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Re:Japan: To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs by jessriedel on Monday October 18, 2010 @05:01AM (#1802761)
OK, but the distribution of company sizes is a only a good metric if you take a dictionary definition of "entrepreneurship". Yes, you can call a country which has a bunch of old-fashioned mom-and-pop book stores "entrepreneurial" in the sense that the risk/reward of the businesses are concentrated (high variance) because they are individually owned. But that's not the disruptive, innovative entrepreneurship that interests HNers. I think there's a broad range of HN-style entrepreneurship that shouldn't be characterized as shoot-for-the-moon but would not at all be measured by distribution of company size.
Re:Japan: To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs by stretchwithme on Monday October 18, 2010 @05:22AM (#1802791)
yeah, its disruption that creates wealth, not doing things the way they've always been done. Its not the scale of an enterprise or even growth in the number of employees.