The studies examined geographic trends of firms included in the 1982 to 2010 Inc. 500 lists to analyze for the first time how regional characteristics are associated with high-achieving companies and innovations.

Potential job creators – U.S. small business owners – do not view high tax rates as the biggest barrier to their success; it’s the complexity of the tax code that they find most troublesome. Other key concerns they have include overly complicated regulations and licensing requirements.

Stories of soldiers’ service and courage abound, but until now, little has been known about veterans’ role in one of America’s most important fields: entrepreneurship. 

Tracking Annual Changes in Employment for Growing and Shrinking Businesses There are more than 6 million establishments with paid employees in the United States. These businesses are dynamic: opening and closing, adding and losing employees. Funded by the Kauffman Foundation, in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies, the Business Dynamics Statistics […]

Resilience, innovation and a unique perspective on risk taking are just three of eight critical factors that separate the very best entrepreneurs from others, according to Ernst & Young LLP, which honored America’s top entrepreneurs at its 26th annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® gala in Palm Springs on Saturday, November 17.

Kansas City has many of the attributes it needs to become an entrepreneurial hot spot: talented innovators, investors and large firms specialized in technology and life sciences. The problem is, Kansas City is not aware of those assets. Yet.

The pace of recovery in hiring and job creation since 2008 is stronger in newer firms — those two years old or younger — than in more established companies, according to this report.

High-skilled immigrants have provided one of America’s greatest competitive advantages. Their education and skills, their hunger to share in the American dream, their knowledge of world markets, their entrepreneurial drive, and hundreds of thousands of jobs created as a result all have fueled growth in the American economy. Yet their contributions have not been well-documented. […]

This paper discusses investment options for entrepreneurial ventures and discusses appropriateness of private equity as an option.

This study finds that the number of high-tech, immigrant-founded startups — a critical source of fuel for the U.S. economy — has stagnated and is on the verge of decline.