{"id":581,"date":"2009-03-23T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2009-03-23T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:17:30","slug":"econmists-special-report-on-global-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/03\/23\/econmists-special-report-on-global-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist&#8217;s Special Report on Global Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist&#8217;s special report on entrepreneurship is well worth a read.\u00a0 Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>entrepreneurialism needs to be rethought: in almost all instances it involves not creative destruction but creative creation<\/li>\n<li>the report uses (entrepreneur)\u00a0 to mean somebody who offers an innovative solution to a (frequently unrecognised) problem<\/li>\n<li>its not all youthful techies &#8211; Harland Sanders started franchising Kentucky Fried Chicken when he was 65. Gary Burrell was 52 when he left Allied Signal to start Garmin<\/li>\n<li>average entrepreneur was 39 when he or she started (their business) The number of founders over 50 was twice as large as that under 25.<\/li>\n<li>why have so many once-celebrated entrepreneurs turned out to be crooks?<\/li>\n<li>the entrepreneurial idea has gone mainstream, supported by political leaders on  the left as well as on the right<\/li>\n<li>the history of &#8230; start-ups reads like a roll-call of business  partnerships: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Apple), Bill Gates and Paul Allen  (Microsoft), Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google), Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin  Moskovitz and Chris Hughes (Facebook). Ben and Jerry\u2019s was formed when two  childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, got together to start an  ice-cream business (they wanted to go into the bagel business but could not  raise the cash). Richard Branson (Virgin) relied heavily on his cousin, Simon  Draper, as well as other partners.\u00a0 [WHY DON&#8217;T WE TEACH THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING DIVERSE TEAMS?]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/specialreports\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13216025\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/10\/olympic-gold-it-all-starts-with-a-dream\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Olympic Gold &#8211; It all starts with a dream&#8230;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Improving Employability&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/15\/improving-employability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Improving Employability&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/how-should-we-recognise-a-successful-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist&#8217;s special report on entrepreneurship is well worth a read.\u00a0 Some highlights: entrepreneurialism needs to be rethought: in almost all instances it involves not creative destruction but creative creation the report uses (entrepreneur)\u00a0 to mean somebody who offers an innovative solution to a (frequently unrecognised) problem its not all youthful techies &#8211; Harland Sanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[65,73,123,164,209],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-enterprise","category-entrepreneurship","category-management","tag-enterprise","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-management","tag-professional-development","tag-training","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}