Tag: "Kauffman Foundation"
The Venture Capital Market is Broken
That’s the conclusion reached by Kevin Drum over at Mother Jones (I know, I know, but you’ll find he is a thoughtful analyst, really). He is reviewing a new report by the Kauffman Foundation: The basic answer, I think, comes early on in the report: Investing in venture capital in the early to mid-1990s generated [...]
Economics Bloggers See Economy Weakening
The Kauffman Foundation produces a quarterly survey of economic bloggers to get their sense of the economy’s condition. The outlook, as they say, isn’t brilliant: (KANSAS CITY, Mo.), July 28, 2011 – Optimism is out; pessimism is in among the country’s top economics bloggers as they look to 2012 and beyond, particularly regarding jobs. A [...]
The Missing Jobs
A new study sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation suggests that part of the reason we are in the mess that we’re in is that, sometime early this century, start up companies stopped producing as many jobs as they had in the past: The new study, the next in a continuing series on firm formation and [...]
What do successful entrepreneurs look like?
Well, for one thing, they are a lot older than you think. This according to research by Vivek Wadhwa, a Duke University researcher who worked with the Kauffman Foundation in 2009. As reported in the Huffington Post: Wadhwa’s survey of over 500 startups operating in “high-growth industries” showed that the average founder of a successful [...]
