---

Guest post by: Paul Kedrosky Become an Author

Tweet

---

---

Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been canceled...
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town.
- Spinal Tap (1984)

In playing with Google Insight I started checking trends on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Has that sort of thing become, you know, passe, since the dot-com bubble burst and the Web 2.0 thing is waning? Or is it growing, at least as evidenced by people's search behavior on Google?

Here is the result since 2004:

cali-entrepreneurs

Interesting, non? Judging by searches related to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, California isn't even in Google's (normalized) top ten across all states. The situation improves if you make the search to be just entrepreneurs, as opposed to both entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, with California ascending to the #4 spot, but both are contrary to what you might think.

The obvious answer, assuming the algorithms are correct, is that Californians don't search for entrepreneurs/entrepreneurship as much as people in other states because they don't feel like they need to know. They think they have figured it out already, or they have someone to ask.

What it doesn't explain, however, is the presence of Massachusetts at the top of the list. The state is not exactly a stranger to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, but it is still beating a path to Google searches on the subject.

Other thoughts? And yes, I know this is a little wonky.

Related Articles

  18.0 Conclusion: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  17.0 What Needs to be Done - Mainstreaming Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  Entrepreneurship Is Very Closely Associated With Your Risk Taking Abilities
  7 mistakes, and 7 keys to successful entreprneuership.
  10.1 The education system: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
  Pure Entrepreneurship
  Updated: The Age/Entrepreneurship Myth
  1.0 What is known and what needs to be done: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  Entrepreneurship Spirit
  New Age Entrepreneurship
  6.3 Limitations of Enterprise Survey data for gender analysis: Gender Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Africa 2007
  Entrepreneurship
  Ingredients of Entrepreneurship
  Business and Entrepreneurship Passion not required
  Its Time For Women To Lead in America in Entrepreneurship
  Advanced Entrepreneurship
  Entrepreneurship/Business Environment
  12.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm Corporate Governance: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  Importance of Entrepreneurship
  Inside Intel: Success Factors of a Company that Inspired an Industry

Related Forum Posts

Re: Did you reach your goal this year?
Re: Did you reach your goal this year?
Is this a good opening letter?
Re: Did you reach your goal this year?
Re: Hi there! I'm Shanuna Cortez

Share this article. Fund someone's dream.

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

What makes a business culture?

Get Free Publicity Through Community Events

Being cultrepreneurs

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.