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Preface Abstract Table of Contents List of Figures Part I: Chapter 1: Introduction i. What is a startup ii. Connectivity iii. Cynicism and mistrust of government institutions and state authority iv. The new world of 2021 – 2022 v. Entrepreneurship and community vi. The Plan vii. The Backdrop: A short survey of related current research viii. Bibliography Chapter 2: Business dynamism over 1994-2020 i. Young versus mature startups ii. Scale of startups iii. Kauffman Foundation data iv. Tax and administrative data v. The mobility versus the desktop digital revolution vi. Data Map vii. Bibliography Chapter 3: Desktop vs mobility revolutions at the state level 48 i. Time ii. Geography iii. Time and Geography iv. The Mississippi River v. The Southern Region and the rising star of Georgia vi. The NUWMICs vii. Resilience viii. Weak Northeast ix. District of Columbia and Hawaii x. State level illustrations xi. Bibliography Chapter 4: The impact of the Great Recession 68 i. The turnaround states ii. Correlation between the two periods iii. Per capita results iv. The unique nature of resilient states v. Bibliography Chapter 5: The mature startups 77 i. Mature startup survival ii. The delay hypothesis iii. State level descriptions iv. Per capita results v. Acquisition by behemoths or absence of support architecture vi. Industries and sectors vii. State-by-industry portrait viii. Taxation ix. Bibliography Part II: Chapter 6: Is it about technology? i. The technologies ii. Putting it all together iii. Idiosyncratic aspects of states iv. Sizzling patent is not a startup v. Clarity about the product and customer feedback vi. The demand side – awareness of a problem vii. Scaling and rapid cost escalation viii. Unintended effects of rapid scaling ix. Cooperation and the human-centered Anthropocene x. Costs of coordination xi. Appendix – McKinsey Technology Forecast and MIT Review Technology Forecast xii. Bibliography Chapter 7: The entrepreneurial culture i. Not about finance ii. Not the gold rush model iii. Connectedness iv. Consensual disagreement v. Asynchrony and noise vi. Accelerators and the support architecture vii. Scaling, again viii. Bibliography Chapter 8: Gender, education, race and ethnicity i. Age, experience and the undefined factor – the two paradoxes ii. Gender iii. Education iv. Entrepreneurship skills v. Race and Ethnicity vi. Bibliography Chapter 9: The big quit: reimagining lifestyles i. Quits ii. The demographics iii. The state trends iv. The pandemic v. The government vi. Bibliography Chapter 10: Culture, society and government: i. A broader perspective – communities ii. Policy and entrepreneurship iii. My take iv. Bibliography Appendix: i. Data Sources ii. Business Employment Dynamics iii. Statistical Details
