Dawn, your conclusion is absolutely correct. It is our culture of encouraging risk, of allowing failure, that makes us entrepreneurial in the USA.
MaryAnn, I'm also impressed with the amazing enterprises that grow in developing countries. Some people just have an attitude of work and success that helps them overcome.
Becky McCray
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Feb 19, 2009 14:32:07 PM
Why So Many Entrepeneurs?
I'm not sure that the US is THE most entrepreneurial country in the world. On my site BusinessPlanMaster.com I run a public service ad for Kiva, the non-profit groups that attracts loans for small business people worldwide. It never ceases to amaze me how truly diversified these businesses are, literally from owning one cow. Many underdeveloped countries just don't have the kind of small business structure that the US does; they depend on their own wits and work for survival. I have very high hopes for these countries, because that is essentially how the US started, with thousands of small independent farms and businesses. Now with so many people being laid off, it is refreshing to see that such a large percentage of them are returning to the entrepreneurial roots of our country.
Becky McCray of OK @ Feb 19, 2009 14:32:07 PM
MaryAnn Shank of CA @ Feb 15, 2009 01:22:30 AM
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