Entrepreneurship..The U.S. economy needs all kinds of entrepreneursâfrom coders to clockmakersâin order to close its widening fiscal hole. But the relentless, seek-and-solve breed is our salvation. They are the ones forever craning their necks, addicted to "looking around corners" and "changing the world." Theyânot lendersâare the real money multipliers: the ones who turn $1 of capital into $2, then $2 into $10, and $10 into $100.
This is the true essence of entrepreneurship: Define, invest, build, repeat. "It's just balls-out fun," crowed Steve Spoonamore, serial entrepreneur and founder of ABSMaterials, a member of Forbes' list of America's Most Promising Companies. "There are people who love to sail the ocean or climb mountains, and more power to themâbut it's nowhere near as interesting as taking a technology nobody has heard of, finding a market for it and launching it to your customers. That's satisfying."