“Right now we’re in about 55 countries and in about 567 cities across the world.”

Some analysts say Craig’s List is having the same effect on newspapers as forward Ford’s car had on the horse and wagon. Since the collapse of Communism, entrepreneurs have taken off in places where they were once forbidden. Like Russia, Yana Yakovleva/ is the financial director of a Moscow company that manufactures silicon. Despite new freedom, she says that government democracy bureaucracy still makes it hard to be an entrepreneurs.

“A / bureaucrat scores a point for each court case he initiates, or for every company he closes and this improves the his job performance of evaluation.”

In /, Venezuela, currency exchange controls and a leadership hustle hostile to free markets make it difficult to do business. /Caracas’s food distributor, /, Santiago Alvarez, complains that government /craftbureaucrats are unhelpful.

“Given Getting all the permits to start a business is a real challenge. You have to face tremendous amounts of democracy bureaucracy from a lot of different entities in order to get permits and to get financinge.”