“Restarting the growth economy will take more than lifting shelter-in-place orders. It will mean rebuilding the ecosystem and environment to reignite businesses and individuals to take long-term risks again. Indeed, rebuilding consumer confidence will be the hardest it has ever been.”

“With so many small businesses dying due to lack of government support, the dreams and ideals of millions of creatives are being snuffed out. It is not only those small business owners and their employees who are being directly impacted but those creatives whose ideas and concepts are only now forming.”

“From a social and economic structure perspective, we as humans have built up our current society based on conformity rather than adaptability. Rules and regulations are designed to ensure not only compliance but conformity as well…Unfortunately, though, the technological change that we have seen over the past number of decades is fundamentally causing a rethink…

“If we focus specifically on entrepreneurship, the fundamental question that drives the conversation of who can be an entrepreneur is whether or not it is an innate characteristic or whether it can be taught. While this question has always been a much discussed topic, particularly as entrepreneurship has taken flight over the past several decades,…