Memeburn
An international perspective on SA startups [NetProphet]
Memeburn
By his own admission, Valia's success rate is a statistical anomaly: while an average of only 3% of investors successfully exit a startup via an IPO, the first company he invested in went public within just seven months. Visiting Cape Town this week to ...

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MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Awards $100000 Grand Prize to Startup ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
A panel of judges made up of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and industry professionals chose Sanergy on the strength of their business plan, presentation and field expertise in Kenya. Sanergy also netted an additional $5000 as the winner of this ...

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Cinemacraft named Top 50 Startup at TiECON 2011
India Infoline.com
These experts included globally recognized venture capitalists, CEO's, academia, and serial entrepreneurs” said Vish Mishra, Chairman of TiEcon 2011 and President of TiE Silicon Valley. “Being recognized as a TiE50 winner is a true testament to their ...

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Rapid Growth
Economic growth requires more than bright ideas and risk taking, by Carl Erickson
Rapid Growth
I don't believe we should venerate failure, but rather the ability to observe, adapt and persevere in the face of a lack of success. Successful entrepreneurs learn their way to success. Right now, in communities all across the country, the startup is ...

Venturesutra.com to Simplify Funding for Entrepreneurs
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Dr. Rajesh Srivathsa, Managing Partner, Ojas Venture Partners, said Successful Entrepreneur and Angel Investor JA Chowdary who invested in start up like Mojostreet and Indyarocks said “We expect this platform to provide opportunity for young ...

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Forbes (blog)
Renren To Face Off With A Chinese Facebook Rival in US Soon
Forbes (blog)
If it's the entrepreneur who really matters more than the money or the model behind a startup's success or failure, then the match between the two founders of competing Facebook sites in China ‒ Renren and Kaixin001 ‒ is going to be ...

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Santa Cruz Tech Raising takes aim at new startups
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Throughout Saturday and Sunday, successful entrepreneurs and experts will give presentations critical to startup and product success. Sessions are expected to cover startup law, design, user experience, management, publicity, finding customers, ...

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Program offers entrepreneur training to those who are educated but unemployed
Gainesville Sun
She said she had her doubts at first. “I'm wondering how long my savings will last and they're talking about becoming a high-tech entrepreneur,” she said. Now, though, she said, “The whole program is designed for you to become successful. ...

Entrepreneur (blog)
Obama Asks for Input from High-Growth Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur (blog)
The White House is also pulling in real honest-to-goodness successful entrepreneurs for more focused advice and leadership. Among the participants in Boulder were Congressman Jared Polis, who built successful online businesses before running for ...

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NOLA.com
Entrepreneur Update: Drop the Chalk on the funding game
NOLA.com
By Catherine Lyons Dear New OrleansJennifer Schnidman Medbery, founder of Drop the Chalk, a startup that builds software for teachers. This past month has been an exciting one for Jennifer Schnidman Medbery, founder of Drop the Chalk. ...

The Economy Of Good Enough
Mediapost.com
In the book "Startup Nation" the author writes that one of the reasons the Israeli army is so successful being so extremely small is that - there is a culture among the officers of allowing the soldiers fighting in the front to make decisions without ...

Venturesutra To Simplify Funding For Entrepreneurs
EFYTimes (press release)
Dr. Rajesh Srivathsa, Managing Partner, Ojas Venture Partners, said Successful Entrepreneur and Angel Investor JA Chowdary who invested in start up like Mojostreet and Indyarocks said “We expect this platform to provide opportunity for young ...

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Get In Shape For Women Celebrates 75th Studio and First Franchise Expo!
PR Newswire (press release)
GISFW offers you the opportunity to become a successful entrepreneur in a high growth industry." O'Koomian created and nurtured a top-10 studio in Ridgewood, New Jersey and is sprinting forward to open other locations in northern New Jersey where the ...

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Why you should build your startup to sell like Radian6
ITBusiness.ca (blog)
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. ...

Startup Leadership Program Plans Chicago Chapter
midVentures
“Instead think of us like HBS for entrepreneurs (or the Kauffman Program for entrepreneurs) where we provide a very high quality interactive education for startup CEOs and then a network to which they belong—and they keep coming back to help others ...

Coming soon: A homegrown tech entrepreneurship guide
Memeburn
“We approached successful, local entrepreneurs with the proposition that they, in turn, share their wisdom to motivate and assist others to start up and grow their businesses,” he says. “The project is for people with ideas who want to find a way to ...

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USA Today
Tech talents from India, other countries leaving Silicon Valley
USA Today
Entrepreneurs such as Bahl are relocating to India and elsewhere to fulfill their start-up dreams — and compete with the very companies they once worked for in the US The reverse brain drain is thick with irony: While talented engineers return home to ...

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Forbes (blog)
Social Entrepreneurship: The MicroConsignment Model
Forbes (blog)
Micro-credit has provided billions of dollars in start-up and growth capital to encourage micro-entrepreneurs around the world to launch their own enterprises to lift themselves out of poverty. The majority of the methods employed are designed to ...

Washington Times
Haiti's micro entrepreneurs — a lesson for US 'funemployed'
Washington Times
But here entrepreneurs don't have MBAs and they don't secure start-up financing from venture capitalists. Many, in fact, are barely making ends meet. At any time of day, groups of young men stand alert on the streets of Port-au-Prince, ready to wash ...

The Need to Reinvent Venture Capital
Huffington Post (blog)
... some of a start-up's cash capital requirements with community "enthusiasm capital." VenCorps gives entrepreneurs the ability to engage the community to help launch and develop ideas into start-ups, then into successful businesses and hire people. ...

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