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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation || September 23, 2009
Kauffman Foundation Spearheads First-Ever Entrepreneurs' Movement

Washington and Kansas City, Mo. (September 23, 2009) – The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today officially launched "Build a Stronger America," a movement to unite entrepreneurs and help give them a stronger voice in the public discussion about the country's economic future. Read the full article

UMKC The Bloch School || September 22, 2009

UMKC Bloch School Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ranks in Top Tier Nationally for Entrepreneurship

Kansas City, MO (September 22, 2009) – Surpassing more than 2,300 schools surveyed by The Princeton Review, The UMKC Bloch School’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IEI) was recognized as having one of the top 25 graduate entrepreneurship programs in the country. Read the full article

Kansas City Business Journal || Steve Vockrodt || September 4, 2009

New Dean Tan wants to make Henry W. Bloch School of Business an Entrepreneurial School

Tan wants to thrust the concept of entrepreneurship — a staple of the Bloch School’s approach — into nearly every aspect of the curriculum as part of a plan to build local and national stature. Read the full article

Kansas City Business Journal || Editorial Staff || September 4, 2009

UMKC Bloch School's Dean Tan Means Business

Entrepreneurism won’t simply be on the lesson plan at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s business school. It’s at the top of its game plan. Read the full article

The Kansas City Star || Kevin Collison || July 14 , 2009

Office Space Succeeds with Entrepreneurs

Four months after opening OfficePort KC in the Crossroads Arts District, Shaul Jolles is finding there’s a good market for entrepreneurs needing cheap space to set up shop.
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The Kansas City Star || Suzanne King || April 7 , 2009

Can’t find a job? Hire yourself

Experts say a growing number of workers being handed pink slips are deciding that starting a business — as difficult as it is — may be more promising than trying to find another job. Read the full article

The Wall Street Journal || Naomi Schaefer Riley || April 4 , 2009

Carl Schramm: Giving Capitalism Its Due

Carl Schramm doesn't buy the idea that some businesses are "too big to fail." That notion, says the president of the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation, only creates obstacles for entrepreneurs. Instead, he sees the failure of big companies as the "moment when 1,000 flowers can bloom." Read the full article

The Kansas City Star || Jason Gertzen || March 10, 2009

Officials try to lure more entrepreneurs to KC area

Bob Marcusse increasingly is looking for entrepreneurs who want to come to Kansas City. One of the region’s top economic development leaders, Marcusse noted last week how the Kansas City Area Development Council has expanded its focus in recent years. Marcusse, the development council’s president and CEO, said he now has 14 early-stage businesses among the companies in his pipeline of prospects. Read the full article

The Kansas City Business Journal || Jerry LaMartina || March 7 , 2009

Commerce Secretary Locke: Adversity encourages innovation

The federal government has “an enormous task, a great sense of urgency to get America moving again, to get America employed again,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Thursday in Kansas City. “Great adversity makes us rethink fundamental assumptions,” Locke told a group of about 125 people at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. “It encourages us to innovate.” Read the full article

The New York Times || Thomas Friedman || Feb. 21, 2009

Start Up the Risk-Takers

“You want to spend $20 billion of taxpayer money creating jobs? Fine. Call up the top 20 venture capital firms in America, which are short of cash today because their partners — university endowments and pension funds — are tapped out, and make them this offer: The U.S. Treasury will give you each up to $1 billion to fund the best venture capital ideas that have come your way.” Read the full article

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