Start-Up Century

A fresh look at the boom in entrepreneurship and start-ups - and how it''s changing the world of work. Does it feel like everyone you know is thinking about starting a business? That''s because they are. In the last few years new businesses have been launched in record numbers, with more of us than ever deciding to go it alone or become entrepreneurs.Fuelled by new technologies like artificial intelligence and automation, this trend is only just beginning, with traditional firms due to be automated in the same way that farms and factories were in the last few decades. Start-Up Century explains why this shift is happening, and what it will mean to live in a world where most of us are self-employed, or work in small entrepreneurial endeavours. It details the entrepreneurial frontiers ahead of us, the opportunities to be seized, and products to be built in fields as diverse as robotics to healthcare, energy and construction. And it covers the many challenges that this new way of working presents, setting out ideas and policies to help us close the digital divide, make education relevant again, make our public services more innovative and inspire a new generation to build the solutions the world needs.In the face of rapid changes to the way we work and the technologies available to us, Start-Up Century sets out an overwhelmingly positive view of how individuals and start-ups, not corporates, will solve the challenges of the twenty-first century.Authored by James Wise, the venture capitalist and technology commentator, Start-Up Century is packed with personal tales and interviews with everyone from teenage side-hustlers to the CEOs of multi-billion-dollar successes. This is a book for every aspiring entrepreneur, and anyone interested in the policy changes needed to support them.>

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James Wise has worked with some of the most successful technology companies of the last decade. As an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Partner at Balderton, a fund that's backed over 20 'unicorn' start-ups, he has worked with businesses as they've grown from their founders' living rooms to Nasdaq IPOs. He sits on the board of companies focussed on the global challenges of sustainability, artificial intelligence and healthcare. He is a member of the UK Government's Industrial Development Advisory Board, a trustee of the charity Demos and has written and contributed widely for publications like The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and the BBC.

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A fresh look at the boom in entrepreneurship and start-ups - and how it's changing the world of work.

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A fresh look at the boom in entrepreneurship and start-ups and how it's changing the world of work.

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Introduction
Chapter 1: Building something new
Chapter 2: What's an entrepreneur
Chapter 3: The speed of change
Chapter 4: The rise and fall of the factory
Chapter 5: The rise and fall of the firm
Chapter 6: Putting passion back into the economy
Chapter 7: Entrepreneurial frontiers
Chapter 8: For better or worse
Chapter 9: Building the digital scaffolds
Chapter 10: Educating entrepreneurs
Chapter 11: A new skills bargain
Chapter 12: Keeping the balance
Chapter 13: The public innovator
Chapter 14: Funding the future
Chapter 15: The digital dividend
Sources
Acknowledgements