2009
- Kauffman Foundation Study Finds More than Half of Fortune 500 Companies Were Founded in Recession or Bear Market
- A new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation finds a silver lining in today's challenging economic times: Recessions can spur entrepreneurship, which leads to the creation of much-needed new jobs.
The study The Economic Future Just Happened found that more than half of the...
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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
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June 09, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship in a Recession
- The economy has slowed down, unemployment is up, and investment has grinded to a halt - so how does an entrepreneur, in the face of all odds, continue to thrive in such a market? The truth is,...
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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
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May 12, 2009
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- The Lost Word on the Economy
- While pundits, columnists, economists, and policy makers climb over mountains of financial data, looking for signs of recovery and politically convenient scapegoats upon which we can turn a distracting public focus of populist rage and class warfare, there is a quiet but steady vibration...
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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
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April 23, 2009
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- Just what exactly are we trying to stimulate?
- Question: What written document is so expensive that it comes out to about $4,800,849 per word?
Answer: With approximately 177,052 words and a price tag of around $850 billion dollars, it is the recently approved American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – a.k.a....
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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
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April 01, 2009
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- We Get What We Incentivize
- Over the last two decades, I have been involved in several entrepreneurial endeavors that employed over a thousand people collectively. I have interviewed and hired many over that period of time, including negotiating compensation packages. The one thing I have learned from doing that...
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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
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March 31, 2009
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