How do great entrepreneurs learn the craft of entrepreneurship? A number of companies in Endeavor’s network have doubled their revenues and employment figures in the past two years. The analytics ...
On May 11, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightScaleups represent only 5 percent of Kenyan firms, but they have created 72 percent of new jobs in the past three years. As part of the series that included reports ...
On May 11, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightPublic support of entrepreneurship seems to be all the rage in policy circles, and yet in 2011 only about 8 percent of American businesses were new, compared to ...
On April 15, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightPolicymakers often wonder how they can better support entrepreneurs to spur local job creation in a recession. New research from Sweden offers a number of interesting ideas. Simon C. Parker ...
On April 14, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightMany of the greatest innovators in U.S. history have been immigrants, including Andrew Carnegie (Scotland) and Joseph Pulitzer (Hungary). Even today, foreign-born entrepreneurs, such as Google’s Sergey Brin (Russia), and Yahoo’s Jerry Yang ...
On April 13, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightWhat can explain the collapse of companies like Blockbuster or the cupcake maker Crumbs? Does technological change cause publicly traded companies to die faster? Does life expectancy depend ...
On April 12, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightSupporting entrepreneurship is on the minds of most economic development professionals, and rightfully so. Supporting the right kind of entrepreneurial activity can unlock the potential of local economies. ...
On April 12, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightMany people believe that economic crises are bad for entrepreneurs. A new study suggests that this may be wrong. According to a group of researchers from the Queensland ...
On March 30, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightIncreasing the availability of unemployment benefits can be a controversial policy. Yet, few policymakers have studied how initiatives like this can affect entrepreneurs in their countries. A recent ...
On March 30, 2015 / By Endeavor InsightPolicymakers who wish to benefit from the growth of scaleup companies need to understand them first. Scaleups – also known as high-growth firms or gazelles – are firms that ...
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