The Next American Frontier - Entrepreneurship

Today's WSJ has a column about how the U.S. is become a nation of entrepreneurs.  Here is an excerpt:

The entire world seems to be heading toward points of inflection. The developing world is embarking on the digital age. The developed world is entering the Internet era. And the United States, once again at the vanguard, is on the verge of becoming the world's first Entrepreneurial Nation.

In the past there have been trading states like Venice, commercial regions like the Hanseatic League, and even so-called nations of shopkeepers. But there has never been a nation in which the dominant paradigm is entrepreneurship. Not just self-employment or sole proprietorship, but serial company-building, entire careers built on perpetual change, independence and the endless pursuit of the next opportunity.

The column is from a speech earlier this month at Santa Clara University.  A podcast of that speech is also available.