Your Economy

GrowthEconomy.org adds congressional districts!!

03/08/2013 - Coming to a congressional district near you:

A partnership between the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), the Edward Lowe Foundation’s Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies and PitchBook, GrowthEconomy.org enables visitors to see sales and job growth data of private capital-backed companies versus other companies in the U.S. economy.

In addition to being able to sort data at national, state and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) levels, GrowthEconomy visitors can now drill down to 435 congressional districts.

“For the first time ever, people can see more than 23,000 private capital-backed companies in their respective congressional districts — and follow their performance through time,” says Gregg Cole, information technology research leader at the Edward Lowe Foundation, who built GrowthEconomy.org's dynamic engine and interface.

ACG has also released a book that graphically depicts data from GrowthEconomy for each congressional district. “Driving Growth,” which is organized by state, has been distributed on to all members of Congress, state governors, the media and academics. The book is available in PDF format at no charge. To download a copy, click here: (16MB .pdf)

YE gets 2010 calendar data and a bit of a dust up

02/19/2013 - Attention, data geeks:

YourEconomy.org (YE) has just added 2010 data! You’ll also notice numerous upgrades on the website that include new graphs, smoother navigation and more accessible help files — all based on user feedback.

But wait, there’s more good news! By summer we’ll be unveiling a redesigned YE that’s even more elegant and easy to use. The makeover will also include a new service for creating custom regions — and best of all, it adds data for calendar years 2011 and 2012, along with rolling quarterly 2013 data.

You may not like seeing extra years show up on your birthday cake, but you’ll love them on YE.

The Job Creation Shell Game

01/25/2013 - YE data is used for a “Good Jobs First” publication with our own Andrea Signore acknowledged!

Entitled "The Job Creation Shell Game", looks at States who pursue business attraction strategies.  The study, in their words "describes how state and local governments waste billions of dollars each year on economic development subsidies given to companies for moving existing jobs from one state to another rather. It also looks at how the existence of relocation subsidies emboldens some large companies to demand large job subsidies to stay put. The report offers policy recommendations to address the problem."

Read The Job Creation Shell Game that makes use of YE relocation data.

Data Buffet, Ignitions, and Raps

12/07/2012 - Top business publications are already featuring John Paglia and Agus Harjoto from Pepperdine and their paper “Did They Build That? The Role of Private Equity and Venture Capital in Small and Medium-sized Business” published through the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC).

Check out the Wall Street Journal Data Buffet blog Private Equity Beat

Check out Business News Daily

From Crain’s Detroit Business Private equity, venture capital get a bad rap

Who Really Creates the Jobs

11/26/2012 - An article from Inc. by Bo Burlingham  called "Who Really Creates the Jobs?" features Gary Kunkle and the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC) research.

Check it out: Who Really Creates the Jobs

Global Entrepreneurship Congress

10/31/2012 - Update! Check out the paper presented at the International Research and Policy Roundtable, an event focused on developing national and/or regional policies for high-growth entrepreneurship.

The Edward Lowe Foundation through the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies IEGC and YourEconomy.org participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, in Liverpool, UK by providing custom research for an abstract on high-growth entrepreneurship policy.

IEGC Research Published in Inc.

08/22/2012 - An article from Inc. by Kimberly Weisul called "6 Classic Ways to Crash Your Company" in which she primarily cites Gary Kunkle, research fellow at our very own Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC), as he leads the effort on new IEGC research examining sustained growth companies.

Check it out; 6 Classic Ways to Crash Your Company

No Man's Land and the Economics of Growing Middle Market Companies

07/11/2012 - The Impact of Private Equity at the Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors summer conference on July 11, 2012.

Doug Tatum - Chairman of the advisory panel of IEGC a research institute funded by the NASDQ and Edward Lowe Foundations, and Mark Lange - Executive Director of the Edward Lowe Foundation shared the results of the organization's (growtheconomy.org) work recently completed on the dynamics of the US middle market economy and companies stuck in No Man's Land – struggling with the fact that they are "too big to be small and too small to be big".

