{"id":3785,"date":"2018-04-17T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:54:14","slug":"the-cities-where-nearly-half-of-tech-workers-want-to-be-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/the-cities-where-nearly-half-of-tech-workers-want-to-be-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: The Cities Where Nearly Half of Tech Workers Want to Be Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants to be an entrepreneur? It\u00a0depends on where you live.<\/p>\n<p>People in Los Angeles, New York,\u00a0Dallas and Houston showed the highest rates of wanting to start a new business in the next five years (44% or more), according to the latest reading of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/130-do-you-plan-to-start-your-own-company-in-the-next-5-years\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing query<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparably<\/a>. People in Minneapolis (33%) and D.C. (35%) had the lowest rates.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people responded to the query, predominantly from the tech sector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/130-do-you-plan-to-start-your-own-company-in-the-next-5-years\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3788 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/lwo.jpg\" alt=\"lwo\" width=\"485\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/lwo-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/lwo.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 85vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Gen Z and Millennials are all about entrepreneurship<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Forty-five percent of workers aged 18 to 35 say they plan to start their own company in the next five years, highlighting an opportunity for companies to offer more intrapreneurial experiences for employees, according to the latest reading of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/130-do-you-plan-to-start-your-own-company-in-the-next-5-years\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing query<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While most of them won&#8217;t actually do so (young people aged 20-34 have been shown to have the lowest rates of starting new businesses, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauffman.org\/microsites\/kauffman-index\/profiles\/entrepreneurial-demographics\/national?Demographic=Age&amp;Report=StartupActivity\" target=\"_blank\">Kauffman Index 2017<\/a>), the data suggests employers could benefit by creating more opportunities for employees to be involved in building products and services from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p><b>Smitten with entrepreneurship<\/b><\/p>\n<p>People aged 26 to 30 showed the most desire to start a business (47%). The desire to start a new business dropped off after age 35, falling to a low of 31% among 51 to 55 year olds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/130-do-you-plan-to-start-your-own-company-in-the-next-5-years\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3786 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/glo.jpg\" alt=\"glo\" width=\"374\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/glo-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/glo.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 85vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Men vs. women<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Men were more likely than women to want to start a business in\u00a0 the next five years (44% vs. 36% of women).<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/130-do-you-plan-to-start-your-own-company-in-the-next-5-years\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3787 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/100.jpg\" alt=\"100\" width=\"487\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/100-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/100.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 85vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of April 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants to be an entrepreneur? It\u00a0depends on where you live. People in Los Angeles, New York,\u00a0Dallas and Houston showed the highest rates of wanting to start a new business in the next five years (44% or more), according to the latest reading of an\u00a0ongoing query\u00a0by\u00a0Comparably. People in Minneapolis (33%) and D.C. (35%) had the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/the-cities-where-nearly-half-of-tech-workers-want-to-be-entrepreneurs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[75,144,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6421,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/6421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}