employment, tangible and intangible resouces. This book provides a better understanding of the process for setting up new initiatives, analysing the several factors related to entrepreneurship dynamic. It specifically analyses the factors explaining the entrepreneurial rates in Italy and the differences in entrepreneurial dynamics in a sample of EU countries. This book shows that the entrepreneurial dynamics is very different across countries and to establish a policy to foster entrepreneurship, there is a need to investigate which factors drive the entrepreneurial process. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in Entrepreneurship, and it also offers interesting indications to policy makers. Stimulating innovative entrepreneurship is one of the highest priorities in the current economic debate, and is particularly important in countries like Italy, where economic growth is slow and youth unemployment rates are very high.
The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Global Perspective (Palgrave Studies in Entrepreneurship and Society)
by Zoltan J. Acs László Szerb Esteban LafuenteThis edited volume systematically demonstrates the evolution of research in entrepreneurial ecosystems and highlights its importance to policy. Presenting two particular aspects of research in entrepreneurial ecosystems, the book begins with chapters that analyse multi-country contexts before going on to explore the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. With state of the art research, this volume explores the economic, social, and policy approaches that characterize fruitful research on entrepreneurial ecosystems with economically meaningful implications for policy.Contributing to the rapidly expanding field of research, this is an insightful resource to students, researchers and policy makers interested in entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurial Edge: When Strategy Is Discovery
by Rita Gunther Mcgrath Ian MacmillanIn today's uncertain business environment, we no longer have the option of holding on to yesterday's business model. According to the authors, we must create entrepreneurial organizations that continuously come up with new models. This chapter summarizes some key guidelines for managing with an entrepreneurial mindset and emphasizes why practices such as reducing complexity and observing uncertainty to make things simple are so crucial. This chapter is excerpted from "The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty."
The Entrepreneurial Effect: Practical Ideas from Your Own Virtual Board of Advisors
by Donna Price Li Li Deborah Weinstein Andrew Moffat Terry Matthews Mike Gassewitz Tamas Michel Koplyay Jean-Pierre Levy-Mangin Denny Boyle Ray Novokowski Eli Fathi Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu Rob Ashe Adam Chowaniec Ken Wigglesworth Dave Curley Margo Crawford Peter Sommerer Pat DiPietro Nathan Rudyk Tony Bailetti Brian Hurley Jeffrey Dale Lance Laking Bernard Herscovich Bernie Ashe Debi Rosati Antoine Paquin Irving Ebert Bruce LazenbyThe Entrepreneurial Effect is a collection of advice articles by successful high technology entrepreneurs, based on their experiences. Every budding entrepreneur seems to imagine a series of lunch dates with the most successful entrepreneurs in technology and other sectors of the Ottawa area Silicon Valley north. What skills are seen as needed to be successful in starting, growing and managing technology-based business in the 21st century? Every business seems to have some technology base and every entrepreneur needs the skills, knowledge and experience detailed in these lessons from the most successful people in this area. Lessons include management, marketing, planning, people, sales, technology, public relations, financing, outsourcing, alliances, risk management, and many others. When you want to be the best, learn from the best, and this book is your opportunity with 32 of the best lessons in entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurial Effect: Waterloo
by Ted Hastings Robert Pavlis Feridun Hamdullahpur Dan Mathers Robert Tong Roger Subowius Jim Estill Dan Latendre Steven McCartney Iain Klugman Vita Gasima Carol Leaman Larry Borsato Steve Carkner Kevin Hood Rick Endrulat Randall Litchfield Tom Hunter Rod Foster Cameron Hay Josie Graham Mike Morrice Adam Zimmer William M. Tatham Ray DePaul Yvan Couture Andrew Maxwell Moren Lévesque Ann Zimmer Brydon Gilliss Dave Caputo Aurélien Leftick Harvey FinkelsteinEvery entrepreneur wants to know more and to able to do more, learning from those that have succeeded is one of the best ways to accomplish that. The entrepreneurs in this book discuss the skills needed to be successful in starting, growing and managing technology-based business in the 21st century. Lessons include being an entrepreneur, marketing, strategy & planning, people, sales, growth, technology, investors, financing, operations, corporate culture and a test of your entrepreneurial capability. When you want to be the best, learn from the best, and here is your opportunity with 25 of the best lessons in entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurial Engineer
by Michael B. Timmons Rhett L. Weiss Daniel P. Loucks John R. Callister James E. Timmons Michael B. Timmons Rhett L. Weiss Daniel P. Loucks John R. CallisterThe authors, educators and successful entrepreneurs, wrote this textbook with the goal of maximizing your chance of entrepreneurial success. It is designed to encourage those who want to start a business and those who have already begun. It includes guidance, instruction, and practical lessons for the prospective entrepreneur. The book focuses on early stage financing of a startup company, beginning with an emphasis on constructing an effective business plan, including writing techniques to help convey your message, and preparing solid financial statements. This "why" and "how" of writing a business plan is followed by recommendations on raising outside capital. Important topics include developing your marketing strategy, recruiting and managing creatives and managers, and retaining effective employees. Legal structures, negotiation strategies, and economic evaluation of opportunities are also discussed. The book concludes with a chapter on project management. The book includes many engineering economy topics, sufficient for those who will be taking the FE Exam.
The Entrepreneurial Humanities: The Crucial Role of the Humanities in Enterprise and the Economy
by Alain-Philippe DurandWith AI, cryptocurrency, and more in the news, it seems that being an entrepreneur means being in IT, but humanities graduates are launching new businesses every day, turning a profit and having social impact. This book explores how a humanities background can enable entrepreneurs to thrive. Across all levels of education, students are given the message that to change the world - or make money - the arts and humanities are not the subjects to study. At the same time, discussions of innovation and entrepreneurship highlight the importance of essential skills, such as critical thinking, storytelling, cultural awareness, and ethical decision-making. Here’s the disconnect: the subjects that help to develop these vital skills are derided at critical points in any aspiring entrepreneur’s education. This collection of perspectives from entrepreneurs in a range of fields and humanities educators illustrates what individuals, and the wider world, are missing when humanities are overlooked as a source of inspiration and success in business. Featuring a foreword by Sensemaking author Christian Madsbjerg, this is a thought-provoking guide for aspiring entrepreneurs in all sectors, and for educators, a window on the practical value of the humanities in an ever more mechanized world._
The Entrepreneurial Imperative
by Carl J. SchrammIn 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States to survive and continue to lead the world's economy, it is imperative we learn to understand and employ that secret. The secret that has led the American economy to become the world's strongest? Our unparalleled skill as entrepreneurs. As Schramm compellingly shows in this sweeping manifesto, entrepreneurship alone-;not anything else-;can give America the necessary leverage to remain an economic superpower. Not technology, since everyone now has the same technology, or access to it. Not education-;we are years behind other nations in this area. Not basic manufacturing, long since moved overseas from the United States. And not capital markets, now truly global entities. Drawing on detailed research conducted by the Kauffman Foundation and on his decades of experience as an entrepreneur himself and as a leader and mentor to other entrepreneurs, Schramm persuasively demonstrates in detail what this entrepreneurial imperative means for the way we run universities and foundations, lead companies, make personal job decisions, and even conduct our foreign affairs. The Entrepreneurial Imperative will change not only the way our government, corporations, and nonprofits operate, but also our day-to-day lives as working Americans.