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An Entrepreneurial Win for the Future

President Obama and his cabinet secretaries visited Northeast Ohio to talk about issues, opportunities, and new ideas around entrepreneurship.

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on February 24, 2011
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Entrepreneurial mindset can exist in many ways and places

The term entrepreneur has what I like to refer to as positive brand confusion. Whereas the opinions range in scale from the billion dollar company to the life style enterprise, most people nevertheless have a positive connotation of what an entrepreneur is. This post shows that an entrepreneurial mindset can exist almost anywhere people are paying attention to problems while working towards solutions.

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on January 26, 2011
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EMKF and Huffington Post

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation launched a partnership with The Huffington Post's "Small Business America" entrepreneurship blog today by posting the first of what will be regular columns written by the Foundation's economic and entrepreneurship experts.

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on January 18, 2011
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National Entrepreneur Day Message from the Commerce Department

Throughout our history, the unparalleled freedoms that we enjoy as Americans have fueled an entrepreneurial culture that has made us the global leader in introducing new technologies and new ideas into the marketplace.

With President Obama’s proclamation setting November 14 through November 20, 2010, as National Entrepreneurship Week, today we celebrate National Entrepreneurs' Day to honor our nation’s entrepreneurs and their role as catalysts for creating new industries, businesses and jobs.

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on November 19, 2010
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From the Icehouse to Your House

Next week will witness the launch of a new and engaging learning initiative known as the Icehouse Entrepreneurship Program. Recognizing our nation’s need for greater economic participation at all levels of society, the Icehouse Entrepreneurship Program captures and conveys the “mindset” of entrepreneurs who overcame adversity and are now helping lead our economic recovery.

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on November 08, 2010
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Our energy future requires commercialization education and mentors

Yesterday the Kauffman Foundation co-hosted the Southwest Energy Summit with both ASU (host location) and the leadership team of ARPA E. We had wonderful participation from industry leaders, experienced energy VC's and university academics...

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Posted by: Lesa Mitchell
on October 20, 2010
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Summer of 2010 Recap

Summer of 2010 recap: launching of this new website and another for our FastTrac program, the commissioning of Who Owns the Icehouse book and online learning program, an incredible visit to Dhaka Bangladesh...

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on 10/1/2010
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Entrepreneurship News Roundup: Week of 8/27/10

This week we opened up the dialogue by asking the community to weigh in on the question, Can entrepreneurship be taught? We received great responses from community members on this question. Overall members agreed that...

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on August 27, 2010
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

We posted this weekend about an NPR article, Maybe Entrepreneurship Can be Taught? The article highlighted the results of a new Gallup poll which uncovered that 57% of Chinese and 51% of Americans said...

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on August 24, 2010
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Entrepreneurship News Roundup: Week of 8/20/10

During this week we covered how entrepreneurs in Youngstown, Ohio are bringing success and economic growth to their region by utilizing their local business incubator as well as...

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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
on August 20, 2010
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