You would think if there were a group of U.S. companies that collectively employ 700,000 workers and achieved 30 percent job growth and 48 percent revenue growth between 2009 and 2011, investors, economists and policymakers would want to know who they are.
We do.
The 636 companies that are finalists of the Ernst & Young U.S. Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2012 Awards are those companies.
Spread across the U.S. in industries as diverse as technology, manufacturing, consumer products and energy, these high-growth entrepreneurial companies are defying gravity. Not only have they collectively added more than 150,000 jobs in this challenging two-year period but, also, their annual rates of job growth have almost doubled -- from 9.7 percent in 2010 to 18.9 percent in 2011.
To read the original article: Bryan Pearce: Defying Gravity: High-Growth Entrepreneurship in a Slow-Growth Economy
