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- William Jewell College Receives $500,000 Grant from Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to Build Entrepreneurial Programming
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Posted On:
4/24/2013
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William Jewell College has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to develop an entrepreneurship model for its campus community.
- New ID8 Nation Web Channel Features Vibrant Entrepreneurial Communities in US Cities
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Posted On:
4/18/2013
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Cities across the United States are looking for lessons on how to build entrepreneurial communities to help fuel their economies. ID8 Nation, a multimedia channel launching today on the Kauffman Foundation website, entrepreneurship.org, explores cities' entrepreneurial ecosystems to provide insights on what grows in them and why. The first city profiled is Pittsburgh.
- Six Myths About Venture Capital Offer Dose of Reality to Startups
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4/16/2013
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Venture capital is the exception, not the norm, as a funding source for startups. More VC-backed new companies fail than succeed, and since 1999 VC funds have barely broken even. Those are just some of the myth-busting facts revealed by Diane Mulcahy, director of private equity at the Kauffman Foundation and a former VC herself, in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review that focuses on entrepreneurship.
- New Kauffman Video Sketchbook Extols the Value, Shares the Strategy of Networking
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Posted On:
3/20/2013
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As representatives of more than 100 entrepreneurship organizations from around the world gather this week in Rio de Janeiro for the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC), idea sharing and networking are surely high on participants' agendas. For those seeking to make the most of networking opportunities on-site and when they return home, today's GEC Fringe Session, "Build Your Entrepreneurial Network," will provide practical, actionable steps to help attendees maximize their time and efforts.
- Successful Education Program Connects Kansas City Entrepreneurs through High-Value, Low-Cost Events and Word-of-Mouth Recruiting
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Posted On:
3/13/2013
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In what some might consider an ironic twist, technology seems to play a lesser role in building a local entrepreneurial community for startups than good old-fashioned face-time and word of mouth. That’s one of the key findings in a new paper released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation that surveyed participants in 1 Million Cups (1MC), Kauffman’s popular entrepreneur educational program launched in Kansas City, Mo., last year.
- 1 Million Cups from Kauffman Labs Ready to Perk Up Entrepreneurs in Reno and Cedar Rapids
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Posted On:
3/12/2013
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1 Million Cups, an education program created by Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation to bring together and engage entrepreneurs, has added two more cities to its expanding map. Kauffman Labs is a program of the Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
- Winner Named in Global Desktop Factory Competition
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3/4/2013
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The inventor of a machine that turns plastic pellets into affordable filaments for low-cost 3D printers is the winner of the first Desktop Fabrication Competition, a global contest sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, Maker Education Initiative and Inventables.
- New Kauffman Foundation, LegalZoom Survey Captures Rare Picture of America's Startups
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Posted On:
2/28/2013
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Data on newly formed companies and their founders are hard to come by, but a vital component to measuring economic health. In an effort to learn more about the challenges facing today’s entrepreneurs, LegalZoom and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation surveyed 1,431 business owners who formed their companies through LegalZoom in 2012.
- Startup Visa Could Create Up to 1.6 Million U.S. Jobs in Next 10 Years, According to Kauffman Foundation Report
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2/27/2013
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Startup Visas would unleash a torrent of entrepreneurial energy among foreign-born individuals in the United States, according to a white paper released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The report, “Give Me Your Entrepreneurs, Your Innovators: Estimating the Employment Impact of a Startup Visa,” said that offering the visas has the potential to add, conservatively, between 500,000 and 1.6 million new jobs over the next 10 years.
- Kauffman FastTrac Receives Sponsorship from AARP to Pilot Entrepreneurship Course for Baby Boomers in 3 U.S. Regions
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Posted On:
2/25/2013
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Baby boomers residing in New York City, Southern California and South Florida may soon find it easier to pursue their dreams of entrepreneurship thanks to a new sponsorship agreement between Kauffman FastTrac and AARP. In an outreach to its membership, AARP has agreed to underwrite the bulk of expenses for 60 aspiring entrepreneurs age 50+ to enroll in a Kauffman FastTrac course.
