{"id":128,"date":"2004-03-23T07:43:48","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T07:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2004-03-23T07:43:48","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T07:43:48","slug":"andreessen_on_americas_strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen on America&#8217;s Strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:3DATpGyzELIJ:images.usatoday.com\/money\/_photos\/2003\/03-10-mnetscape.jpg\"><br \/>\nOptimism is everything<br \/>\nAmidst much discussion on outsourcing, Wisconsin native (and Netscape co-founder) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=ISO-8859-1&#038;q=marc+andreessen&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">Marc Andreessen<\/a> writes about America&#8217;s economic &#038; cultural strengths:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Higher education: &#8212; we&#8217;re the best in the world; students come from every other country on the planet to study in our colleges and universities.\n<li>Entrepreneurialism throughout the system &#8212; we continue to be the most entrepreneurial economy on the planet (more than China, more than India, certainly more than Japan, &#8230; and way more than Europe).\n<li><b>Risk-friendly culture<\/b> (this is hugely important) &#8211; this is <b>not<\/b> true across all states &#8211; Wisconsin needs to encourage more risk taking &#8211; state subsidies are not the answer\n<li>Culture that loves new things &#8212; American obsession with the latest and greatest &#8212; often made fun of but hugely valuable.<\/ul>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> more via <a href=\"http:\/\/jrobb.mindplex.org\/stories\/2004\/03\/22\/marcAndreessenOnAmericanStrengths.html\">John Robb&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimism is everything Amidst much discussion on outsourcing, Wisconsin native (and Netscape co-founder) Marc Andreessen writes about America&#8217;s economic &#038; cultural strengths: Higher education: &#8212; we&#8217;re the best in the world; students come from every other country on the planet to study in our colleges and universities. Entrepreneurialism throughout the system &#8212; we continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}