Jordan is an analyst in Research and Policy for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Jared Konczal is an analyst in Research and Policy with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Thanks to Carl Schramm, Robert Litan and the legacy of Ewing Marion Kauffman himself, new directions beckon.
This past June, Carl Schramm the President and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation went further.
"There's something long-term at work here, " says Dane Stangler, research director at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo.
The foundation, named after late entrepreneur Ewing Marion Kauffman, focuses on promoting the development of companies that supporting entrepreneur-friendly policies.
FORBES: Stanford Accelerator StartX Receives $800,000 Grant From Kauffman Foundation
In fact, according to a study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, these Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom.
Litan is vice president for research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, www.kauffman.org, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has shown that much of the job growth in America in recent years has come from startups.
FORBES: DOL Proposal Will Hurt Venture-Funded Startup Companies
This all dovetails with a new report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that found young firms are leading the recovery in job creation.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a nonprofit that studies startups, estimates that the rate of new business formation in the U.S. has fallen to a record low.
FORBES: Wall Street's Hollow Boom: With Small Business And Startups Lagging, Job Recovery Unlikely
With the launch of a new web-based portal called iStart, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is making it even easier and cheaper for universities and non-profits to administer business plan competitions.
FORBES: Creating Competition Among Business Plan Competitions
Mr Schramm, who, as head of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City pays for a lot of research into the subject, argues that America needs to do more to maintain its entrepreneurial edge.
The 2013 Thumbtack.com U.S. Small Business Friendliness Survey released this week from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and local-services marketplace site Thumbtack.com provides the first comparative benchmark on the relative business friendliness of the climate in major U.S. cities.
FORBES: You're (Un)Welcome: Best and Worst Cities for Business 2013
This recent story by The Wall Street Journal's Angus Loten noted that startup-ups are now being launched with an average of 4.9 employees, down from 7.5 in the 1990s, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo. research group.
Fifty-four percent of the nation's 18-to-34-year-olds either want to start a business or have already started one, according to a survey by the Young Invincibles, a group focusing on young entrepreneurship, that was funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a research group.
The Kauffman Firm Survey, an effort by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to track the cohort of new businesses started in 2004, revealed that 47 percent of the founders of surviving firms believed their businesses had a competitive advantage when they were surveyed six years after starting.
On the whole, women make up 10 percent of the founders of high-growth tech companies but manage to raise 70 percent less money than men because they cannot access capital, according to Lesa Mitchell, a department vice president at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as reported in the New York Times in June, 2012.
FORBES: Overcoming Bias: Simple Advice for Women Raising Money
On average, 20% of start-ups fail within their first year, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which also conducts an annual study on entrepreneurial activity in the U.S. Its newest report, due out next month, is expected to show that start-up volume in the U.S. increased by just a few percentage points in 2011, just as it did in 2010, 2009 and 2008, says E.
应用推荐