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1 i Quotes from Danaris are from six interviews conducted between May 2019 and December 2020. Elizabeth visited in person in summer 2019, a visit that included a lunch in a lively Dominican restaurant.

2 ii This is actually an area of emerging research. The Kauffman Foundation, in particular, has started to look more closely at those who have business ideas but don't end up starting companies. You can find a link to their initial report on this subject in the endnotes.

3 iii This point can't be emphasized enough. Over and over again we were taken back by just how optimistic the New Builders we met in researching this book are. It's an infectious optimism that clearly rubbed off on us as well. While it would be easy to look at some of the trends and feel a sense of dread, we feel exactly the opposite. We've seen firsthand the power grassroots entrepreneurship can have on a community. And it has left us feeling hopeful about our future.

4 iv Women have always started businesses across every economic sector imaginable, especially so in today's economy.

5 v Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and had witnessed first‐hand the early rise of what became known as Silicon Valley.

6 vi These ideas were developed in conversations in Spring 2020 with historian Margaret O'Mara and Robert Atkinson, founder of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

7 vii Both Seth and Elizabeth know the world of technology startups well. Seth is the co‐founder of a venture capital firm, Foundry Group, that has been an investor in many successful technology companies. Elizabeth is a long‐time business journalist. We celebrate the innovation that comes out of this world at the same time sounding the alarm that our conception of entrepreneurship has been overtaken by it in a way that is counterproductive to our overall economy and hides fundamental truths about the state of our broader entrepreneurial ecosystem.