Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published November 6, 2026
A path to career success is growing outside of the traditional route of entering the workforce.
Studies, including one by the Bank of America Institute, find entrepreneurship has become one of the fastest-growing career pathways. Roughly 6.6. million American adults started a business in 2025.
Eric Parker, president of the Make StartUps Institute in downtown Augusta, reviewed the reports and believes entrepreneurship is an industry that’s hiding in plain sight. It has been a reversal over the last 40 years, which had seen a steady decline in entrepreneurship rates.