Newsroom: National News Archive 2004

August 29 - September 4

Big or small, the rules are still the same
Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte,NC
Babson College and the Kaufman Foundation has released the findings of a new study that shows entrepreneurial activity in the United States is improving after a two-year decline... <MORE>

How Entrepreneurship & Ecology Together Can Protect and Improve Your Bottom Line
Earth Times - USA
How can we: Diversify but not lose our focus, Broaden our economic base, Increase our income, and Provide Benefit to the environment and to society... <MORE>

National leader in entrepreneurial education to direct center...
Indiana University (press release) - Bloomington,IN
... The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has named Donald F. Kuratko as executive director of its Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation... <MORE>

Small Business Equals Big Impact; Celebrating 20 Years...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
/PRNewswire/ -- Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center celebrates its 20th year of helping build businesses in the Bay Area, especially in economically... <MORE>

UW Entrepreneurship Award Presented to Sammamish Company
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
/PRNewswire/ -- The University of Washington Business School awarded its annual Technology Management MBA Alumni Entrepreneurship Award to Sammamish Business... <MORE>

Class of 2008 Reports to Business "Boot Camp"
Howard University Hilltop (subscription) - Washington,DC
... Established last year with a $3.1 million dollar grant from the Kauffman Foundation, the boot camp promotes entrepreneurship through a series of activities... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship, freshman programs rank highly
Ball State Daily News - Muncie,IN
Ball State's entrepreneurship and freshman programs have been ranked among other top programs from schools throughout the nation, according to US News and... <MORE>

Galesburg Entrepreneurship chief counting on creative minds
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL
... the city of Galesburg. That is the belief of Dick Johnson, manager of the new Galesburg Entrepreneurship Center. Johnson used to... <MORE>

Investment 'Angels'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI
... coming out of the woodwork is new," said Marianne Hudson, who is managing a new angel investing initiative at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas... <MORE>

Recent gift makes Skandalaris name synonomous with entrepreneurship... 
Washington University in St. Louis (press release) - St. Louis, WA
... In Dec., 2003, the University was awarded a $3 million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation expressly for that purpose... <MORE>

Access to Venture Capital Remains Pressing Issue for Women...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... However, despite this statistic, female entrepreneurs historically have received only 4 to 9 percent of available venture capital, a disproportionately low... <MORE>

September 5-11 

Not content to stay on the bench
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO
... He and Illig extolled the entrepreneurial spirit at a 25th anniversary breakfast Wednesday at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation... <MORE>

More than ever, startups pray for an ‘angel'
Kansas City Star - Kansas City,MO
Large investment firms have almost abandoned startup businesses, which now must rely on friends or “angel investors” for financing, according to a study released Wednesday... <MORE>

Teaching Kids about Money: Why It's Not Just Fun and Games
Knowledge@Wharton (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA
... the rudiments of free markets, entrepreneurship, credit, spending... and kids can "start a dialogue about money...  <MORE>

Study: Informal investors lead startup financing
Bizjournals.com - USA
... $108 billion in financing for small business startups in 2003, up 4
percent from $104 billion in 2002, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation said Wednesday... <MORE>

HCC offers crash course for entrepreneurs
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville,NC
A 10-week course titled Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning will equip budding entrepreneurs with the tools and skills to successfully launch a new... <MORE>

Founders, Family, Friends, and Fools
BusinessWeek - USA
... The study was sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City. A copy of the report is available at gemconsortium.org or www.kauffman.org... <MORE>

Launching Without Venture Capital
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... "It's difficult when you have a business plan that requires a lot of upfront capital to get started. I found ways to deal with that difficulty."... <MORE>

As economy improves, venture capital flows
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ
... year earlier to $5.8 billion, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree... <MORE>

September 12-18

Entrepreneurial Research Center Established at KU
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO
... "The formation of this ... and director of the Center for Economic and Business Analysis at PRI. "Kansas has a great tradition of spawning new enterprises," said ... <MORE>

MBAs Convene in Houston for Weeklong Economic Message of Hope...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... And according to the Kauffman Foundation's Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) African American men, with graduate experience between the ages of 25 ... <MORE>

USHCC Foundation's Youth Entrepreneurship Program Goes Online ...
TMCnet - USA
The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) Foundation's signature Youth Entrepreneurship Program is going online -- boosting the ... <MORE>

Bill Shore encourages partnering and social entrepreneurship
Cornell University News Service (press release) - Ithaca,NY
... This so-called social entrepreneurship involves partnering with corporations and building nonprofits that invest in themselves so that the organization will ... <MORE>

