Sampling Minority Business Owners and Their Families: The Understudied Entrepreneurial Experience* by Alvin N. Puryear, Edward G. Rogoff, Myung-Soo Lee, Ramona K. Z. Heck, Elissa B. Grossman, George W. Haynes, and Joseph Onochie *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 question- naires, originally developed by the Family Business Research Group relative to 1997/2000 National Family Business Surveys (1997/2000 NFBS), were adapted. The second project was the “2005 National Minority Business Owner Survey, Korean Americans and Mexican Americans (2005 NMBOS),” which was funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The 2005 NMBOS was also managed by Alvin N. Puryear, Edward G. Rogoff, Myung-Soo Lee, and Ramona K. Z. Heck at the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entre- preneurship, 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 as well as translated for “in-language” interviews. An earlier draft of this manuscript was presented at the 2003 and 2005 National Minority Business Owner Surveys (2003 and 2005 NMBOS) Invited Research Conference on October 26 and 27, 2006, held at Baruch College, New York, New York, and also funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. We are grateful to Ivory Phinisee for extensive work on these data sets and for computer analyses associated with this paper. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful and productive comments. Alvin N. Puryear is Lawrence N. Field Professor of Entrepreneurship and professor of management at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Edward G. Rogoff is professor of management at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Myung-Soo Lee is professor of marketing at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Ramona K. Z. Heck is Peter S. Jonas Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Elissa B. Grossman is assistant professor of management at Baruch College of the City University of New York. George W. Haynes is professor of agricultural economics and economics at Montana State University. Joseph Onochie is associate professor of economics and finance at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Address correspondence to: Edward G. Rogoff, Box B9-266, Department of Management, Baruch College, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010. E-mail: Edward_Rogoff@ baruch.cuny.edu. Journal of Small Business Management 2008 46(3), pp. 422–455 JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 422