Yes, You Can Save the World with Startups
Dave Lambert pointed me to this new Kauffman Foundation paper by Tim Kane about job creation in the US. Then Will Ambrosini pointed to this Growthology post which reproduces the money diagram from page 5 :
Look carefully. Then think about this statement about US job creation:
The only firms that create jobs on average are brand new ones.
So yes, you can save the world with startups.
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