Early-stage business owners' confidence is climbing, according to the first-quarter 2013 Kauffman/LegalZoom Startup Confidence Index, released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom.
Eighty-four percent of entrepreneurs said they are confident or very confident in their companies' prospects for profitability in the next 12 months, which is the highest confidence level since the survey launched early last year and reflects a 1 percent increase over the fourth-quarter 2012 survey. Furthermore, confidence levels of the youngest entrepreneurs – those 18 to 30 years old – started to rebound, as 96 percent reported they were confident or very confident that their businesses' profitability will increase in the year ahead, a 3 percent jump over fourth quarter 2012.
"The findings of this survey from quarter to quarter provide an important gauge for entrepreneur sentiment, which plays a significant role in their business decisions," said Dane Stangler, director of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. "This also is a way to give entrepreneurs, who are as diverse as their companies, a collective voice."
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