Sampling Minority Business Owners and Their Families: The Understudied Entrepreneurial Experience*Footnote^*

* The 2003 and 2005 National Minority Business Owner Surveys (2003 and 2005 NMBOS) were conducted by Minority Business Research Group via two major research projects. The first project was the “2003 National Minority Business Owner Survey, Whites and African Americans (2003 NMBOS)” which was funded by GreenPoint Financial Corporation. The 2003 NMBOS was managed by Alvin N. Puryear, Edward G. Rogoff, Myung‐Soo Lee, and Ramona K. Z. Heck at the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship, Baruch College. Interview questionnaires, originally developed by the Family Business Research Group relative to 1997/2000 National Family Business Surveys (1997/2000 NFBS), were adapted.

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