{"id":6922,"date":"2021-12-29T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2021-12-29T20:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:27:32","slug":"entrepreneurship-is-on-the-rise-despite-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6922","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurship Is on the Rise, Despite COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Data from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indicators.kauffman.org\/indicator\/opportunity-share-of-new-entrepreneurs\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kauffman Foundation indicate<\/a>&nbsp;that the percent of new entrepreneurs who created a business by choice instead of necessity dropped from 86.86 percent in 2019 to 69.75 percent last year. Many people happy to work for somebody else were pushed into starting a business by pandemic-era chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a lot of those people seem to have discovered that they actually like working for themselves, and that may be causing a cultural shift. At the end of November,&nbsp;<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>&nbsp;reported that at least part of the &#8220;Great Resignation&#8221; phenomenon of Americans quitting jobs involved people starting businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ATj9xYLSog\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/12\/10\/entrepreneurship-is-on-the-rise-despite-covid-19\/\">Entrepreneurship Is on the Rise, Despite COVID-19<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Entrepreneurship Is on the Rise, Despite COVID-19&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/12\/10\/entrepreneurship-is-on-the-rise-despite-covid-19\/embed\/#?secret=pJCHuobiiR#?secret=ATj9xYLSog\" data-secret=\"ATj9xYLSog\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Data from the Kauffman Foundation indicate that the percent of new entrepreneurs who created a business by choice instead of necessity dropped from 86.86 percent in 2019 to 69.75 percent last year. Many people happy to work for somebody else were pushed into starting a business by pandemic-era chaos.<\/p>\n<p>But a lot of those people seem to have discovered that they actually like working for themselves, and that may be causing a cultural shift. At the end of November, The Wall Street Journal reported that at least part of the &#8220;Great Resignation&#8221; phenomenon of Americans quitting jobs involved people starting businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[798,588,409,483,165,1502,271,635],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-business","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6923,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}