The $200B question
Why most entrepreneurship support arrives too late to change outcomes, and what that means for policy, capital, and local economies.
Media and launch coverage
For interviews, extracts, commentary, podcast appearances, and data-led stories connected to We’re Doing This Wrong and the launch in November 2026.
Angles
The book is designed to support serious coverage of entrepreneurship policy, regional growth, innovation spending, and the gap between startup activity and startup outcomes.
Why most entrepreneurship support arrives too late to change outcomes, and what that means for policy, capital, and local economies.
How large organisations confuse visible startup activity with meaningful ecosystem architecture.
Why cities and regions need to treat entrepreneurship as economic infrastructure, not a grant programme.
What is available
A working press kit with bio, book summary, suggested questions, and current image placeholders.
A concise overview of the argument, launch timing, sample excerpts, and chapter themes.
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“The real story is not that entrepreneurship matters. It is that the systems built to support it are often designed around the wrong moment.”
A line from the book’s core argument for launch coverage and interviews.
Lines from the argument
Short thesis lines that make the book's point in public-sector, corporate, and founder conversations.
“The problem is not a shortage of startup activity. The problem is that too much activity is disconnected from the infrastructure founders need to build durable companies.”
From We're Doing This Wrong“If a region wants more entrepreneurs, it needs more than inspiration. It needs routes to customers, capital, talent, trust, and timing.”
Policy and ecosystem briefings“The most useful corporate partnership is not the one that photographs best. It is the one that meets the founder at the moment the company is being shaped.”
Corporate innovation teams“Founders do not need another room full of people applauding the journey. They need systems that remove the friction between formation and scale.”
Founder-first supportPress inquiry
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