Why exactly is entrepreneurship important?
September 28, 2025
Taylor Overton was introduced to entrepreneurship by her parents’ small construction company.
“Payment terms being extended sometimes meant no back-to-school clothes that year,” said Overton. She’s the entrepreneurship director for the Kansas Department of Commerce. “Those realities hit home.”
Overton is cheery and boosterish, as most good economic developers are. I met her this summer at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Indianapolis. In an interview, she gently corrected my classic coastal faux pas of placing Kansas City in her state rather than adjacent Missouri. Later, at an off-site launch party she gave a full-throated shout on behalf of her state.