Instead of the normal country write-up that we offer, we found a collection of great articles about various topics relating to being an entrepreneur in the United States. This is a great source of outside-the-classroom work for professors or entrepreneurship educators.

American Entrepreneurship Articles

Famous American Entrepreneurs
The Greatest American Entrepreneurs of All Time
MBAs vs. Entrepreneurs
American entrepreneurs seek new opportunities amid recession
North American Cities of the Future 2009/10
The American Business Revolution

Being an Entrepreneur

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur
Great Minds in Business. And They Said it Couldn’t be Done…
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
How Individuals Decide to Start Companies
Lessons of a Serial Entrepreneur
Stop making excuses and get started
Striking Out On Your Own
Value systems the key to being an entrepreneur
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
What type of entrepreneur are you?
What’s Your Entreprenuer IQ?
10 Traits Entrepreneurs and Einstein Share

International Entrepreneurial Environment

A Framework for Understanding Accelerated International Entrepreneurship
Early Int’l of US Based New Venture: Int’l and Domestic Comparison
Entrepreneurship & Culture: Slovenia – An International perspective
Entrepreneurship and American Economic Growth
Entrepreneurship in International Business:  An Institutional Perspective
Freeing American Entrepreneurs to Compete in Global Market
How New Ventures Exploit Tradeoffs Among International Risk Factors
The New Face of Immigration

Going Global

Creating Value Across Borders
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
Going Global (Inc Magazine)
Going Global in Uncertain Times
Going global: international business tips make a world of difference
Small Businesses Are Going Global
Small Businesses Going Global (Inc Magazine)
Take your business global
The Bumpy Road to Global Trade
To Go Global—Or No? How You Made the Call
Why go global? Compelling reasons to expand internationally
20 Factors to Consider Before Going Global

Creativity and Brainstorming

Entrepreneurship: Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
How to think what no one else thinks
Innovation Drought
Low-Cost Methods For Spotting Customer Trends
No Innovation Drought
The Dance of Creativity
The Living Legacies of Shuttered Startups
Brainstorming techniques, exercises and ideas
Creating the Perfect Storm — A Creative Brainstorming Meeting

Selecting Foreign Markets

Analyzing Potential Markets
Identifying International Markets
Innocents Abroad
International Trade Forum -  Look Before You Leap
Investing Where Investors Don’t Like to Go

Business Structures

Choice of Entity
Choosing the Best Ownership Structure for Your Business – Nolo
Corporation, S Corporation and LLC Comparisons
Forms of Business Organizations – Which Legal Structure To Choose?
Types of Ownership Structures – Nolo

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping a Company
Bootstrapping your business
Finding Financing in a Slump
Great Companies Started for $1,000 or Less
Less Burn, More Lift
Net Flix
Start with Nothing
The Secrets of Bootstrapping
Venture capital: Bootstrap your company funds

Banks and Loans

Best Banks for entrepreneurs

Obtaining a Loan for Your Startup
SBA Loans for Your Startup
The Few, the Proud, the Bankable

Angels

Angel Investor Directory
Burn Your Business Plan! – concentrating on the nuts and bolts of building a business will do you more good than wooing venture capital
Business Angel Investing Groups Growing in North America
BW Online | May 11, 2001 | It’s Tough Being an Angel in Japan
How To Be an Angel Investor
How to find your angel investor
Seven Steps to Heaven
The Many Lives of a Wall Street Angel
The Private-Capital Survival Guide
The VC in My Dorm Room
You Can Still Find an Angel Investor
5 Quick Tips on Pitching Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists

Venture Capital

Making Sense of Corporate Venture Capital
Top 100 Venture Capital Firms
The Power of Partnership
The Start of a Dot-Comback?
This Risk-Taker Is Ready to Roll the Dice
VC Environment Difficult—But Not the Worst
VCs risk outpacing consumers
Venture Capital: After "the Perfect Storm"
What VCs Want to Hear
When the Growing Gets Tough

Exporting

Entrepreneurship in International Trade
Exporting the Risk – Setting up direct sales abroad and raising money from European venture capitalists.
For U.S. Small Biz, Fertile Soil in Europe
Is Exporting for You?
Pricing to Cover Exporting Costs
The ABCs of Exporting
The Export Bust
Exporting Services
The Complete Export Primer
Export: One Call Answers All
Financing Your Exports

Foreign Direct Investment

Does foreign direct investment crowd out domestic entrepreneurship?

E-commerce

A Dot-Com that Worked: www.weather.com
Rethinking E-Leadership

Employment Issues

Build the Team, Build the Company
CEO’s Notebook: Stock Options & Equity
Compensation: What’s the Big Secret?
How to Manage Your Bad Boys
Seven Tips for Communicating in Today’s Diverse Workplace
Tapping into Your Team’s Emotional Intelligence
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
When Your Employees Battle, Consider Doing—Nothing!
Business Insurance
Employees

Study of International Entrepreneurship

International Entrepreneurship: The Intersection of Two Research Paths
State of Doctorial Education in Entrepreneurship

Business Plans

How to Write a Great Business Plan
10 Painless Steps to Starting and Finishing Your Business Plan
Business Plans – A Business Plan Outline