- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- FOREWORD: OWN YOUR FIERCE POWER
- INTRODUCTION: THE REBIRTH OF THE GREAT AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR
- PART I: Who are the New Builders?
- CHAPTER ONE: A New Generation
- The New Builders
- Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere
- Hope
- Choosing What to See
- What Is an Entrepreneur?
- Silicon Valley and the Rise of the Giants
- Notes
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER TWO: How Change Really Happens
- Main Street USA
- How Big Became Beautiful
- Why a Dynamic Economy Is Important
- Innovation Comes from Surprising Places
- Can You Tell an Innovator When You See One?
- Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship and Science
- The Easy Story of the Big Movers
- Notes
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER THREE: The Definition of Success
- Entrepreneurial Dreams
- The Great Disappearance
- It's About Capital. Hard Stop.
- Note
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER FOUR: More than Grit
- Relentless Pursuit
- Doing What It Takes
- Ghost Startups
- Sometimes It's the Journey That Counts
- Endnotes
- PART II: How We Got Here / What We're Up Against
- CHAPTER FIVE: Opportunity When You Don't Expect It
- Note
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER SIX: A Brief History of Entrepreneurship in the United States
- Part Myth, Part History
- Entrepreneurial from the Beginning
- The Age of Exploration
- Colonial Ingenuity
- The Business of Revolution
- The Revolution of Business
- The Land of Opportunity. For Some.
- Starting Over versus Failing
- Collaboration Thrives
- The Dawn of the Internet Age
- Venture Capital Is Born
- The Silicon Valley Version of Entrepreneurship
- Notes
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Elephants in the Room
- Go Big or Go Home
- Where Did Our Love Affair with Size Come From?
- Big and Politically Powerful
- Signs of Change?
- Who Can Fight Back?
- Notes
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Where's the Money?
- Women‐Owned Businesses Are Our Single Biggest Potential Source of Economic Growth
- A Different Flavor of Iced Tea
- The Nexus of Capital, Network, and Culture
- Grassroots Growth
- Capital Matters
- Banks
- The Slow Decline of Community Banks
- More than Just Capital
- Note
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER NINE: Failure, a Hallmark of Builders New and Old
- Are We Starting to Fail at Failing?
- Redefining Failure
- Institutionalized Failure, in a Good Way
- Teaching Resilience
- Note
- Endnotes
- PART III: The Invisible Army
- CHAPTER TEN: Unlikely Heroes
- Notes
- Endnote
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Crossing the Divide
- Big Prairie and Open Pastures
- An Uphill Climb
- Fights That Don't Exist
- Notes
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Sum of Our Parts
- Beauty Matters
- The Old Boys Network Put to Good Use
- Proudly Supporting “Lifestyle Businesses”
- The Stonewall Jackson Sign Finally Falls
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: No One Develops on the East Side
- It Takes Money
- The Death of the American Bank
- Financial Giants
- Redlining Is Real, Even Today
- “That Evil Woman”
- The Forgotten Hero of Community Finance
- Fewer Loans and Higher Interest Rates
- The Relationship Factor
- Endnotes
- PART IV: Face to Face with the Future
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A Secret of Silicon Valley
- No One Does It Alone
- Serendipity
- Focus on the Numbers
- Two Times More Likely
- Metcalfe's Law
- Notes
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: New Capital Models
- Financing at Scale
- The Definition of Investor and Financier
- Connecting Investors with Main Street
- A Trailblazer 40 Years in the Making
- A Laboratory for Innovation
- New Builders Supporting New Builders
- A Call for Creative Finance
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Hope and Promise
- See New Builders and See Ourselves
- Change Starts with Individuals, but Collective Action Is What Really Matters
- Safety Nets and Backstops
- Rebalance Regulations to Help Small Business
- Create a Movement of Support for New Builders
- Broadening Capital Ownership
- Why Should You Act? Because Communities Matter.
- Note
- Endnote
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- INDEX
- PHOTO INSERTS
- END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
PART II
How We Got Here / What We're Up Against
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas Edison
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