Weekly Update from Build A Stronger America - Issue 24 - March 29, 2010
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Kauffman Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Five Must-Haves of An Entrepreneurial Career
Podcast: Gregory Waldorf, CEO of eHarmony, shares the lessons he's learned from having an entrepreneurial career. Listen to the podcast>>
Featured content from Entrepreneurship.org
What Has Your Entrepreneurial Career Been Like? Is entrepreneurialism in your blood? Tell your new business counterparts about your experience and insight. Tell
us what you think on BuildAStrongerAmerica.com>>
Notable Foundations Join Forces to Support Accelerated Drug Development Model
Entrepreneurs in the business of discovering new drugs could accelerate the process with a different drug development model. That's why the Kauffman Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Scott Cook & Signe Ostby Foundation last week jointly announced grants totaling $10.3 million for the Myelin Repair Foundation (MRF). The three foundations announced their support of MRF's unique approach to drug development to make innovators aware of the model and to attract funding from other philanthropies. Read the release>>
SHARE THIS STAT - It's all about taking risks. Entrepreneurs surveyed for the 2009 Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: Making of a Successful Entrepreneur study indicate the biggest barrier stopping people from starting their own business is their lack of willingness or an inability to take risks - 98 percent said this was an important, very important or extremely important factor.
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