Visions of the past: wish you had been there

It is the kind of request that simultaneously thrills and induces panic: colleagues – nay, friends – approaching you, claiming that you are “one of the indisputable pioneers leading scholarship and thinking in entrepreneurship,” then, in the next breath, ask you to write something that “clearly articulates what were your most important ideas about entrepreneurship, what led you to develop those ideas into the literature, and what has been the impact of those ideas.”