Paul Kedrosky had a very interesting take on entrepreneurship this week on “Marketplace.” In an interview with Tess Vigeland, he suggested that access to healthcare, and not access to capital, was a key obstacle to entrepreneurship in today’s economic climate. An excerpt:
Vigeland: So then you have these non-20 somethings who are opening up these businesses. What is standing in their way? You do talk about in the article about how health care is a really big issue.
KEDROSKY: Right. Exactly. One of the myths in entrepreneurship is this idea that the primary obstacle is the availability of capital when most entrepreneurs are ego-driven people who believe that they can... Read More
Back in 2002, I thought it was modestly innovative to hold a conference where online interactions were a core part of the experience, participants helped to co-create the content, information flowed in and out of the event in real-time, and the subject matter ranged across traditional industry boundaries. Modestly, because those developments seemed inevitable in an increasingly connected world. Yet here we are in 2009, and I still get asked about those features of Supernova, as though they were wild and novel. I haven’t changed my view about inevitability. And frankly, Supernova has moved forward a great deal since 2002.
Today, with so many fantastic online tools and information sources,... Read More
In this part of the interview, we discover the third piece in which the web is exceptional – the ability to allow collaboration on a scale previously unprecedented. David and Howard also discuss the ways that networks connect us, and note the fact that there’s a need for new words to describe friends (because of the use of the word “friend” in social networking services) is yet another reason to consider the shift in our society that the web is causing. Finally the two discuss “Networks for Change,” specifically how the Obama administration’s shift towards transparency is changing how governments react to people.
In case you... Read More
