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High-Growth Firms (or scaleups) have been proven to drive economic growth by academics, because these firms are responsible for a disproportionate number of jobs and revenue in their communities. It ...
The belief that people follow jobs dominated economic development until the emergence of the knowledge based economy in the late 1990s. Today, it is often argued that highly ...
Steve Jobs famously said that building a company is so hard that “if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.” In fact, to this day, it remains a ...
Tim Gurner, an Australian real estate mogul, recently claimed that millennials struggle financially because they spend their time eating avocado toast instead of working. Are young people really ...
Five years ago, The Economist published an article called European Entrepreneurs – Les Misérables, arguing that the continent suffered from a chronic failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurship. In it, ...
The Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) studies accelerators around the world. The objective behind this remarkably comprehensive global data effort is to keep track of the growing number of ...
What keeps Nigerian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from growing faster? This blog has already covered research on some of the external factors, such as Nigeria’s poor tech infrastructure and often inadequate ...
High growth companies might be the superstars of the business world but they represent only a small portion of the companies in the economy. Most businesses either cannot ...
American Dreamers says: Very insightful article. This can help out all aspiring ...
