They haven't developed the perfect mousetrap. They're not brighter than the rest of us. They don't have more money. Brockhaus attributes part of the growth of entrepreneurship to changes in the corporate sector. As competition has gotten tougher, paternalistic companies have toughened as well, and workers have found higher performance expectations.
Mediocre workers have no security dead wood is pushed out.
With the change, we're seeing more people willing to be entrepreneurs. In other cases, workers find themselves superfluous to company operations when companies are divested or merged. Enterprising workers are always looking for something else. Williams started out in his high school drama department as a technical director and approached his DJ business from the equipment side. He didn't consider his age as a drawback and said that starting young actually was an advantage for him because he quickly gained supporters.