Entrepreneur launches group-buy food website
insideTORONTO.com
Recently, the entrepreneurs got a financial kickstart to their startup with an award, a $150000 interest-free startup loan from Queen's (University) School of Business and Prince Edward/Lennox and Addington Community Futures Development Corporation. ...

To Launch Your Business, Embrace Risk-Taking
BusinessWeek
To evaluate the merits of their startup dream and strategize about its future, aspiring entrepreneurs can sweat out business plans and huddle with experts. To prepare for the emotional roller coaster of venturing out on their own, ...

NFTE Brings Washington's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and National Leaders ...
Marketwire (press release)
In January 2011, The White House named NFTE a member of the Startup America Partnership to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of American entrepreneurs. The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (www.nfte.com) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit ...
High School Students Spend Spring Break Learning Entrepreneurship with NFTE ...PR Newswire (press release)

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How the New York City innovation community can still lose (and what you can do ...
The Business Insider
Startup success is a team effort and you can't just have great entrepreneurs. I've heard that most new angels make 70% of their lifetime investments within the first year of starting to invest--ie they splurge, then they have trouble digesting all the ...

Surviving the startup founder-to-CEO transition
Fortune
Finding those managers in a startup environment can be one of an entrepreneur's greatest challenges, said Mollick, the Wharton professor. CEOs must be very careful to hire someone with managerial experience who also is comfortable in a startup ...

Angel groups join Startup America, project aims to double number of investors
TechJournal South
“Angel capital is increasingly important to entrepreneurs and we were looking to strengthen the pool of angel investors and better connect them with startups in more communities. As many angel investors are successful entrepreneurs themselves, ...

Globe and Mail
Business plans don't help in early stages
Globe and Mail
Surveys from the Inc. 500 suggest fewer than 25 per cent of successful entrepreneurs create business plans at start-up. Those that do write them will generally stick to informal “back of the napkin” types of documents. Our own experience with high-tech ...

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Melrose Jewelers: Recent USC MBA Graduate Leads Online Luxury Watch Startup to ...
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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Launching your business: 4 common mistakes
TODAYonline
A successful entrepreneur will constantly adjust course without losing sight of the final destination. Do not shortchange your start-up when estimating the funds you will require -you will just diminish your chances of success. ...

Startup America Initiative Comes to Pittsburgh
Techburgher
... in Pittsburgh next week as part of President Obama's Startup America Initiatives. Intended as a process to hear directly from entrepreneurs about the issues that impact their success, this forum is being held on April 28 th at Chatham University. ...

TechJournal South
CORRECT: PRESS RELEASE: Ernst & Young Corrects Release
Wall Street Journal
The Startup America Partnership is an alliance of the country's most innovative entrepreneurs, corporations, universities, foundations, and other private sector leaders working to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of high-growth ...
Palindrome Advisors Joins Startup America Partnership to Support ...San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Microsoft Supports Obama's Startup America Partnership VisionITProPortal
Microsoft Works With Startup America Partnership to Support EntrepreneursPR Newswire (press release)

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NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance joins the White House Startup America Partnership
Bradenton Herald
NCWIT's role in the Startup America Partnership will include helping high-tech startups capitalize on the increased innovation and business benefits of gender diversity, and by promoting the achievements of women entrepreneurs. ...

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New business mentorship effort is available
Fremont Tribune
This mentorship effort is aimed at creating a new generation of homegrown business success stories in Nebraska. The initiative combines business-to-business mentors and a consulting program for entrepreneurs created by The Gallup Organization to help ...

Reuters
Colorado entrepreneur brews chai business
Reuters
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 ...

The Business Insider
Why I Ditched The Cushy VC World To Start Kohort
The Business Insider
Entrepreneurs want to work with people who have felt that heat of the kitchen – it makes them more valuable advisors, and more valuable investors. And if you dig into the backgrounds of VC teams everywhere you'll find both successful and failed ...

Globe and Mail
Great entrepreneurs: born or built?
Globe and Mail
The process theoretically goes something like this: An entrepreneur has a brilliant idea, writes a business plan, gets start-up funding, puts together a team, creates a product or service, and sells out to a Fortune 500 firm. ...

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NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance joins the White House Startup America Partnership
SYS-CON Media (press release)
NCWIT's role in the Startup America Partnership will include helping high-tech startups capitalize on the increased innovation and business benefits of gender diversity, and by promoting the achievements of women entrepreneurs. ...

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VatorNews
Today's Entrepreneur: David Barrett
VatorNews
I attended his "mile-high party," celebrating the one-year anniversary of his startup. The affair, held at a penthouse he was squatting in, was a delight as wait staff served up homemade hors d'oeuvres and donated wine. David is a doer and a go-getter, ...

The New Early Adopter Trend: Shilling for Startups
GigaOm
This has happened at least twice when I have checked out a startup after meeting an entrepreneur and two or three times after I've spoken with a friend about a cool company and gone to check it out. I find it annoying, but it's a trend that has ...

TechJournal South
New Startup America Partnership Commitments from Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft ...
PYMNTS.com
In order to help increase the prevalence and success of high-growth enterprises creating quality jobs in the US, Palindrome will match individual advisors with entrepreneurs as mentors and ultimately as board members, paralleling its “deep engagement ...
Ernst & Young LLP Joins Startup America to Accelerate Entrepreneurial GrowthAmerican Banking News (press release)
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Microsoft Works With Startup America Partnership to Support EntrepreneursPR Newswire (press release)

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