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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

The author believes that while lower costs of capital would certainly help raise the entrepreneurship rate, it would be most beneficial to entrepreneurs with lower skills. This would have less of an impact on higher-skilled entrepreneurs, for whom the decline has been most pronounced.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. If it is positive, it’s thumbs up, if it’s negative, it’s thumbs down.