I'm getting ready to go overseas to teach, and I've spent the last week reviewing several countries' ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I've come to a couple of conclusions.
1) They sure killed a ton of trees
2) With one noticeable exception, governmental entrepreneurship policies and initiatives appear to be less than optimal, with capital deployed inefficiently (read "They would have done better throwing the money in the street.") Why? Because they haven't defined the basics:
What's a startup? Who's an entrepreneur? How do the ecosystems differ for each one? What's the role of public versus private funding?
To read the full, original article click on this link: What Every Government (Except One) Doesn't Get About Startups - Steve Blank - Business - The Atlantic
