The Kauffman Foundation and A Look at Today's Entrepreneurs ...

After serving in the Navy during World War II, Ewing Marion Kauffman started his career as a pharmaceutical salesperson before founding his own pharmaceutical company in his basement.  His company, Marion Laboratories, grew to become a global healthcare company until he sold it to Merrell Dow in 1989.  In addition to founding and growing a pharmaceutical company, Kauffman bought the Royals and moved them to his hometown of Kansas City.  

Through Kauffman's generosity and commitment to education & entrepreneurship, the Kauffman Foundation began its work.  The vision of the foundation is: a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged citizens contributing to the improvement of their communities.  

The Kauffman Foundation website offers a variety of information about entrepreneurship - I thought I would offer it as a resource and direct you to a couple of related links.  The first link below will take you to the Kauffman Foundation website and a quick & entertaining look at a description of today's entrepreneurs from Amy Wilkinson, author of The Creator's Code. The second link will take you to Amy's Youtube video that shares some entrepreneurial wisdom from the interviews she conducted that led to her book:  

Link 1
http://www.kauffman.org/multimedia/sketchbook/kauffman-sketchbook-cracking-the-code


Link 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3kNn461Xs

This information is hot off the press ... see Kauffman's "Newsroom" from this week! As you visit the Kauffman website and watch Amy's videos, are you imagining yourself as an entrenpreneur?