New ventures have a significant global economic impact by contributing over $20 trillion annually in revenues and supporting over 26 million small businesses in the US. They play a crucial role in innovation and technological change that drives productivity growth. While large, existing firms have downsized and reinvented themselves, thousands of new entrepreneurial ventures have blossomed and gone on to become major institutions. Entrepreneurs and new ventures have revolutionized business conduct globally and generated millions of jobs to offset reductions at large companies.