Globe and Mail
Wired Women of Canada: Sarah Prevette, connector
Globe and Mail
In August 2009, a startup sent me a promo gift that is still dropping leaves in my hallway. While some new businesses print t-shirts, Sprouter decided to give away something that would keep on growing. The tiny plant they sent to my Liberty Village ...

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ManCans' Hart Main: A 13-Year-Old Entrepreneur Invents Candles for Men
AOL Small Business
For a startup, ManCans is doing well, averaging 300 orders a week. And if it takes a while for the Marysville, Ohio-based business to grow to the point where it's selling 3000 or 30000 candles a week, Main has time. After all, he's only 13. ...

Champagne And Easy Money: The Web's Young Stars Confront Another Bubble
Huffington Post
For three days in April just off the coast of Miami, the ship served as the venue for this year's Summit Series, an invite-only business conference that draws some of the world's most successful Internet startup founders. ...

Forbes (blog)
The Coming Disruption: Teen Knowledge Work
Forbes (blog)
“You must sink $40000-$200000 in start-up costs (formal education), and incur $20,00o-$100000 of debt, before you compete.” One of the hallmarks of markets ripe for disruptive innovation is a cost structure that is wildly out of touch with rapidly ...

The Guardian
Skype: from start-up to $8.5bn sale
The Guardian
Spring 2003: Skype is founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, two technology developers and entrepreneurs. The pair had already made their name by creating Kazaa, a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program which – rather like Napster – proved ...

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Former lapdancer turns life around to become successful entrepreneur
Scottish Daily Record
With no credit history, it wasn't easy to get start-up costs but Sian was determined and used her savings. She also got support from Business Gateway Aberdeen City and Shire who helped her set up Soul-Pole gym. Sian married Yomi Ajose, ...

NOLA.com
Six local startups pitch their ideas at Launch Fest
NOLA.com
Meanwhile, Startup America, which helped get Launch Pad Ignition off the ground, will continue to provide valuable resources to New Orleans' entrepreneurs in the form of free tech tools and software, among other benefits. ...

For The 15th Year Palo Alto Software Supports Leading US Business Plan ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
MassChallenge is part of the Startup America Partnership, a nationwide alliance of business, nonprofit, and private sector leaders working to increase the success of high-growth enterprises in the US All MassChallenge entrants receive access to ...

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How the Feds can help entrepreneurship
Fortune
"The Startup America: Reducing Barriers event is a regional platform that allows federal agencies to hear directly, from entrepreneurs and local leaders like you, how we can achieve our goal of reducing the barriers faced by America's entrepreneurs. ...

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ConTraps Part II – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs
The Business Insider
As every entrepreneur knows, it is easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask permission. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Often, a BDC will attempt to force your startup to accept language that is not quid pro quo. ...

How the feds can help entrepreneurs
Fortune (blog)
"The Startup America: Reducing Barriers event is a regional platform that allows federal agencies to hear directly, from entrepreneurs and local leaders like you, how we can achieve our goal of reducing the barriers faced by America's entrepreneurs. ...

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Silicon Valley Bank backs TechStars
Boulder County Business Report
BOULDER - TechStars, the Boulder-based entrepreneur mentorship and startup accelerator, and Silicon Valley Bank announced Monday they have reached a sponsorship agreement that will help TechStars' startups build their businesses and ...
TechStars Welcomes National Sponsor Silicon Valley BankPR Newswire (press release)

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Gluster Named Top 50 Startup at TiECon 2011
Business Wire (press release)
Gluster will be honored at TiEcon 2011, the world's largest conference for entrepreneurs, with thousands of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, industry executives and thought leaders. TiEcon will be held May 13-14, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention ...
Sococo Named Top 50 Startup at TiEcon 2011PR-USA.net (press release)

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Pathways to B2B People Success
B2B News
Finding temporary or even part time help to get a startup off the ground can bring an entire fledgeling company to life. Consider a career in recruiting for b2B franchises and entrepreneur entities getting staffed.

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Jaime Ellertson Joins Yankee Group's Board of Directors
Virtual Strategy Magazine
Yankee Group today announced that successful serial entrepreneur Jaime Ellertson is joining its board of directors. Ellertson is CEO and founder of Cloudfloor, a startup serving the emerging enterprise cloud computing market. ...
Jaime Ellertson Joins Yankee Group's Board of DirectorsEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

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UCP start-up programme
Business Cornwall Magazine
Programme manager Chris Phillips said the first Open Day was a great success. “It's been fantastic to hear about some really great business ideas and meet Cornwall's newest entrepreneurs,” he remarked. “The Open Day was buzzing with excitement as it ...

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Apptio Named to 2011 TiE50 List of Promising Startups
SYS-CON Media (press release)
Being named to the TiE50 marks the third award for the company this month, as Apptio's CEO, president and co-founder, Sunny Gupta, was recently named the Seattle 2.0 Startup CEO of the Year and is currently an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year ...

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You're the Boss: This Week in Small Business
New York Times (blog)
Stanford start-up mOasis wins $75000 for water tech innovation. The fastest-growing start-up fund firm ever launched has already raised $6 billion. FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS ARE UP, SERVICE IS DOWN Jim Tompkins, supply chain expert, says that rising food ...

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London's Tech City appoints start-up mentor
Computer Business Review (blog)
"By working with great mentors such as Kevin Eyres, start-up entrepreneurs will get extra support to grow into the successful, globally competitive businesses the UK needs to deliver balanced economic growth." London's Tech City is focused around the ...

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Tech startups want 'right fit' with investors
ZDNet Asia
A successful relationship, according to him, requires the venture capitalist to work closely with the startup's management team to develop a strategy and guide the execution of the business. Investors adopt a more hands-off approach only when a startup ...