Milestones in order. This is history, not a weekly activity grid.
- Schumpeter’s Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung
- Kirzner’s Competition and Entrepreneurship
- Madam C.J. Walker’s company
- Honda Motor founded
- Zhang Yin’s paper recycling
- Sarasvathy’s effectuation paper
- Y Combinator begins
- Lean-startup export
- Global accelerator copy
- Creator-economy false positives
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
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Does this atlas rank groups by IQ, race or nation?
No. Pathways and evidence stay individual. Scores are browsing aids — never group biological or racial ranks.
Did Schumpeter define a psychological type?
He defined a function in capitalism — new combinations. Later popularisers turned it into a personality.
What is effectuation?
Sarasvathy’s claim that expert entrepreneurs often start from means, not a fixed goal. A research programme, still debated.
Do startup courses create talent?
They create vocabulary and networks. They cannot delete survivor bias or local law.
Is this leadership talent?
Overlap in coordination. Entrepreneurship adds residual claim on the downside — a different skin in the game.
Why is evidence scored modest?
Definitions wander (self-employed vs innovator vs VC-backed). Outcomes are noisy. Hero books outrun papers.
Merchants are older than the word. Schumpeter named a function. Y Combinator (2005) and a thousand courses named a style. The hero biography is still the dominant folk theory.
The timeline below follows dated arguments and institutions, not a national myth of genius and not a group ranking.
Origin
1911 Schumpeter to 21st c. startup school · Austria / US campuses / global markets — Merchants are older than the word. Schumpeter named a function. Y Combinator (2005) and a thousand courses named a style. The hero biography is still the dominant folk theory.
Timeline
- Schumpeter’s Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung
The entrepreneur as new combinations.
- Kirzner’s Competition and Entrepreneurship
Alertness as the Austrian complement.
- Madam C.J. Walker’s company
A scaled Black women-to-women venture under Jim Crow — a file popular books still flatten.
- Honda Motor founded
A postwar engineering-commercial path, not a dorm-room myth.
- Zhang Yin’s paper recycling
A later global-scale Chinese venture file.
- Sarasvathy’s effectuation paper
Expert entrepreneurs’ logic as a research object.
- Y Combinator begins
Batch-produced founders as a style.
- Lean-startup export
Ries as a popular method — not a talent theory.
- Global accelerator copy
A form that travels better than the legal and capital context.
- Creator-economy false positives
Visibility without a firm.
Eras
- Function — Schumpeter — A role in capitalism.
- Alertness — Kirzner — Seeing what others miss.
- Biography — Walker to Honda — Files, not laws.
- Batch school — YC / lean — A style industrialised.
- Attention economy — Creators — A new false-positive.
Shifts
- From function to personality late 20th c. — The hero turn.
- From means to pitch-deck goals 2005– — And Sarasvathy’s pushback.
- From firm to personal brand 2020s — Visibility without inventory.
Entrepreneurial talent: keep the dates visible. Names of talents are younger than the work they try to capture.
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