8/23/11
8/20/11
Woo Hah
30 Most Memorable Fictional Entrepreneurs
1) Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged, steel magnate)
2) Milo Minderbinder (Catch-22, uses war for opportunity)
3) Daniel Plainview (There Will be Blood, oil tycoon)
4) Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire, sports agent)
5) Mildred Pierce (Mildred Pierce, book/movie - working class mother of 2)
6) Willy Wonka (Chocolate Factory, owner and tour guide)
7) Homer Simpson (The Simpsons, multifaceted dad)
8) Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane, wealthy media magnate)
9) Tony Stark (Iron Man, weapons dealer & superhero)
10) Harold Hooper (Sesame Street store owner)
11) Maxine Lund (Being John Malkovich, co-founder of the experience Malkovich biz)
12) Stringer Bell (The Wire, real estate developer/dealer)
13) Fred and George Weasley (Harry Potter, owners of Diagon Alley shop & owl-order business)
14) Bree Van De Kamp (Desperate Housewives, self-sufficient housewife, Caterer &
Author of Mrs. Van de Kamp Recipes)
15) Rick Blaine (Casablanca, cafe owner)
16) Lorelai Gilmore & Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls, managers of Dragonfly Inn)
17) The Once-ler (Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, entrepreneur)
18) Seymour Levov (American Pastoral, business owner)
19) Bill Henrickson (Big Love, owner of 3 wives & 2 stores)
20) Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett (barber and baker)
21) George Jefferson (The Jeffersons, owner of Jefferson Cleaners chain)
22) Calvin Palmer (Barbershop, owner)
23) Benjamin Horne (Twin Peaks, owner of Great Northern Hotel)
24) Yermolay Lopakhin (The Cherry Orchard, change agent)
25) Frenchy (Small Time Crooks, founder of Cookie business/bank robber)
26) Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz &
Egon Spengler (Ghostbusters, founders)
27) Paul Dombey (Dombey & Son, wealthy shipping magnate)
28) Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, founder of Bubba Gump Shrimp)
29) Julia Sugarbaker (Designing Women, interior design firm)
30) Tony Soprano (The Sopranos, mob boss extraordinaire)
(Source: Inc. Magazine)
1) Hank Rearden (Atlas Shrugged, steel magnate)
2) Milo Minderbinder (Catch-22, uses war for opportunity)
3) Daniel Plainview (There Will be Blood, oil tycoon)
4) Jerry Maguire (Jerry Maguire, sports agent)
5) Mildred Pierce (Mildred Pierce, book/movie - working class mother of 2)
6) Willy Wonka (Chocolate Factory, owner and tour guide)
7) Homer Simpson (The Simpsons, multifaceted dad)
8) Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane, wealthy media magnate)
9) Tony Stark (Iron Man, weapons dealer & superhero)
10) Harold Hooper (Sesame Street store owner)
11) Maxine Lund (Being John Malkovich, co-founder of the experience Malkovich biz)
12) Stringer Bell (The Wire, real estate developer/dealer)
13) Fred and George Weasley (Harry Potter, owners of Diagon Alley shop & owl-order business)
14) Bree Van De Kamp (Desperate Housewives, self-sufficient housewife, Caterer &
Author of Mrs. Van de Kamp Recipes)
15) Rick Blaine (Casablanca, cafe owner)
16) Lorelai Gilmore & Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls, managers of Dragonfly Inn)
17) The Once-ler (Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, entrepreneur)
18) Seymour Levov (American Pastoral, business owner)
19) Bill Henrickson (Big Love, owner of 3 wives & 2 stores)
20) Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett (barber and baker)
21) George Jefferson (The Jeffersons, owner of Jefferson Cleaners chain)
22) Calvin Palmer (Barbershop, owner)
23) Benjamin Horne (Twin Peaks, owner of Great Northern Hotel)
24) Yermolay Lopakhin (The Cherry Orchard, change agent)
25) Frenchy (Small Time Crooks, founder of Cookie business/bank robber)
26) Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz &
Egon Spengler (Ghostbusters, founders)
27) Paul Dombey (Dombey & Son, wealthy shipping magnate)
28) Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, founder of Bubba Gump Shrimp)
29) Julia Sugarbaker (Designing Women, interior design firm)
30) Tony Soprano (The Sopranos, mob boss extraordinaire)
(Source: Inc. Magazine)
6/13/11
Index of Economic Freedom tells us that...
This year's Index of Economic Freedom (by Heritage) shows that institutions support doing business here, but there are some issues that continuously hurt Finnish economy and probably the growth-orientation among entrepreneurs (oh yes it yes dependent on other issues, too). In all, Finlad is 17th among 183 nations (just behind the UK) and about in the middle of all free economies.
IPRs are looking good, too:
But what do you know... Well, even if the relationship between labor freedom and low prevalence of high-impact entrepreneurs is not direct or simple, this figure suggests that the Finnish labor market is heavily charged by high non-salary costs of employment and burdensome labor regulations.
IPRs are looking good, too:
But what do you know... Well, even if the relationship between labor freedom and low prevalence of high-impact entrepreneurs is not direct or simple, this figure suggests that the Finnish labor market is heavily charged by high non-salary costs of employment and burdensome labor regulations.
5/25/11
Flower power
OECD published a novel your better life index. In this comparison Finland is doing ok excluding what comes to the income: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/finland/
5/20/11
5/12/11
4/13/11
4/4/11
They are getting older
Brand new statistics show that over the half of Finnish entrepreneurs are over 45 years old. Younger individuals still seem to dislike this kind of behavior. Figures published by the Statistics Finland show that the total number of entrepreneurs declined from 2008 to 2009 by over 3.600 individuals being now about 237.000. Among 18-24 years old we have 5000 entrepreneurs which is only 2.3 percentage of the total number of employed population at that age.
This numbers also include the farmers which causes a possibility of age-based bias if the numbers are compared internationally. This, though, partially explains the huge drop decline in the entrepreneurial population between 1990-2009.
[source: Statistics Finland]
This numbers also include the farmers which causes a possibility of age-based bias if the numbers are compared internationally. This, though, partially explains the huge drop decline in the entrepreneurial population between 1990-2009.
[source: Statistics Finland]
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