Kauffman Foundation’s Schramm on ‘Three Things’ entrepreneurs do

Lest entrepreneurs toiling away on nascent ventures begin to lose hope or start to doubt the importance of their undertakings, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today supplied a nice dose of motivation — and reminder of the importance of entrepreneurs — in the form of a three-minute video. Sure, the video is intended less as…

Video from kauffman.org

Lest entrepreneurs toiling away on nascent ventures begin to lose hope or start to doubt the importance of their undertakings, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today supplied a nice dose of motivation — and reminder of the importance of entrepreneurs — in the form of a three-minute video.

Sure, the video is intended less as a motivational tool and more an educational piece to promote the Startup Act, a proposal the Kansas City, Mo.-based Kauffman Foundation unveiled in July that’s designed to jump-start the U.S. economy and increase job creation by accelerating the growth of startups. The video’s release today comes on the heels of a U.S. Department of Labor jobs report showing no net increase in jobs for the first time in 11 months and in the face of a continued high rate of unemployment. 

But, whether it’s education or motivation you seek, the video is worth a three-minute chunk of your day.

In the video, a “Kauffman Sketchbook” production entitled “Three Things,” Kauffman president and CEO Carl Schramm (left, photo from kauffman.org) outlines — you guessed it — three things that entrepreneurs do: push innovation, create jobs and produce all new net wealth. 

“America and the world will, as long as human beings walk this planet, need innovators, need inventors, need entrepreneurs,” Schramm says in the video.

The video is part of the bigger Startup Act push, a nonpartisan effort that aims to focus the attention of citizens and policymakers on the central role that high-growth startups play in the U.S. economy and to foster the creation of legislation aimed at helping startups. 

For more on the Startup Act, see our previous coverage of the effort: 

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