When I started working at the Kauffman Foundation in 2003,1 had no idea I would come to consider myself a member of the statistical community. I was hired as a research assistant for the new vice president for research, Robert Litan, who was coming to Kauffman from the Brookings Institution. Litan was brought on to lead a major expansion of research and policy funding on entrepreneurship, the Kauffman Foundation's flagship topical focus. To improve research, a change in the data infrastructure was needed, as well.
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