US start-up visa: Why entrepreneurs are dumping Dollar dreams
Economic Times
After working with eBay for some years and launching his first start-up (a telecom services portal), Sureka traded entrepreneurial mecca Silicon Valley for Delhi last November. Packing up his home and returning to another continent with his ...

Feld: Entrepreneurs must lead, be active
Boulder County Business Report
Feld, a serial entrepreneur, managing director of the Foundry Group venture capital firm and a cofounder of the TechStars startup accelerator, said that while governments and universities can bring entrepreneurs together, creating a sustainable ...

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Insurance, Entertainment for Startups and Entrepreneurs
Tubefilter News
The latter will feature successful startup founders – including pete Cashmore (Mashable), Scott Belsky (Behance), Adam Rich (Thrillist), Michael Lazerow (Buddy Media), Josh Williams (Gowalla) and David Karp (Tumblr) – discussing their own small ...

Reed announces plan for women entrepreneur center
Atlanta Journal Constitution
At a luncheon this week, he announced a plan to help some of the smallest: startup women entrepreneurs. Reed said he wants to provide office and conference room space to 20 women business owners at no charge. The facilities would be located in the ...

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Wherefore Art Thou Angels? Boston Startup Scene Gears Up for Angel Bootcamp on ...
Xconomy
Last year's inaugural boot camp drew about 275 people—mostly investors and aspiring angels, but also plenty of entrepreneurs, as well as leaders from universities, government, and the media. As indicators of its success, one could point to a handful ...

GeekWire
Geek of the Week: Arianna O'Dell -- entrepreneur, marketer, startup sparkplug
GeekWire
Arianna O'Dell, GeekWire's latest Geek of the Week, has an infectious entrepreneurial spirit, a mind for marketing, and a million startup ideas. Not to mention a pretty impressive collection of shirts. Continue reading for pictures of those, ...

IBM Helps Entrepreneurs Empower Patients With Tools To Improve Personal Health
PR Newswire (press release)
SmartCamp Austin is part of the IBM Global Entrepreneur initiative, which is designed to bring new technologies to market faster that tackle some of the world's most pressing issues. The five Austin finalists were selected from 150 start-up companies ...

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Domain.com Gives University of Portland's $100k Challenge Participants Free ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Students from diverse majors formed 24 teams to compete for the startup funding. They presented and answered questions from a panel of entrepreneurs, investors, business professionals, and also a representative from the sponsor, Domain.com. ...

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Launching Today: Zaarly.com - a Location-Based, Real-Time Commerce Platform
Benzinga
All three men are described as “serial entrepreneurs with more than a dozen startups under their belts.” Zaarly was conceived and prototyped in February 2011 at Startup Weekend Los Angeles, a 54-hour event aimed at entrepreneurs and technologists. ...

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The Business Insider
The Best Thing That Happened To My Startup Was Gaining Exposure Outside Of My ...
The Business Insider
Founded by Scott Gerber, the Young Entrepreneur Council is a nonprofit organization that provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, community and educational resources that support each stage of their business's development and ...

Search for the top dogs in new businesses
nebusiness.co.uk
A NORTH-EAST entrepreneur is launching a ground-breaking startup business awards to celebrate the success of new enterprises in the region. Frustrated by the lack of business awards tailored specifically for startup ...

Globe and Mail
Teen biz whiz reveals the secrets to his success
Globe and Mail
Over the past five to 10 months, he's been working on the company's flagship startup – Rayku.com – a peer micro-tutoring platform that allows students to share and ask for education help in real time. Once connected, the users are immediately placed in ...

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Entrepreneurs Succeed With Small Business Resources in Enterprise Appalachia
PR Newswire (press release)
This is evidenced by the surge of successful start-up companies who have put the state's abundant entrepreneurial resources into action. SenSource, Inc., a Youngstown, Ohio-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-tech sensors and controls, ...

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Taking 'baby' to tech market
Atlanta Journal Constitution
There is Ross Rankin, called the “adult supervision” at 40, with the street cred of a successful startup veteran who's “been there and done that.” One of two parents in the group, he has a 9-year-old son who he hasn't been seeing as much as he'd like. ...

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Rediff
Start-ups: Five steps to sureshot success
Rediff
Two years of observing close to 1000 start-up entrepreneurs have given me some insights (or so I think!) on what makes one start-up entrepreneur succeed vis-a-vis another. While there are many views circulating in the market, I have attempted to put my ...

Canada's The Indus Entrepreneurs turning Indian immigrants into millionaires
Economic Times
Giving the latest example of successful entrepreneurs mentored by Indian techies, Madan said: "Just last November, Indo-Canadian Haroon Mirza sold his start-up Cognovision to Intel for $25 million. An engineering graduate, Mirza had a vision, ...

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Wired News
Y Combinator Is Boot Camp for Startups
Wired News
They are attending Interview Day, a chance to compete for a spot in what has become the tech world's most prestigious program for budding digital entrepreneurs. The interviewees include former product managers at Google, a Midwestern accountant, ...
Paul Graham To Hold Y Combinator “Office Hours” At TechCrunch Disrupt. Apply Now!TechCrunch

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Paul Graham To Hold Y Combinator “Office Hours” At TechCrunch Disrupt. Apply Now!
TechCrunch
One of many things that make Y Combinator special: They hold regular “office hours” with startups where entrepreneurs can get advice on any topic, from business strategy to design issues. What we talk about at office hours also depends on the startup ...
Y Combinator Is Boot Camp for StartupsWired News
Paul Graham To Hold Y Combinator “Office Hours” At TechCrunch Disrupt. Apply Now!Washington Post

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Why You Should Build Your Startup To Sell Like Radian6
The Business Insider
The entrepreneur must have a long-term mentality and consistently bring to the table those core characteristics that are crucial to building a successful company: passion, ambition, leadership, adaptability and coachability. ...

Entrepreneurs Get Answers and Business Advice from Experts
BusinessNews Express (press release)
Some people may not feel they have enough experience, education or knowledge to be successful. Startup Expert was created to help those people. “Startup Expert is geared towards people looking to start their own business and entrepreneurs who are ...

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