Launchpad Republic

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

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• Espírito de iniciativa

American exceptionalism; American entrepreneurial spirit; American entrepreneurism; American venture capital; rise of china; geopolitics; entrepreneurial geopolitics; president xi; American dominance; America vs China; American economy