Registration for Global Entrepreneurship Week events in Kansas City is up 50 percent from last year, a spike that organizers at KC SourceLink credit in part to rising interest in entrepreneurship as economic turbulence pushes more people to consider new paths.
In an interview with local ABC News station KMBC, local organizer Callie England said, “There’s a myriad of reasons why people become entrepreneurs at that point. Some people are laid off and it becomes a necessity, and other people just start to really question putting their future in someone else’s hands. And so that’s the time if they’ve been thinking about something for five years, they say, you know what? It’s time to take control of my life.”
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