Archive for September 12th, 2004
The Bias Against Small Business
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Academic types, and I’m talking about the purists among my colleagues, have long been enamored with high growth companies (they call them gazelles, always with a whimsical tone in their voices) rather than small businesses (which they call life-style businesses, always with bit of a condescending tone). And if you read their [...]
Wall Street Journal: About a decade ago, Al Yeganeh, a surly New York City soup seller, gained global fame when he inspired a character on the hit TV sitcom “Seinfeld.” Now, the notorious chef — known for chewing out some customers and refusing to serve others — is taking his own show on the road. [...]
Michael Stastny: The Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth report, co-sponsored by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group, estimates that an improvement from the bottom to the top quartile of countries in the ease of doing business is associated with an additional [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Josh Cohen’s site D-42.
