An Entrepreneurial Vision for America

In this week’s Dashboard , Victor Hwang offers reason to be optimistic about the entrepreneurial energy bubbling up in America. Did you know you can incorporate a business in Colorado for $1?

Good Morning!

Here are today’s highlights:    

• The nation’s restaurant chains are learning “you can’t discount yourself to prosperity.”

• The first round of Trump tariffs did not reduce the amount of goods we import.

• Here’s why, despite the rise of ecommerce, some brick-and-mortar retailers continue to thrive.

• Gene Marks says the password wars will never end.

SCHEDULING NOTE

Okay, so on Friday, I told you that The Morning Report wouldn’t be published this week, but I couldn’t resist. New plan: The newsletter will be published today (obviously) and tomorrow and then return next week. 

THE 21 HATS PODCAST: DASHBOARD

An Entrepreneurial Vision for America: This week, Victor Hwang shares some surprising reasons to be optimistic about entrepreneurship in America. For one thing, Victor, who is founder of Right To Start, says that he can’t remember a presidential election where entrepreneurship was as much a part of the conversation as it was in this one. For another, he points to a series of policy changes at the local level that have made it far easier to start businesses and that he believes will serve as a blueprint for other jurisdictions looking to cut red tape. As always, Victor brings news that has yet to reach most of us—including an issue he plans to address in 2025: standard lending rules that actually discriminate against entrepreneurs by making it harder for them to get a home mortgage.

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