Article May 10, 2010 Issue

THE ENTREPRENEUR—AND GETTING TO KNOW MARY BAKER EDDY

BY ERIC GEORGATOS

OVER THE COURSE of my professional and business career, I've spent a lot of time working as a lawyer and as an executive with "startups"—new companies led by entrepreneurs seeking to introduce new products and services to the market, often based on new technologies or ways of doing things. Sometimes they are wildly successful, and sometimes they fail. In a unique and powerful way, they have profoundly increased my appreciation for Mary Baker Eddy and strengthened my practice of Christian Science. More on that in a moment.

Virtually every startup entrepreneur encounters naysayers who claim:

• Your idea isn't that different or good—it has "this and that" wrong with it, and nobody will want it.