Check out the blog and video; It's the Middle Market, Stupid! - AM&AA Winter Conference

Innovative Data Sources for Regional Economic Analysis

05/10/2012 - Mark Lange and Gregg Cole from the Edward Lowe Foundation and Dr. Don Walls of Walls & Associates were invited to exhibit YE and NETS at the first Innovative Data Sources for Regional Economic Analysis Conference held May 7 and 8 at George Washington University’s Marvin Center. More than 50 exhibitors and 260 participants attended the event.

The conference was held to raise the awareness of economic policymakers, practitioners, and researchers about innovative private and public data sources and tools useful for regional economic development analysis and policy.

GrowthEconomy.org Launched

05/03/2012 - The Association for Corporate Growth® (ACG), the global organization focused on driving middle-market growth, and the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC) from the Edward Lowe Foundation, announced the launch of GrowthEconomy.org, a web site that provides visitors with data comparing the sales and job growth of private capital-backed companies versus the U.S. economy.

GrowthEconomy.org usues the YE data display engine matching large volumes of information and bringing it to you via a friendly web interface.

For more information, read the ACG Press Release, or visit growtheconomy.org.

Middle-Market Growth Policy Summit

03/22/2012 - The Association for Corporate Growth® (ACG) held the inaugural ACG Middle-Market Growth Policy Summit at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. on February 29, 2012. The Summit engaged ACG members in on public policy issues pertaining to middle-market private capital and investment.

ACG also shared a preview of a unique website showcasing the economic performance of companies funded by private capital investment. This never-before-released data combines multiple databases including the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) Database with data from PitchBook and made possible through collaboration with the Edward Lowe Foundation. This research led by Gregg Cole, Mark Lange, and Doug Tatum will be formally launched at InterGrowth® 2012, April 25-27 in Dallas, Texas. ACG Press Release (.docx download).

YE website gets major makeover

Press Release

03/09/2012 - YourEconomy.org (YE), the Edward Lowe Foundation’s unique tool for tracking economic performance, has launched its redesigned website — built from the entire U.S. NETS data set covering calendar years 1995 - 2009. The completely redesigned YE website has a number of new features on YE and YE+, the website’s subscription service. Check out the list of new stuff in the press release!

Growing State Economies

03/03/2012 - The National Governors Association’s State Profiles on Job Creation and the Entrepreneurial Environment provide information for governors and policymakers to assist them in their efforts to support job creation and positively influence the economic environment in their state. These profiles track business and employment trends over the long term as well as over the recent recessionary period in order to better understand the state economy.

To prepare the State Profiles, the National Governors Association has partnered with Collaborative Economics and the Edward Lowe Foundation to provide data and analysis on growing state economies.

Global Entrepreneurship Congress

01/31/2012 - Check out the paper presented at the International Research and Policy Roundtable, an event focused on developing national and/or regional policies for high-growth entrepreneurship.

The Edward Lowe Foundation through the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies IEGC and YourEconomy.org participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, in Liverpool, UK by providing custom research for an abstract on high-growth entrepreneurship policy.

The resulting paper will focus on national or regional policies with implications for other countries, and policies that would facilitate entrepreneurship specifically in relation to “building and scaling” high-growth businesses.

NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

Press Release

10/04/2011 - About this Marketsite Event: The Edward Lowe Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports entrepreneurship through research, recognition and educational programs, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square. The NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation supports The Edward Lowe Foundation's Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies, a new research and education institute focusing on job growth and capital access for developing companies in the United States. In honor of the occasion Darlene Lowe will ring the Closing bell.

NASDAQ OMX Grant

Press Release

05/02/2011 - Edward Lowe Foundation Receives $730,000 Grant from The NASDAQ OMX Educational Foundation for Research on Job Creation and Capital Access Establishes the New Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies to establish a new research and education institute focusing on job growth and capital access for developing companies in the United States. The institute, known as the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies (IEGC), will focus on the relationship between equity funding sources and fast-growing companies. Particular attention will be paid to high-growth companies in the second and third stage of business development, which include companies with 10-99 employees and 100-499 employees respectively.