Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Authors xxiii
1 Bigger, Better, Faster, Cheaper 1 Why Entrepreneurship Is More Vibrant and Sustained in the United States Than Elsewhere
2 Gorillas and Guerillas 23 How Start-ups and Established Companies Make Each Other Better
3 European and Colonial Foundations 43 Where America Got Its Crazy Ideas About Property Rights and the Right to Compete
4 Upstart Nation 63 How the Bickering New States Created a Constitution of Competing Interests
5 Building the Entrepreneurial Republic 81 How America Balanced the Race to Get Ahead with the Desire to Stay There
6 The Evolution from Small Business to Big 103 How Upstarts Challenged Incumbents to Create the First Unicorns
7 The Age and Aging of Incumbents 125 What Happens When Giants Fall Asleep
8 The Entrepreneurial Revolution 147 It’s Cool to Get Rich, Man
9 The Inflection Point? 169 Avoiding Pitfalls in Tackling Social Issues
10 Maintaining the Entrepreneurial Advantage 189 Pursuing Shared Prosperity Without Killing the Goose
Index 207