CPAI president wins Entrepreneurship Award
Emediawire (press release) - USA
... Muhammad. "It is my hope that this award will motivate other aspiring African-American women to take a stab at entrepreneurship." <MORE>

University of Michigan... to Host 'Entrepalooza 2004...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... student-led Entrepreneur and Venture Capital Club, will host its annual symposium, "Entrepalooza 2004: Expanding the Horizons of Entrepreneurship," on Sept... <MORE>

SBA Region V Economic Roll Out Tour to Hit the Midwest
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
...This question along with others can be answered in a new report "21st Century Jobs and Entrepreneurship in the Midwest: A Study Capturing the Future of the... <MORE>

Chicago West Side Entrepreneurship Center Launches INNOVATE Illinois...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA
The Chicago West Side Entrepreneurship Center, a partnership between Chicago Community Ventures and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and funded by... <MORE>

The Nuts and Bolts of Entrepreneurship
BusinessWeek - USA
...are wonderful resources available for those who want to learn business: community college and university programs that focus on teaching entrepreneurship in a... <MORE>

On Money Trail: Entrepreneurs Head West To Talk Funding
Local Tech Wire - Fort Mill,SC
...of AM Pappas; Kathy Harris of Noro-Moseley Partners, Charles Moreland of the NC Biotechnology Center; and Marianne Hudson of the Kauffman Foundation’s Angel... <MORE>

Tri-State University Establishes Entrepreneurship Minor
Inside Indiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN
...Engineering and Technology and the Ketner School of Business at Tri-State University will offer students the opportunity to pursue a minor in entrepreneurship... <MORE>

VC Money for Start-Ups Continues to Dry Up
Inc.com - New York,NY
...vital energies from their companies at a critical time," said Marianne Hudson, executive director of Angel Capital Association, a Kauffman Foundation program... <MORE>

Fifth Annual Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Underway
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
Michigan residents interested in starting a high-growth business or those that are leading an emerging high-growth company are encouraged to register... <MORE>

September 19-25

Industry Leaders Gather in Boston for First-Ever Forum on Corporate Venture Capital...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA
... The conference, "The Role of Corporate Venture Capital," includes leaders from Fortune 200 companies such as IBM, Boeing, Siemens, Applied Materials, Eastman ... <MORE>

SBA Region V Economic Roll Out Tour to Hit Ohio
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
22 /PRNewswire/ -- Regional Administrator Patrick Rea will present the findings of a recent report "21st Century Jobs and Entrepreneurship in the Midwest... <MORE>

College students control own destiny by playing the boss
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL
... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was just awarded $4.5 million from the Kauffman Foundation to promote entrepreneurship classes throughout the...

What's your major?
Cincinnati Post, OH
... on that.". Further, at a time when Donald Trump is a poster boy for reality TV, entrepreneurship has become a popular major. A 1970... <MORE>

September 26 - October 2  

Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest to Host First Free Training...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
...kicks off its Fall Cycle training schedule next week with a "double-header" presentation that includes... an educational session on market analysis...  <MORE>

Where's the money?
Bizjournals.com - USA
... $108 billion in financing for small business startups in 2003, up 4 percent from $104 billion in 2002, according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation... <MORE>

Sales growth helps you grow the business
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA
... Be prepared to constantly seek out new business that can help increase... nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and... <MORE>

OSU reopens hall as entrepreneurship center
Portland Business Journal - Portland,OR
... in Corvallis has transformed a defunct, historic residence hall into a specially designed home for nearly 300 students in OSU's Austin Entrepreneurship Program... <MORE>

College entrepreneurs getting major attention
Press Herald - Portland,ME
... According to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a nonprofit that supports entrepreneurship, at least 1,500 colleges and universities provide training for ... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship program makes the grade
Austin Business Journal - Austin,TX
The Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship program in Austin was given high marks by the Princeton Review. Among the nation's business schools ... <MORE>

Program to give guidance to region's entrepreneurs
The State - Columbia,SC
FastTrac is a proven entrepreneurial education course that has been developed by the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo ... <MORE>

A new kind of living and learning
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR
... The first universities to teach entrepreneurship began in the 1970s, when the federal government started giving money to schools to help small business owners... <MORE>

Venture Capital: Startup turns on a dime to Microsoft
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA
One of the virtues of being a startup company is having the flexibility to quickly change direction when opportunities arise. That was certainly the case for Beon Media... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship blooms
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA
By Gary Metivier. MOST young men and women dream of a future as a firefighter, health care worker, even president (or maybe... <MORE>

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