The Financial Crisis and Entrepreneurship
If anyone is looking for a silver lining, Michael Fitzgerald has a post called “Bad Times Are Good Times for Entrepreneurs,” and I couldn’t agree more. On September 14, 2001 – at the trough of the...
View ArticleRecession in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is often touted as an example of what is best about American capitalism – entrepreneurial, risk-taking, innovative, hard-working, and sometimes fabulously successful. Of course, it is...
View ArticleThanks, But We Can Take Care of Ourselves
Every once in a while, someone leaves a snarky comment on this blog along the lines of “Well, have you ever started your own company?” I usually leave them alone, although occasionally I can’t resist...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs and Risk
I planned to write about Malcolm Gladwell in this post a couple of days ago, but I had rambled on long enough, so I deferred it until later. Well, Felix Salmon beat me to the punch, which is all for...
View ArticleWho Built That?
By Simon Johnson Perhaps the biggest issue of this presidential election is the relationship between government and private business. President Obama recently offended some people by appearing to imply...
View ArticleThinking About Doing Business
By Simon Johnson In class #1 of Entrepreneurship without Borders (at MIT Sloan) we discussed attitudes towards starting a new business. In many countries, people want to become entrepreneurs, but they...
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