The Good Struggle

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This short book emerged after a long effort—in many ways, a struggle—that spanned five years. I am deeply grateful to many of my colleagues and to others for their suggestions and support all along the way.

Some colleagues helped directly with my effort to understand entrepreneurs and their work. I am particularly grateful to Lynda Applegate, Tom Eisenmann, Shikhar Ghosh, Richard Hamermesh, Bruce Harreld, Bob Higgins, Joe Lassiter, Mike Roberts, and Noam Wasserman. In addition, over the course of this project I had several long, valuable conversations with Howard Stevenson and Bill Sahlman, who have influenced thinking and writing about entrepreneurship for decades, and they both read early versions of the manuscript.

I also ...