Last year the Kauffman Foundation, a think-tank focused on entrepreneurship (and which provided initial funding for Mr Case's partnership), released a report explaining that new firms typically create about 3m jobs in America each year.
Kaufmann is a surname with many variants such as Kauffmann, Kaufman, and Kauffman. In German, the name means merchant. It is the cognate of the English Chapman (which had a similar meaning in the Middle Ages, though it disappeared from modern English). Often it is a Jewish Name. "Kaufmann" may refer to: