Mistake #1: Thinking you need a college class to be an entrepreneur.
But even with that doubling, the actual share of college students declaring such a goal remains just 3.3 percent.....
Because the idiot college professors, even those in the Business department, are pushing students to “get a job with a good company.” Most of my professors knew nothing about business or running a business - all they cared about were grades, resumes, and “you need to do this if you want a job with a good company.” I’d tell them I don’t need a resume, a job = just over broke. I’m running my own business and they would still tell me I might change my mind. You don’t need college to be an entrepreneur but I still enjoyed going. However my professors were mainly clueless if you wanted to be an entrepreneur. Several years after I graduated they added a minor in entrepreneurship but I bet the people teaching that don’t know much about it and you could learn more on your own. I learned more about business reading books on my own and listening to tapes than in college.
Really? At best the Left sees entrepreneurs as tax-generating milk cows - at worst, as bad examples for the proletariat that must be crushed by government.
The so-called Right is little better, as entrepreneurs represent a threat to the ossified corporate entities that pay their campaign bills.
Had the author postulated that both sides of the political divide despise entrepreneurs with equal venom, he would have been closer to the truth.
YaGOTTAbekidding..................
Tax them.
“Permit them”.
License them.
“Impact study” them.
Tie the up in REGULATORY KNOTS.
EPA them.
TITLE NINE!
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(After all, they are likely to be REPUBLICANS, or even (HORRORS) CONSERVATIVES!!)
**Have We Reached Peak Entrepreneurship?**
No.
As long as motivated and enterprising people can work hard, entrepreneurship will never go out of style.
People will always find a way to make a buck, unless the country outlaws it.
And even then.
This must be a joke. Government exists to stamp out small business and entrepreneurs and use them as ATM machines. Local governments zone and tax people out of business. State governments tax small business, and federal government works with cronies to stamp out competition. Sure, if you hit the jackpot and make millions or billions the government loves you. But if you’re just Pablo’s Auto Repair Shop the government hates him. I’m self employed and my biggest challenges are governments.
> Politicians praise them, Hollywood lionizes them, venture capitalists chase them, universities foster them.
And then legislatures and administrative bureaucracies punish them, if they have the audacity to become profitable and create jobs.
Kind of like kids don’t read Aristotle anymore but they sure can deconstruct him. Everybody’s an analyst, but entrepreneurship is more about synthesis than analysis.
No, we have reached maximum stifling from regulation and stupidity.
You have to start small before you can grow big. And the small businesses are being forced out by paperwork. Gone are the days when you started building something in the garage and your wife handled the paperwork.
Now you need anywhere from two to four people to handle federal, state and local regulations. You need an accountant to handle the taxes, a lawyer to handle the legal issues and another person to file all the paperwork.
Any misstep, filing something late, turning down the wrong customer, cleaning out the wrong culvert to keep your parking lot from flooding will result in financial ruin and possibly jail time.
My deplorable son (ConservaTeen) runs a business (lawn mowing and pool cleaning). Mrs DeplorableAmerican1776 runs a home based business and I am on my 4th business (2 I closed, 1 sold).
Pelnty of democrats have zero interest in seeing more entrepreneurs.