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Robert Litan


Growth Is in Overdrive on This Year’s Inc. 500

Companies that create jobs create the future, as Inc. 500 companies have been proving for 30 years. See these people here? Now it’s their turn.

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Recent Articles about Robert Litan

How Important Are Startups to the Economy?

Without the jobs new companies create, yearly employment growth would be negative.  Read more

Western States Home to Most Startup Workers

The West leads the country in percentage of their population employed by startup companies.  Read more

Immigrants Driving Startup Growth

A study shows more businesses were launched last year, though fewer by women.  Read more

Study: Start-ups Create Lasting Job Growth

Though only a fifth of start-ups survive long-term, they replenish the employment market, Kauffman's Robert Litan reports.  Read more

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read more

Obama Unveils Jobs Plan

Last night the president laid out the American Jobs Act, an initiative aimed at lowering unemployment. What does it mean for small business owners and entrep...  Read more

Tech Entrepreneurs Older

A study finds more technology firms are launched by middle-aged college grads.  Read more

Blogging for Entrepreneurs

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

TrendWatch: Jobs Jobs Jobs

Introducing TrendWatch, a weekly video series about the most important topics you need to know to run your small business now. This week: What Obama's jobs p...  Watch video

New Businesses Staying Afloat

Despite weak revenue most U.S. startups survive beyond their first year, a study finds.  Read more

The Immigrant Advantage

Immigrants have always provided the U.S. with its entrepreneurial advantage. It's time that the country again commit itself to tap the best and brightest--wh...  Read more

A Haven For Virtual Companies

Behind Vermont's unlikely ploy to attract online businesses  Read more

Almost a Tax Plan

The budget deficit is deadly serious. Tax reform should be too.  Read more

Study: Business Churning Beneficial

New research finds economic gains whenever new businesses replace older ones.  Read more

Op-Ed

Why democracy is America's second most valuable export  Read more

Inc. 500

Half-a-thousand reminders that business ingenuity and economic leadership still start with entrepreneurs.  Read more

Skilled Immigrants Returning Home

Many U.S.-educated foreigners are returning home to start businesses.  Read more

Op-ed: Foreign Students Who Study Engineering Deserve Citizenship

It's time that we stop envying China, and start making the U.S. a friendlier place for engineers.  Read more

Seventeen Workers and $60 Million in Sales

The Inc. 500's greatest contribution.  Read more

Goldman, Buffett to Aid Small Business

Two icons of bull-market Corporate America team up to finance and support 10,000 small businesses.  Read more

Reverse Brain-Drain?

A lack of work visas for skilled immigrants could result in a reverse brain-drain and a subsequent decline in U.S. competitiveness, a new study sh...  Read more

Study: Start-ups Smaller, Creating Fewer Jobs

Kauffman Foundation analysis shows even successful small businesses aren't adding jobs at the rates they did in previous decades.  Read more

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read more

There's More Than One Way to Bust a Trust

The Microsoft case proves the resilient power of the market.  Read more