Americans adore entrepreneurs. In every poll that I have seen, entrepreneurs are held in high esteem even as big business is generally viewed with disdain. Why?
Americans’ positive feelings about entrepreneurship are related to their positive feelings about small business, with which entrepreneurship is often conflated.
Small business gets its rosy glow partly from the well-propagated claim that the small business sector creates all the jobs in the economy. That is largely true, actually, but it is also an example of the ubiquitous practice of lying with statistics.
