Review of Launchpad Republic
Posted: 13 Oct 2022, 16:47
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Launchpad Republic" by Howard Wolk and John Landry.]
Launchpad Republic: America's Entrepreneurial Edge and Why It Matters by Howard Wolk and John Landry shows how the American political and economic system changed to control the dynamic between incumbents and upstarts. It also tries to strike a balance between the numerous contending factors at play. This book focuses on America and how it is a frontier in entrepreneurship. It constantly compared China, Israel, England, Japan, and other countries to America with respect to the entrepreneurial edge.
Howard Wolk is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and company builder, while John Landry is an independent business historian and writer. They both came together to combine their knowledge and expertise in the birthing of this book. In this book, you will find startup stories about companies like Uber and other taxi companies, their fight to stay, and their struggle through expansion. This book successfully analyzed how upstart and incumbent entrepreneurs are affected by different factors.
There are some things I love about this book. When I started reading the preambles of this book, I thought the whole book was going to be difficult to digest due to the complicated language used. I was surprised by how things became much easier when I started chapter one. I like the way the authors summarized the book, chapter by chapter, at the beginning of the book. It gave me an idea of what would be covered in each chapter. This further helped me digest the contents of each chapter later on. I like how each chapter starts with a story. It draws you in and gives an excellent analogy of what will be discussed further in that chapter. There are stories about The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughterhouse Company, Standard Oil, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), and U.S. Steel. There were also other political, economic, and entrepreneurial stories scattered in-between chapters. Also, I love how adequately researched this book is. The authors referenced many books and research and provided citations of those sources at the end of each chapter. For a better understanding of the readers, charts and data tables were also provided.
This book discussed entrepreneurial competition extensively. This book will teach you about the different stages of entrepreneurial development in America in different years. You will learn from this book that the political, legal, and cultural frameworks of the United States allow entrepreneurs to flourish and expand, even when they must confront formidable adversaries. This book is both informative and educational.
The copy available on OBC seems to be the editor's copy because I could see some corrections that the editor made. There were many errors, all of which had already been pointed out. These errors must have been corrected in the official copy. Hence, I encourage the author to change the file in OBC to an updated one. The errors did not affect my rating because the book's editor had already corrected them.
I recommend this book to entrepreneurs and those interested in reading about the economies and politics of various countries. This book analyzed and compared different companies from different countries. I found it very informative and educational. I honestly did not find anything to dislike about this book. For all the above reasons, I am rating it 4 out of 4 stars. This book has ten chapters and is a total of 205 pages long.
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Launchpad Republic
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Launchpad Republic: America's Entrepreneurial Edge and Why It Matters by Howard Wolk and John Landry shows how the American political and economic system changed to control the dynamic between incumbents and upstarts. It also tries to strike a balance between the numerous contending factors at play. This book focuses on America and how it is a frontier in entrepreneurship. It constantly compared China, Israel, England, Japan, and other countries to America with respect to the entrepreneurial edge.
Howard Wolk is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and company builder, while John Landry is an independent business historian and writer. They both came together to combine their knowledge and expertise in the birthing of this book. In this book, you will find startup stories about companies like Uber and other taxi companies, their fight to stay, and their struggle through expansion. This book successfully analyzed how upstart and incumbent entrepreneurs are affected by different factors.
There are some things I love about this book. When I started reading the preambles of this book, I thought the whole book was going to be difficult to digest due to the complicated language used. I was surprised by how things became much easier when I started chapter one. I like the way the authors summarized the book, chapter by chapter, at the beginning of the book. It gave me an idea of what would be covered in each chapter. This further helped me digest the contents of each chapter later on. I like how each chapter starts with a story. It draws you in and gives an excellent analogy of what will be discussed further in that chapter. There are stories about The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughterhouse Company, Standard Oil, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), and U.S. Steel. There were also other political, economic, and entrepreneurial stories scattered in-between chapters. Also, I love how adequately researched this book is. The authors referenced many books and research and provided citations of those sources at the end of each chapter. For a better understanding of the readers, charts and data tables were also provided.
This book discussed entrepreneurial competition extensively. This book will teach you about the different stages of entrepreneurial development in America in different years. You will learn from this book that the political, legal, and cultural frameworks of the United States allow entrepreneurs to flourish and expand, even when they must confront formidable adversaries. This book is both informative and educational.
The copy available on OBC seems to be the editor's copy because I could see some corrections that the editor made. There were many errors, all of which had already been pointed out. These errors must have been corrected in the official copy. Hence, I encourage the author to change the file in OBC to an updated one. The errors did not affect my rating because the book's editor had already corrected them.
I recommend this book to entrepreneurs and those interested in reading about the economies and politics of various countries. This book analyzed and compared different companies from different countries. I found it very informative and educational. I honestly did not find anything to dislike about this book. For all the above reasons, I am rating it 4 out of 4 stars. This book has ten chapters and is a total of 205 pages long.
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Launchpad Republic
View: on Bookshelves