Premiere TechWeek Conference & Expo to Highlight Innovation
Sacramento Bee
midVenturesLAUNCH will combine keynotes on entrepreneurship with a competition of the top 35 international early-stage startup companies. These companies will present to a group of successful venture capitalist and entrepreneur judges for more than ...

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Premiere TechWeek Conference & Expo to Highlight Innovation
PR Newswire (press release)
midVenturesLAUNCH will combine keynotes on entrepreneurship with a competition of the top 35 international early-stage startup companies. These companies will present to a group of successful venture capitalist and entrepreneur judges for more than ...

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UK News Reporter (blog)
Improve Your Online Business Success - Use This Tip To Help You Start Up
UK News Reporter (blog)
Few entrepreneurs make an effort to create their own business by providing presised goods or else services to online consumers, in the hope of generating strong levels of revenue. Other entrepreneurs have taken the opportunity to embrace marketing ...

Have you Considered a Startup Competition?
ActiveFilings.com
Too many new entrepreneurs have a narrow mindset when it comes to success. They believe that the way to a successful business is to plan, implement, problem solve and grow over the course of time and most understand that this blueprint is far from easy ...
Why It's Hard to Replicate Silicon Valley's Successes Abroadmsnbc.com

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Reuters Blogs (blog)
5 lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Navy SEALs
Reuters Blogs (blog)
Brendan pointed out that startup executives who go through hard times should learn to relish them, recognizing that the hard times will toughen the team and train them properly for “battle.” 80 percent training, 20 percent execution. ...

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Oasis500 Concludes 5th Wave of Startup Boot Camp
Zawya (press release)
A total of 60 ICT, mobile and digital media entrepreneurs from Jordan, Lebanon, India and the USA participated in the boot camp, which provided high-level training on all business aspects and personal competencies crucial to managing successful ...
Oasis500 and Microsoft sign partnership agreement to support startups in the ...AME Info

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Community Based Investment Presented as a Solution to the Capital Crunch
Small Business Trends
Sherwood Neiss, a successful entrepreneur and Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) member, in conjunction with the organization's President, Karen Kerrigan, crafted a framework called Crowd Fund Investing (CFI) that was presented to ...

Learn to 'Do the Right Thing' for Your Startup
Forbes (blog)
Yet the evidence indicates that a startup which consistently does the right thing has a competitive edge, and a higher success rate. Are you ready and willing to be the role model for the ethics of your team and your company?

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LivingSocial CEO Takes Unusual Low-Tech Path
BusinessWeek
O'Shaughnessy, 29, has used his unconventional pedigree to transform the startup into the second-biggest provider of digital deals. The four-year-old company has more than 1500 employees, up from 33 in early 2010, and expects to generate $1 billion in ...

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Soapbox Cincinnati
My Soapbox: Bill Cunningham
Soapbox Cincinnati
Q. How did you go from working at big companies like AT&T, Data General, Meditec, and Apple to being an entrepreneur? Where did it all start? Cunningham: Well, my first startup was CollegeView. There were three of us that co-founded the company. ...

Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Incubates Creators with 48-hour IdeaJam
Tubefilter News
Back in February, the actor and entrepreneur dropped by the LA edition of Startup Weekend, a 54-hour no-sleep grindfest of tech entrepreneurs tasked with taking an idea from concept to launched startup in just one weekend. Out of it came some pretty ...

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Indiana Startup Camp Seeks New Tech Ideas
midVentures
Once a startup is selected, the students involved are expected to move to Silicon Valley for a minimum of three months to participate in their program. Fergus Hurley, another entrepreneur who worked with Plug and Play to develop his photo-sharing ...

Startup America: an Initiative to Foster Innovation and High-Growth
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
By empowering entrepreneurs, and giving them the right tools and resources to control their destinies, we continue feeding the fuel that drives our economy. For more information on Startup America, visit www.sba.gov/startupamerica. ...

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Startup America: an Initiative to Foster Innovation and High-Growth
SunHerald.com
... entrepreneurs, corporations, universities, foundations, and other leaders, working in concert with a wide range of federal agencies to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of America's entrepreneurs. The main objectives of Startup ...
On a Mission to Grow America's Small BusinessesBizjournals.com (blog)
Small Business Week 2011KIVI-TV
Touting entrepreneurshipIdaho State Journal
TMC Net -Fairfax Connection
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Nonprofit plans an incubator to help green startups
Philadelphia Inquirer
But it is assistance for local entrepreneurs who, on their path to financial success, are also willing to dedicate their business to doing good by environmental and social standards - otherwise known as the triple bottom line of people, planet, ...

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Steve Case: Entrepreneurs Must Focus on Passion
GigaOm
Startup America is generally focused on “celebrating and accelerating” entrepreneurs across all sectors and geographic regions of the US by providing tools to help them grow, Case told me. “We particularly help people in the speed-up phase, ...

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The False Choice Between Babies And Startups
Forbes (blog)
In the ensuing months, I met with everyone and read everything that I could get my hands on about how to be successful as a startup tech entrepreneur. During this process I came across a blog post by Paul Graham, prominent investor and co-founder of Y ...

Syracuse.com
Entrepreneur Scott Case: Five things to consider when starting a business
Syracuse.com
For a MoneyWise series on becoming an entrepreneur, The Post-Standard asked Case, now the CEO of the Startup America Partnership, to elaborate. By Scott Case, Contributing writer “So, what's the magic formula for creating a successful new startup? ...

Ford Freestyle vehicle in safety investigation
Reuters
Now entrepreneur Stephen Bennett is looking to cash in with startup EarthRisk, which has developed a tool to predict hurricanes, snow storms, heatwaves and tornadoes well before they happen. Full Article | Video DETROIT (Reuters) - US safety regulators ...

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Red Nova Labs hosts "Venture Fridays" for Web/App/Game Entrepreneurs
Kansas City Star
Successful entrepreneurs focus on others—customers, partners, shareholders... and yes, peers.” Red Nova Labs is a web tech and marketing company that started in 2009 and has grown to employ more than 20 people in the last year. ...

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