Melrose Jewelers: Recent USC MBA Graduate Krishan Agarwal Leads Online Luxury ...
Marketwire (press release)
Los Angeles local, Krishan Agarwal began his successful online retail store, MelroseJewelers.com, originally as a hobby to help fund his education while completing his MBA at the University of Southern California. He saw an untapped area of the luxury ...

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Brainstorming for New Startup Ideas: A Framework to Spur Creative Thinking
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
If you are a serial entrepreneur starting to look for an idea for your next startup, you are likely to want a way to stimulate your brain to come up with as many good ideas as possible. This blog post outlines a framework that is designed to fire up ...

Penn Olson
Skype Ex-founder, Niklas Zennström to Speak in Singapore This Friday
Penn Olson
One of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, Niklas Zennström, will be speaking in Singapore this coming Friday. About: “Zennström is best known for his success in Skype, where he held ...

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How Much Money Do You Need To Start Trading Full-Time
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
It's a consensus agreement among entrepreneurs that a business plan is essential for anyone starting a business. How can you reach your destination – if you don't know where you are going? Most don't question this wisdom, especially if start-up funding ...

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Colorado entrepreneur brews chai business
IBTimes Hong Kong
It's surprising growth for a venture that began by chance with virtually no startup capital. During an extensive family tour of India in 2002, Eddy fell in love with chai, a sweetened tea drink infused with ginger, cardamom and other spices that is ...

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Y Combinator Success Leads To Copycats, Incubator Raiders
Wall Street Journal (blog)
And in perhaps the incubator's biggest success story to date, Salesforce.com Inc. agreed in December to acquire three-year-old hosting start-up Heroku Inc., for $212 million, after the Y Combinator-incubated company had raised only $13 million in ...

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Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Williams To Lead Life Magnetics
Xconomy
This time Williams will lead Life Magnetics, a startup developing a desktop diagnostic device that uses disposable cartridges to rapidly test bacterial infections. The device will determine how bacteria responds to antibiotics within eight hours of ...
Jeff Williams jumps from Accuri Cytometers to promising University of Michigan ...AnnArbor.com

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Keen On… Scott Harrison: Do You Know How To Build a Successful Non-Profit Brand?
TechCrunch
Does founding a non-profit organization require the same skills as founding a traditional start-up company? Are the most successful social entrepreneurs as skilled in personal reinvention as the top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs? Yes and yes. ...

SingleHop Sponsors Entrepreneurs Unpluggd Conference
eReleases (press release)
Dan Salcedo, Director of Communications for SingleHop, commented that “as a startup and one of the fastest growing companies in our industry, we understand that while hard work and determination are key components to a successful startup formula, ...

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Blackstone Charitable Foundation Commits $3.6 Million to Create Blackstone ...
Stockhouse
The project plans to have 30 start-up entrepreneurial ventures this year alone. I'm proud of the talent that we have here and anticipate this intelligent collaboration to be very successful." "By helping innovators make the Research Triangle home, ...

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Blackstone Charitable Foundation Commits $3.6 Million to Create Blackstone ...
Business Wire (press release)
The project plans to have 30 start-up entrepreneurial ventures this year alone. I'm proud of the talent that we have here and anticipate this intelligent collaboration to be very successful.” “By helping innovators make the Research Triangle home, ...
Duke Joins Initiative to Spur JobsDuke University

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Start-up Team from Olin College Places in Top Three at Stanford ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The BASES|BT Bootcamp is an all-expenses-paid trip to Stanford University-including food, lodging and travel-for 110 undergraduate and graduate student delegates deemed to have the potential to transform their startup ideas into successful ventures. ...

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Appeal of being own boss grows for young entrepreneurs
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Jay Pickthorn/Argus Leader - This year: Loans to start businesses have outpaced loans to existing businesses; 51 percent of loans have gone to startup businesses. - Last year: That compares with 32 percent of loans going to startups at the same time ...

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You're the Boss: This Week in Small Business: The Ratings Go Down, But Will ...
New York Times (blog)
Six successful entrepreneurs share their keys to success in a new video series launched by ADP and the Small Business Administration. Ben Huh, chief executive of the Cheezburger Network, discusses the business of humor. An American Express Open survey ...

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New York: The Next Innovation Hub
Xconomy
These entrepreneurs have been smart enough and resourceful enough to rebuild their success stories of the 1990s or pursue their next startup idea. Fast forward to now, and these are the people, along with many …Next Page » Habib Kairouz is a managing ...
Building a startup in a developing country: The pitfalls and opportunitiesThe Next Web

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Angels focus on female entrepreneurs
The News Journal
"Many women entrepreneurs trying to get financing from a small number of women angels results in a lower success rate," said Sohl. "One of the goals is to get more women angels." There are nine US women-focused groups of angel investors, who generally ...

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Young entrepreneurs
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Emily Spartz / Argus Leader È This year: Loans to start-up businesses have outpaced loans to existing businesses; 51 percent of loans have gone to start-up businesses. È LAST year: That compares with 32 percent of loans going to start-ups at the same ...

Hype can't help hatch incubator: NextWave unable to float capital, changes plan
Crain's Detroit Business
Sloan was an early member of the Michigan Venture Capital Association and along with brother Rich founded Startup Nation, a company providing a variety of services and products to entrepreneurs that is now based in San Francisco. ...

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Jakarta Globe
Facebook Cofounder Urges Singaporean 'Technopreneurs' to Focus on Indonesia
Jakarta Globe
Experienced senior executives from successful tech start-ups are needed to mentor local entrepreneurs, as well as the presence of successful tech start-up firms that act as role models, he added. “This is what differentiates Singapore and Silicon ...

RTE 'Dragon' launches Longford start-up support fund
Sunday Business Post
A €1 million 'Dragons' Den' type investment fund for startup businesses has been set up by a group of Longford investors. The Longford Business Angel Network will be launched by entrepreneur Sean Gallagher, one of RTE's Dragons, On Wednesday. ...