While the year started with some hopeful employment numbers, job creation is trending in the wrong direction.
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 05.08.2012
In case you were wondering, yes, there is an ideal place to start your small business. According to a new survey from the Kauffman Foundation and Thum...
Geri Stengel | Posted 04.18.2012
Changes now, in attitudes, awareness and culture could end the stagnation of small women-led businesses and make them into the economic drivers we need.
Jason Grill | Posted 04.10.2012
The City of Fountains has been praised as a great place to live, work and visit for many years, but recently it is becoming a hot bed for entrepreneurial investment, high culture and the innovations of the future.
Geri Stengel | Posted 05.27.2012
Nice girls do fire people. If they don't do what's needed, they aren't helping the business or the employee. Being tough or, as it's called when men do it, assertive and strong, is good business if done right.
Alana Muller | Posted 04.22.2012
Above all, great entrepreneurs are optimistic. Their passion, their belief, their can-do attitude all lead to a positive vision for the future. In fact, you might wonder, what is better than an optimistic entrepreneur? The answer: Many optimistic entrepreneurs!
Reuters | Posted 02.09.2012
(Reuters - By Darren Dahl) - Chris Mok, like many Americans over the past few years, lost his job in the wake of the Great Recession. While Wok, 46...
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 01.31.2012
Move over, E-Trade baby and Go Daddy girls. There's a new Super Bowl ad in town, and it's the first of its kind. The Kauffman Foundation, a privat...
The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 01.03.2012
Carl Schramm, the president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a leading entrepreneurship advocacy group, is stepping down. Schramm, ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.29.2012
Judging by his actions, it seems that Barack Obama is becoming one of the most anti-small business presidents in U.S. history. People need to stop listening to what he says and start watching what he does.
Jonathan Ortmans | Posted 01.14.2012
What Global Entrepreneurship Week is showing us is that nascent entrepreneurs are already wired to think across borders and increasingly have more in common with each other than their own cultural elders.
Paul Kedrosky | Posted 12.31.2011
Apple has created a kind of interplanetary weapon that has the capacity to quickly raze entire planets -- or at least entire companies. Startups constantly forget this. While it's nice to imagine creating whole new markets, most new markets form by shrinking old ones.
Reuters | Posted 12.19.2011
(By Deborah L. Cohen) - Nick Cronin moved to Chicago from Milwaukee to stack the entrepreneurial deck in his favor, hoping to leverage the city's impr...
Nick Seguin | Posted 12.12.2011
The classic top-down approach to job creation is deeply flawed. It's not enough to simply put more people on payroll. For the economic recovery to truly take off, we need companies that are innovative, disruptive and scalable. The most effective action governments can take to support job creation is to create conditions that support individual entrepreneurs.
Jeff Bussgang | Posted 12.03.2011
Despite the partisan rhetoric and bickering, the last few months have seen substantial progress amongst policy makers in the areas of helping the startup economy thrive.
Ted Zoller | Posted 01.14.2012
For entrepreneurs in the United States, and for all of us who support them, a wake-up call is in order. We need to work harder at learning and practicing the global game than we've done so far.
Thom Ruhe | Posted 11.12.2011
Founders like Brian Scudamore remind us that rather than breakthrough ideas accelerated by loads of venture capital, it is often simple solutions to everyday problems, combined with years of persistence and business-building, that lead to entrepreneurial success stories.
Robert E. Litan | Posted 11.12.2011
America can get the infrastructure it truly needs without adding to the deficit if policy makers would enable the private sector to do the job.
The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 11.09.2011
With the latest Department of Labor statistics revealing no net increase in jobs for the first time in 11 months, the Kauffman Foundation has released...
Thom Ruhe | Posted 10.24.2011
Life's greatest rewards start by making a choice to actively participate in our own lives instead of simply observing them. So what's holding you back?
Thom Ruhe | Posted 10.16.2011
For the next eight weeks, we'll look at the world through the eyes of "Ice House Entrepreneurs" who will describe in their own words the opportunities they found, the challenges they faced and, more importantly, the mindset that enabled them to succeed.
Carl J. Schramm | Posted 09.19.2011
It's time to re-start America by jump-starting our startup engines of growth. We have no time to waste.
Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 08.17.2011
Universities want to make money, but are often clueless about the effort it takes to bring an idea to the marketplace. The problem of innovation and universities is similar to what corporations are facing today.
Lesa Mitchell | Posted 08.06.2011
The range of ideas submitted to business competitions is amazing. But too many innovations are sitting on the shelf; let's move them into use.
Nick Seguin | Posted 07.23.2011
How do you develop an entrepreneurial community? Omaha is a model that is critical to the success of new companies.
Job Creators Alliance | Posted 05.10.2012