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Marisa Sanfilippo

The amount of people joining the road to entrepreneurship is climbing - according to Business News Daily; “the number of Americans involved in early-stage entrepreneurial activity is the highest it has been since The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) began back in 1999.” Also according to site, research has found: 13% of Americans are involved in entrepreneurial activity.

Kara Miller, host of WGBH radio’s Innovation Hub credits two main reasons why young adults in particular are becoming entrepreneurs: there’s the fame that follows the founder of the next big thing and the sheer necessity of finding work in a stagnant economy.