{"id":2135,"date":"2017-03-27T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2017-03-27T21:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:01:55","slug":"bipartisan-road-trip-as-entrepreneurial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2017\/03\/27\/bipartisan-road-trip-as-entrepreneurial\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBipartisan Road Trip\u201d as Entrepreneurial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two congressmen, Democratic Representative Beto O\u2019Rouke and Republican Representative Will Hurd, are in the midst of a cross-country road trip together after snowstorms in the northeast led to flight cancellations.<\/a> They are livestreaming their trip to Facebook and Periscope, and taking and answering questions from calls and online comments.<\/p>\n

While an article by The Atlantic<\/a> deemed their efforts, in part, a \u201cbid to generate feel-good headlines,\u201d I think the their decision to livestream is notable for several reasons. First, perhaps most obviously, it\u2019s an effort to reach across party lines and find common ground. Second, their use of technology is unprecedented; by \u201clivestreaming\u201d and taking and answering questions in real time, there is little room for canned, superficial responses, and more room for genuine response.<\/p>\n

Finally, I think their endeavor also demonstrates an entrepreneurial spirit. Although livestreaming is a temporary platform, it\u2019s a non-traditional way to market their ideas (as well as themselves for future campaigns). Indeed, as The Atlantic states:<\/a> \u201cApart from the potential for sleep deprivation, the road trip is a relatively low-risk, and low-cost, way for O\u2019Rourke and Hurd to attempt to cast themselves as politicians working to advance civil, and productive, reach-across-the-aisle dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their \u201ccross country town hall meeting<\/a>\u201d is unprecedented, innovative, and fosters a broader social purpose\u2014much like entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two congressmen, Democratic Representative Beto O\u2019Rouke and Republican Representative Will Hurd, are in the midst of a cross-country road trip together after snowstorms in the northeast led to flight cancellations. They are livestreaming their trip to Facebook and Periscope, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}