Steve Case: Double Down on Entrepreneurship

Here’s a brief and brilliant (just the way I like things) video interview with Steve Case on our economic condition, job growth, and entrepreneurship.

Video Preview: (1) To keep the economy and job creation engine moving, we should be focusing on entrepreneurship; (2) congress needs to act in these three key areas: Immigration, Access to Capital, and Regulation; and (3) Case shares the startling statistic that the number of entrepreneurial start-ups is down 23%.

Coincidentally, Larry Cox, Ph.D., Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management, shared with me recently that the number one predictor of U.S. business start-ups is our unemployment rate: when unemployment is high, start-ups are low. Given that all net-job-creation in the past three decades has come from high-growth entrepreneurial companies, we’ve got a dilemma.

What do you suggest we do? Do you think Case is correct? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.