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The Real History Of Twitter
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Ex-Googler Evan Williams had a startup called Odeo. It was going to be a podcasting platform. Evan asked his friend, another ex-Googler named Biz Stone, to join him. When Apple launched iTunes, and made Odeo's podcasting platform irrelevant, ...

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Startup Advice: Hurry Up and Launch the Damn Product!
BNET (blog)
Eisenmann teaches the concept of the “lean startup” developed by HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Eric Ries and entrepreneur Steve Blank. In this case lean does not mean a shoestring budget but rather avoiding wasting of resources, saving time, ...

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Got a Question for Successful Entrepreneurs?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
If you have questions you'd like to ask any of these entrepreneurs – on any topic, from where they got their start-up capital to their personal work habits – please enter them into the live chat here. We'll try to get them answered. ...

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Startup Advice You May Not Want — But Absolutely Need
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Starting a successful business is hard. And risky, too. Failure involves much more than the death of an entrepreneurial dream. But for many entrepreneurs the rewards outweigh the risks: Financial independence, autonomy, the opportunity to do what you ...

Northeast Indiana Entrepreneurs Celebrate
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
Purdue Research Foundation Senior Vice President Joe Hornett says "the continued success of the Startup Weekend represents the strength of Indiana's economy and the number of active entrepreneurs we have in our state."

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Today's entrepreneur: Richard Kang
VatorNews
Today's Entrepreneur is Richard Kang, founder and CEO of Wipit, a mobile payment startup in Los Angeles. Richard always knew he wanted to start a company, but didn't know it was going to be so soon. Last year the stars lined up: a gripping idea, ...

Global goal: a half-billion startups
CTV.ca
It was astounding to hear the keynote address delivered by Ms. Li Yandong – a senior member of the Communist Party of China Central Committee – focus on the importance of entrepreneurship education in universities and the need to support new start-up ...

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My Biggest Entrepreneurial Challenge? Balancing My Personal And Corporate Brands
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The Challenge: The biggest challenge as a young entrepreneur has been time management and balancing my personal and corporate brand. In your first year as a start up, you do not necessarily have the cash flow to bring on a full time staff and you are ...

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Even angels fear to tread
Bellingham Herald
Without the money, entrepreneurs like Joel Ackerman are having a tougher time building their businesses and creating jobs. Ackerman, a former UnitedHealth Group executive, needs $2 million to build his startup, River Systems, which is developing ...
'Angel' investors boost hundreds of greater Nashua companiesNashua Telegraph
More angels investistockAnalyst.com (press release)

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Startup Success workshop in Snohomish for new business
HeraldNet
This Startup Success workshop will help ground your thoughts, vision and ideas. After this workshop, you will have all you need to write a single-page business plan (and you will have completed most of it in the session). You will also learn how to ...

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Startup Success workshop in Snohomish for new business
HeraldNet
This Startup Success workshop will help ground your thoughts, vision and ideas. After this workshop, you will have all you need to write a single-page business plan (and you will have completed most of it in the session). You will also learn how to ...

Gainesville a hub of student start-ups
Tbo.com
The Startup Hour is held monthly at downtown venues and has been dubbed "Nerds Night Out" by at least one business leader. It is one of several events in recent years to bring together student and graduate entrepreneurs and inventors who bounce ideas ...

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Kiip's Brian Wong On Taking Risks As Young Entrepreneur
TechCrunch
After taking his mobile ads startup out of stealth on Monday, Kiip founder Brian Wong has a lot on his plate, mainly putting a recent $4.3 million in funding and a novel product and business model to good use. And Wong can't even drink legally yet! ...
The next Mark Zuckerberg? UBC grad wunderkind, 19, launches second startupVancouver Sun

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More angels invest
Nashua Telegraph
Many of the investors are successful entrepreneurs themselves. In Greater Nashua, angel investor groups have been responsible for getting hundreds of start-up companies – high-tech companies in particular – off the ground. One of the best-known is The ...

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For Flip Video Camera, Four Years From Hot Start-Up to Obsolete
New York Times
“There are a lot of young entrepreneurs who look at Flip as a huge success, and they should continue to,” said Jonathan Kaplan, a co-founder and former chief executive of the start-up that invented the Flip. “The demise of Flip has nothing to do with ...
Flip video camera gets the axeTODAYonline
The Flip's Flop: Three Simple Lessons from Cisco's BlunderGuruFocus.com
One of the greatest tech start-up stories does a 'Flip'Business Standard (blog)

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Entrepreneur Spotlight: eComegy founder connects clients with customers
DesMoinesRegister.com
May 11-13 For the latest information on startup events, check out Silicon Prairie News' events calendar at spne.ws/events. Once a month, Juice will feature articles from Silicon Prairie News, (SiliconPrairieNews.com) which interviews the region's ...

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Is That Person In The Mirror Standing Between You And Success?
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Once an innovation worthy of exploitation has been identified, an entrepreneur's success or failure will depend largely on how ready they are to take counsel and challenge their own assumptions and deeply held beliefs. ...

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Flickr Founder's Games Startup Raises $10 Million From Accel And Andreessen ...
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Social, casual games in the browser are now a huge, really hot market thanks to Zynga which makes $400 million a year in profits from Facebook games. And Stewart Butterfield is a successful serial entrepreneur who's had a vision for this game for a ...

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Beyond Basic Training
Business West
“It depends on the entrepreneurs' needs and whether they find mentoring useful. Some of them use it to get over the initial startup hump, and then find they don't need it anymore. Other people have one meeting and decide it's not for them, ...

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Startup success: Make passion pay off
CTV.ca
... immune to typical startup risks that wise founders have learned to respect and manage," he writes in his new book, 6 Secrets to Startup Success. Mr. Bradberry has more than two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, consultant and investor. ...

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