AllBusiness (blog)
Top 10 Small Business Calculators Every Entrepreneur Should Have In His Tool Chest
AllBusiness (blog)
Starting Costs Calculator – Estimate your start up costs using this simple calculator and avoid missing some of the most common expenses that get missed. Cash Flow Calculator – This calculator shows you how business-t0-business sales, ...

Globe and Mail
Snared by the 'passion trap'
Globe and Mail
Because early ideas are so frequently off the mark, surviving and thriving as an entrepreneur means treating the startup journey as an exercise in uncertainty. No matter how thoroughly you research your target market, or how rigorously you plan your ...

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The ruthless Rose
Fortune
Last week, when Techcrunch's Sarah Lacy first reported the details of Rose's next startup, Milk Inc., he told her that at Milk, "if something isn't working after four months, we'll just shoot it in the head and start again." A week later, on the phone ...

Enterprise Qatar sheds light on growth of businesses
Zawya
Enterprise Qatar is tasked with providing aspiring entrepreneurs and current small & medium businesses with access to funding for start-up and growth, business support services such as incubation facilities, legal, financial and HR advisory services, ...

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Tech industry hopes success isn't Bubble 2.0
Times of India
Last year, Kevin Systrom, 27, co-founded a company that follows the typical lean San Francisco startup model, though with atypical success. The mobile photo sharing service Instagram launched in October. Since then, he says the service has grown to ...

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Starting Up: A Generation of Zuckerberg Wannabees
BusinessWeek
It's easier for teens to become Web entrepreneurs these days because writing software is cheaper and simpler, said Daniel Gross, the 19-year-old founder of San Francisco-based Internet-search startup Greplin Inc. "The tools require less expert ...

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MiamiHerald.com
Cash isn't the only kind of valuable investment
MiamiHerald.com
If you share your vision with a successful entrepreneur, he may think of many ways to support your endeavor without risking his brand. This could be anything, maybe offering a start-up an unused office, sharing a mailing list, ...

Garage48 African Journey will start in Lagos!
Information Nigeria
Garage is a non-profit organization started by 6 Estonian IT entrepreneurs. All our founders are active IT and mobile entrepreneurs, who have great experience on how to launch new successful startup. Two of our founders helped to build up the world ...

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Coloft: a shared work space in Santa Monica and a real-life social network [Video]
Los Angeles Times
And, on any given weekday, a walk into Coloft offers up a taste of the LA-area's start-up scene with entrepreneurs working at tables next to one another, sometimes offering each other advice and occasionally even collaborating on projects. ...

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Cash Is King: 8 Tips For Optimizing Your Startup Financing Strategy
The Business Insider
Company success is far more important than Dilution: A common mistake that entrepreneurs make is to focus too heavily on avoiding dilution by raising less money. Another common problem is failure to build in enough cushion for the unexpected. ...

The 6 Reasons Every Startup Community Is The Same
The Business Insider
Micah says that he hears it in every startup community - as soon as someone has an appearance of success, people try to shoot them down. He says it stems out of jealousy - entrepreneurs or community members who haven't experienced your success simply ...

How entrepreneurs can manage own time
Livemint
I often spend some time talking about my experiences, hoping to share lessons that will help my guests, many of whom find themselves managing that transition from scrappy start-up to established company. The advice that entrepreneurs seem to find most ...

Forbes (blog)
Incubation, Mavericks and Legion Enterprises
Forbes (blog)
As a result, he founded Legion Enterprises LLC – a startup incubator and fund specifically aimed at creating things for men aged 16-24, what Sepso refers to as digital mavericks. “When we find a company or a smart entrepreneur with an idea, ...

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BBC News
Start-up Stories: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
BBC News
"This is why I call myself an accidental entrepreneur - because it was an accidental encounter with another entrepreneur… who wanted to set up shop in India and… asked me whether I would be able to partner this venture," she says. ...

Christian Science Monitor
Entrepreneurs, beware of 'Quixote Syndrome'
Christian Science Monitor
Rather than look for the trends and evidence that their passion will translate into a successful business, they view the start-up as a virtuous mission to change the world. They plan an attack of all of the wrongs in society that have created an ...

Teaching a 'Lean Startup' Strategy
Working Knowledge
The course focuses on the "lean startup" methodology, created by HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Eric Ries and serial entrepreneur and Stanford/UC Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank. The "lean" in lean startup has its roots in the Toyota Production System ...

The Easiest Way to Succeed as an Entrepreneur
Forbes (blog)
Many startups fail. But I've had a few successes as well. Successes in a startup makes you feel immortal. I was going to make this post: “the 12 rules to being a good entrepreneur” and I outlined the 12 rules that have consistently worked for me. ...

Enterprise Qatar keen to inspire Entrepreneurs and SME Owners at Qatar Career ...
Zawya
Enterprise Qatar is tasked with providing aspiring entrepreneurs and current small & medium businesses with access to funding for start-up and growth, business support services such as incubation facilities, legal, financial and HR advisory services, ...

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Affiliates Corner at SMU – 20 Apr
SGentrepreneurs (press release)
This next Affiliates' Corner will have Mr Eric Tan, from SPRING Start-up Enterprise Development Scheme (SPRING SEEDS) share his experience in seed funding and nurturing innovative start-ups into successful ventures. Dr Miles Gilman, MD, A2 BioScience ...

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Start-up support programme is launched
Sunday Business Post
The successful companies will also have the opportunity to build venture capital relationships with BKPartners and Garage Technology Ventures. ''Our team believe in a 'sleeves-up' mentality and will tackle all problems encountered in a start-up," said ...