Small Business Economics

It's become an article of faith that American entrepreneurship is in trouble. The problems are many: lack of capital, too few entrepreneurial immigrants, excessive regulation, an aging population, slowing population growth, and rising student debt. But while experts across the country debate the causes and propose solutions, Scott Shane explains that the data just do not fit. Dismantling each of the most widely accepted theories in turn, he persuasively demonstrates that - while an evolving market is changing the nature of most startups - entrepreneurship is actually alive and well.

Innovate!: How Great Companies Get Started in Terrible Times is first and foremost a source of true inspiration based on history. But it goes much further than that. It captures the lessons of these great innovative individuals and companies that began in the worst economic times, identifying the philosohies, strategies, and essential keys to success during your own challenging economic times.

Creating the Millionaires Table has become a global phenom. What started out as Creating the Millionaires Table Workshops has given birth to Creating The Millionaires Table University Lab that offers entrepreneurs and businesses a learning path to get on the road to becoming a millionaire. Statics show that today's millionaires wasn't born into their wealth, they were learned into their wealth.

Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of the public knows they even exist; and for those who are aware of them, as well as even those who seek grants from them, their internal workings remain a complete mystery

Silicon Valley is imperializing the planet. With nearly bottomless supplies of cash and ambition, a small group of companies have been gradually seizing symbolic and practical civic leadership in America and worldwide. But Silicon Valley does not answer to the electorate; nor have they been voted into office. And the perils of their influence are only now making themselves known.

Journalist and Professor Susanne Althoff investigates the obstacles women and nonbinary entrepreneurs - especially those of color - face when launching, funding, and growing their companies, obstacles that persist because the current start-up world was engineered by and for White men. Through interviews with more than a hundred founders across the country and in all industries, Althoff paints a picture of an entrepreneurial system rife with bias and discrimination, where women receive less than three percent of this country's venture capital.

Transformative Markets is a book about a better, healthier, more prosperous future for all. Its premise is that the markets we use every day must become powerhouses for driving innovative and sustainable goods and services. Perhaps no time in history have we faced a reckoning like we face today. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the fragility of the global markets and the razor’s edge of basic survival far too many people live on every day.

Are you one of millions of people losing regular income? Do you need to start earning money from home and spending it wisely? Do you want to know why most of the 57 million US freelancers do not want to return to nine-to-five jobs? Have you ever dreamed to become a successful entrepreneur? Online livelihoods are a growing industry (15 percent in 2019), and in this audiobook, I’ll show you how you can create a sustainable income by working online and save thousands a year.

Ein neues Land - das klingt wie eine Verheißung. Tatsächlich ist es längst da, dieses neue Land, nur muss es endlich sichtbar werden. Verena Pausder entwirft in ihrem Buch eine faszinierende Skizze der Zukunft, mutig und konsequent. Es ist der Entwurf eines Landes, das nicht mehr auf den Wohlstand der Vergangenheit setzt, sondern mit neuen Technologien, neuen Lebensentwürfen - und vor allem neuen Ideen das Leben von uns allen verändern wird.

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Just as your power bill continues to rise, the sun also rises. Why are we letting a renewable resource that beams down on us each day go to waste? Solar energy is no longer a distant dream of the future. It is a real, viable option for America’s power needs, and T.J. Kanczuzewski of Inovateus Solar is mapping out a path for energy independence for anyone looking for clean, renewable power.

One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy” - one that provides neither the guarantee of steady hours nor benefits - emerged out of the digital era and has revolutionized the way we do business. High-profile tech start-ups such as Uber and Airbnb are constantly making headlines for the disruption they cause to the industries they overturn. But what are the effects of this disruption, from Wall Street down to Main Street? What challenges do employees and job seekers face at every level of professional experience?

Here is a treasure in the history of the procapitalist novel, the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt. He is a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as possible until he unleashes a plan that has been years in the making: he uses his extraordinary entrepreneurial talent to acquire control of a failing railroad.

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry. In this provocative book, Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, calls for a revolution in health care to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices.

This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom.

Are you thinking about starting a business but are confused by the taxes? Do you already own a business and need to know the tax repercussions of having employees versus outsourcing to contractors? Are you confused on depreciation and how to use it to your tax advantage? Not sure which accounting software to use? Do you need an accountant or can you do your taxes yourself? Find the answers to these questions and more!

America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays; rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy. Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society's welfare-state programs.

Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World argues that today's emergent technology is about more than new and cool toys. Jeffrey Tucker, CLO of Liberty.me and Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, argues that peer-to-peer technology is forging a new and brighter social, economic, and political order.

Would you like to make money quickly from home? Do you want to know why most of the 57 million US freelancers do not want to return to nine-to-five jobs? Have you ever dreamed to become a successful entrepreneur? I have had the same dreams as you have, and before this current crisis, I made that leap to start my own online business.

Descubra un análisis exhaustivo y profundamente informado sobre el papel crucial de las mujeres en el panorama emprendedor global. Este libro explora la importancia vital del emprendimiento femenino para la innovación económica y el crecimiento sostenible, contextualizando las tendencias globales y regionales que impulsan el aumento significativo de startups lideradas por mujeres.