Research data from nearly 700 growing entrepreneurial businesses report in the 1999 survey that entrepreneurial firms committed to an aggressive sales growth strategy achieve sharply higher gains than their counterparts in market share, efficiency, profitability and net worth.
The study from the Kauffman Foundation investigates the attitudes towards education in, and knowledge of, entrepreneurship of black youth using results from a national survey that was administered to a random sample of youth, ages 14 to 19. Results indicate that black youth strongly desire to start businesses, want moreentrepreneurship taught in their schools, and believe successful entrepreneurs have a responsibility to give back to the community.
The paper deals with entrepreneurship activities that are instigated primarily by faculty members and administrators in both universities and community colleges. The role of faculty is discussed as it operates in some sectors of higher education, and the relationship between corporations and academic institutions that are based on research and entrepreneurial activities.
The report is designed for entrepreneurial practitioners and attempts to provide a more complete picture of fast growth issues and relationships than financial metrics alone provide. Researchers identified 26 leading practices of fast growth firms grouped into four sections:
Marketing, Finance, Management and Planning.
The paper from The Journal of Private Equity shows how evidence abounds that entrepreneurship will be an even more powerful force in the future.
The paper explains that healthy communities require self-sufficient people, and self-sufficiency requires economic as well as social well-being. According to the author, merging the economic and social dimensions of philanthropy is the special challenge facing foundations.
The report from the Kauffman Foundation examines the demand for entrepreneurship education and provides a rationale for inclusion of entrepreneurship education in the nations schools. According to the report, 7 out of 10 high school students want to start their own businesses.