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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

They believe that their findings add additional nuance to the current narrative that suggests that the decline in entrepreneurship is largely a consequence of higher startup costs, labor constraints, or even the aging population. This underlines the decline in entrepreneurship in medicine, for instance, with just 31.4% in 2012.

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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. Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole. Take newspapers.