Women are starting businesses at a record rate, but the number that break a million in revenues is flat. What's up with that? The start-up rate of women-owned businesses is soaring while the number in the big leagues—well above $1 million in revenue—is stagnating, according to The American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses Report .
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(Yes, really.) For a start-up boom, a city needs an explosion of tech talent. Nicole Carter breaks down Detroit's entrepreneurial education system
Read More »Introducing the One-Sector Economy
Entrepreneurship can fix many of our economic woes, explains the author of The Coming Prosperity. Here's his thought-provoking metaphor for our current economy. How should you think about the relationship between established, large businesses and scrappy upstarts like the one you’re trying to build?
Read More »We’re in a recession. Go start a company.
Members of the Millennial generation say they're ready to start companies, but the soft economy is stopping them. Bad excuse
Read More »Women-Led Startups Are The Key To New Job Creation: Report
So says a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. "If we’re looking for an answer to jobs," Kauffman vice president Lesa Mitchell tells us, "it’s right in front of our face." The country is in a recession, and Washington is tangling over how to create new jobs , but, according to a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there’s a fairly simple potential source of them sitting right under our noses.
Read More »Meeting Some Very Smart People
Editor Jane Berentson discusses her recent visit to the headquarters of The Kauffman Foundation, which opened its first charter school in August. For years, my colleagues and I have consumed research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation the way nonfoodies consume fine restaurant meals—appreciative of the product's quality but not especially curious about its source. Kauffman, one of the 30 largest foundations in the United States, fosters entrepreneurship with grants, research, education, and policy recommendations
Read More »The New Kids on the Block
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »Which States are Start-up Hotbeds?
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.
Read More »Study: Start-up Rate at 15-Year High
In 2010 , Americans started their own businesses at the highest rate in 15 years—but they were more apt to go at it alone, says a new study.
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