The 2018 ESHIP Summit Please note that the following content is specific to the 2018 ESHIP Summit. Updates for the 2020 convening can be found here. The ESHIP Summit is an annual convening that brings together entrepreneurial ecosystem builders – leaders connecting communities to accelerate entrepreneurship. This page captures some of the highlights from the second ESHIP Summit, held July […]
Paths to Entrepreneurship As one of just a handful of private foundations with an emphasis in entrepreneurship, Kauffman has felt called to re-think its program strategies, for two reasons. The field has been changing dramatically, and the need is great. Despite a plethora of new efforts to create and support startups across the United States, startup rates actually […]
America’s New Business Plan expands what it means to be ‘pro-business’ October 15, 2019 For policymakers who want to do something to help entrepreneurs, here’s a roadmap to what they need, and it starts with opportunity, funding, knowledge, and support.
What is the measure of success? The stock market is at record-setting highs. Graduation rates are soaring. The unemployment rate is low. Advancing technology makes it easy for us to have a face-to-face conversation with someone across the globe, ask Alexa what the capitol of Vermont is, or to order a pizza without talking to anyone. So, why don’t we feel […]
The entrepreneurial energy of immigrant business owners – and the hidden barriers they face March 19, 2020 Opportunity America conducted a series of roundtables and a survey of immigrant entrepreneurs, seeking to understand the extraordinary entrepreneurial energy many newcomers bring to the U.S. and how the barriers they face are different from those confronting native-born founders.
Traveling America, the willingness to risk for real solutions is everywhere January 23, 2020 Urgency pushes us to ‘be fearless’ and take risks for bold new ideas in our towns and in our lives – particularly when there is opportunity for transformational change.
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Entrepreneurship gives hope for a generation of better days August 8, 2019 The Burgazzi family in Venezuela have watched their nation’s economic and social fabric unravel. They wait for a day of reckoning when their homeland hits bottom. When it does, they will be ready to help rebuild.
An Immigrant in Kansas Angelica Castillo Chappel sees the Somali refugees rely on their children for translation, just as she and her siblings did for her parents. Many work at the Tyson plant, just as her parents did—one worked the day shift, the other the night shift. “There’s a whole lot who started with $100 in their pocket,” Castillo […]
Connecting entrepreneurial research with policy and practice June 27, 2019 Ecosystem builders share their data questions and needs with researchers to help create actionable insights and practical tools.