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Entrepreneurs' Role in Economic Downturns
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CNBC's "Street Signs" with Erin Burnett featured a segment on how the economic downturn can spark innovation that leads to a new generation of entrepreneurial icons and job creators. Burnett interviewed Kauffman Foundation president and CEO Carl Schramm, who talked about the critical role entrepreneurs play in recessions and the increasing demand for entrepreneurial training such as the Foundation's FastTrac LaunchPad program. Burnett's other guest was Daniel Kivatinos, a laid-off information technology worker, who, after taking a FastTrac class, started his company, Dr. Chrono.

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Charlie Rose - A conversation with entrepreneur and software engineer Marc Andreessen