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New Kauffman Sketchbook examines changing nature of knowledge
Samuel Arbesman says there’s a regularity to how knowledge changes. “And hopefully that’s the kind of thing that can provide a certain amount of comfort to people,” he says. “I think it also is really exciting that knowledge is changing.” Arbesman, a senior scholar at the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, discusses the…
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Brad Feld outlines “Boulder Thesis” in Kauffman Sketchbook (Video)
Brad Feld spoke earlier this month at Thinc Iowa, and we will release full video from Feld’s talk sometime next week. But for those who didn’t catch the former and can’t wait to see the latter, we have something to hold you over, courtesy of the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and its…
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Litan looks at “Better Capitalism” in Kauffman Sketchbook (Video)
Among many of the major innovations that characterize modern life — cars, computers and air conditioning, for instance — Robert Litan sees a common thread. “They were all introduced in the marketplace by an entrepreneur, by a new firm,” Litan says. “We need an economy that generates these new firms.” In a video released last…
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In new video, Kauffman fellow looks at funding of women-owned firms
Women own about 30 percent of businesses but access only about five percent of the equity capital doled out each year, Alicia Robb says in the latest installment of the Kauffman Sketchbook series. In the Sketchbook, Robb (left), a senior research fellow at the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, explores the challenges women…
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Kauffman FastTrac president pitches program in new Sketchbook
The latest installment of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s animated Sketchbook Series illustrates one of the Kansas City, Mo.-based foundation’s own programs. In the Sketchbook video, which is entitled “Go Fast, Grow Fast” and was released on Friday, Kauffman FastTrac president Alana Muller describes the organization …
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Noam Wasserman talks taking ‘the leap’ in new Kauffman Sketchbook
Aspiring founders should carefully consider career circumstances, market circumstances and personal circumstances before they take the leap into an entrepreneurial venture, Noam Wasserman cautions in the latest installment of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s animated Sketchbook Series. The video, entitled “Take the Leap,” was released late …
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O’Reilly’s challenge in new Kauffman Sketchbook: ‘Make it happen’
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation earlier this week released the latest in its line of animated sketchbook videos. This one features Tim O’Reilly (left), the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, which is responsible for MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire, sharing his thoughts on the importance of makers. O’Reilly’s remarks, which he made at …
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Kauffman Sketchbook: Kansas City is the ‘City of Entrepreneurs’ (Video)
“The entrepreneurial spirit in Kansas City,” says one of the video’s narrators, “is stronger than the lines that separate us.” That narrator, Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James, is referring to the state boarder separating the Missouri and Kansas sides of Kansas City. And though the state line has served as a point of contention…
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Kauffman Sketchbook explores where entrepreneurs get money (Video)
The folks at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation have released another of their signature animated sketchbook videos, and it’s one that will likely leave proponents of boot-strapping businesses nodding their heads in agreement. Paul Kedrosky, a senior fellow at the Kansas City-based Kauffman Foundation narrates the video, entitled “Money Game.” …