Boom

Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups

By: Craig Hall, Linden Gross

Narrated by: Greg Lockett

For decades, the United States has been experiencing a shocking decline in the number of new business start-ups - and it has gotten worse since the Great Recession. While new business formation in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston is booming, entrepreneurship in most of the country - particularly rural regions - is declining. Things are even worse for women and people of color. This is of paramount importance to the United States because start-ups account for all new net-job growth, champion innovation, and strengthen our middle class.

From the perspective of an entrepreneur with more than 50 years of experience in diverse industries - from software to real estate to winemaking - author Craig Hall provides his expert evaluation on the challenges facing entrepreneurs today. After careful analysis defining the current environment for startups, Hall optimistically concludes with specific strategies for go-getters to successfully bridge the opportunity gap. We can, and must, reverse these trends in order to level the playing field for entrepreneurs to safeguard the future of the American Dream.

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Tackling a vital topic for American leadership

Mr. Hall’s practical and easy to read book Boom is essential reading for aspiring entrepreneurs, business people, community leaders and politicians. The 2020 pandemic exacerbated the issues we face. Bottom line: entrepreneurship is America’s competitive advantage and we all must encourage the brave people who are willing to take the risk to fuel our economy and create jobs.