At first glance, you’d think that the ranks of the startup owner profession took a big league hit over the past three years, thanks to a lousy economic climate. But that’s not actually true.
Economist Scott Shane, writing in a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research Report dated March 24, 2011, says that one measure at least– self-employment (the number of U.S. small business owners) — has swelled.
Shane cites The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which shows 2010 had the highest rates of activity in 15 years.
But as Shane writes, measuring self-employment as a barometer of entrepreneurial activity is only part of the story:
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