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Black Entrepreneurship In The United States

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurs have had a torrid time of 2020, with the coronavirus bringing a great many to the point of extinction as their cash flow rapidly dried up. Entrepreneurs are also crucial to the economic recovery after the pandemic, and it’s vital that the entrepreneurial world is able to call upon talent from all quarters.

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The Gig Economy Acts As A Stepping Stone Into Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Of course, correlation does not mean causation, but the researchers believe that gig work may allow budding entrepreneurs to earn a side income while they work on their new venture, which allows them to bring in some cash during the inevitably lean early days of their business.

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The Real Solution Is Growth

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have focused on the debt ceiling , the recent credit rating downgrade , unemployment , and the other thorny fiscal challenges facing the United States. We should not take our eye off the really important ball: economic growth and the innovation process that underpins it. Though the U.S. This is what the U.S.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

Everybody talks about Silicon Valley being this bunch of entrepreneurs who created the computer industry in their garages. This was a bunch of entrepreneurs who gathered data either in their basements or in some subdivision of their office, and invented the idea of the economy. What effect does it have if we innovate?