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‘Subtle shifts’ in entrepreneurship. Montana is #1

On average, Americans launch 465,000 businesses each month, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation says in a new update to its ongoing study on U.S. entrepreneurship. While that monthly average didn’t change from past reports, the study still found that "subtle year-to-year shifts in the gender, demographic, geographic and ethnic make-up are changing the public face of the American entrepreneur."

By Jim Hopkins USA Today

Full Story: http://blogs.usatoday.com/smallbiz/2007/05/study_subtle_sh.html?csp=34

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Startups Across America

How many new businesses are created each year? A new Kauffman Foundation study tracks entrepreneurial activity in the U.S.

by Jeffrey Gangemi
Small Biz

The rate of business creation in the U.S. held steady at 290 adults out of every 100,000 creating new businesses each month between 2005 and 2006, suggesting that nearly 465,000 people created new businesses on average per month. That’s according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, an annual study that measures business startup activity for the entire U.S. adult population at the individual owner level. The Kauffman Foundation, a private organization in Kansas City, Mo., that promotes entrepreneurship, plans to release its annual Index, which it first commissioned in 2004, on May 23.

Full Story: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/may2007/sb20070523_138444.htm?campaign_id=rss_smlbz

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