San Francisco hopes tech success isn't Bubble 2.0
San Jose Mercury News
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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Seed money for social services
Edmonton Journal
Thompson is here to share his business acumen, his insights into what angel investors look for in a startup, and to help social entrepreneurs hone their pitches for the big battle to come on Sunday afternoon. That's when a select few will compete -in a ...

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48-hour event to birth startup
Chattanooga Times Free Press
In the second-floor gym of the old Industrial YMCA, 20 entrepreneurs turned the basketball court into an arena of new business ideas Friday night. By Sunday night, one of the competitors in the “48-hour launch” will earn $5000 to help ...

State investment firm spreads dough afar
Chattanooga Times Free Press
During a meeting in Chattanooga this week of the Tennessee Technology Development Corp., the new commissioner of Economic and Community Development for Tennessee — Bill Hagerty — said his office wants to promote new technology startup businesses, ...

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Start Up Checklist 1.0 for iOS - New Biz and Government Selling Guide
prMac (press release)
"Following the success of our Government contracting company, we created the Start Up Checklist to help other entrepreneurs break into the government market space," said Rob Hegedus, President and CEO of Entrepreneur Outfitters. ...

Ten Steps to Build Real Startup Team Engagement
Forbes (blog)
An entrepreneur has to engage with team members, partners, investors, vendors, and customers. In my experience, the joy of positive engagement is sometimes the only pay you get in an early startup. Amazingly, many successful startups are built on this ...

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Pastore's dedication to women entrepreneurs leads to Washington
Danbury News Times
"Fran Pastore is a credible and knowledgeable leadership voice for women entrepreneurs and small business owners. She brings a valued perspective on the development and growth issues they face from start-up to success to significance. ...

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The Guardian
Graduate careers: The dangers of becoming an entrepreneur
The Guardian
"I wasn't realistic enough about the startup costs and I tried expanding too soon," he says. Going solo is increasingly attractive to graduates as competition for decent jobs intensifies. Britain, says David Cameron, is entering the age of the ...

Careers on the side
Chicago Tribune
He categorizes the side-gig entrepreneur differently, calling it a "fractional entrepreneurship" model. "These are often people who are highly successful in their own right, with normal jobs who, on the side, are entrepreneurs," says Kedrosky, ...

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New York Times (blog)
Bits: TechStars Nurtures Start-Ups With Mentors
New York Times (blog)
The start-ups presenting at the event have all been involved in a 13-week program hosted by TechStars, a technology start-up incubator that pulls in successful technologists to help mentor new companies. Twice a year, TechStars, which originally began ...

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Larry Page Just Took A Page From Jeff Bezos With His Re-Org (GOOG, AMZN)
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a smart move: Page's big goal is to return Google to its startup roots, and this is like organizing the company as many startups within a startup. It's how Apple is run, for example. But there's another big goal to the re-org, which owes more to ...

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SecondAct
And on the Side, I'm an Entrepreneur
SecondAct
These platforms, which can create a sort of virtual word-of-mouth, also double as advertising, helping to decrease your startup costs. Let yourself dream. We can't all become the next Facebook or Groupon, but let those success stories motivate you. ...

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Five Techniques To Rebound from Startup Failure
The Business Insider
If your first startup fails, you are about average. Most entrepreneurs fail on at least one attempt. Investors agree that an entrepreneur who has never failed probably hasn't pushed the limits. What investors look for is not that you never fail, ...

Get Your Ticket Now for Michigan 2031 on April 14 and Get a Free Copy of Josh ...
Xconomy
Here at Xconomy, we know something about the great investor-entrepreneur relationships that are often behind the best companies: not only are we a startup ourselves, we write about the venture capital and startup scene every day—often chronicling the ...

TechSparks, India's biggest product tech startup event, joins hands with ...
PRLog.Org (press release)
PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 08, 2011 – After a wildly successful run in 2010, TechSparks, the product tech startup showcase event conducted by online portal YourStory, is back again this year, in a much bigger format. TechSparks is a multi-city series ...

Start-up board meetings vs. bored meetings
Fortune (blog)
Yet a well-functioning, well-managed board of directors is critical to a start-up's success. One of the best books on the topic is the somewhat obscure Board Room Excellence by a wise old start-up lawyer I worked with many years ago, Paul Brountas. ...

Young Entrepreneurs Put College on Hold
Harvard Crimson
“Basically a lot of Harvard students think that the key to success is not making any mistakes. The startup mentality is making as many mistakes as quickly as you can until you find the right answer,” Novendstern explains. For Brockman, dropping out ...

Cash is King: 8 tips for Optimizing your Startup Financing Strategy
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
His work as a value added investor is best known for helping JBoss take its Open Source business to a successful exit with its sale to Red Hat, and for helping AppIQ, Tabblo and Diligent Technologies, which have all had successful exits, ...

Experts unfold growth strategies for business start-ups
Vanguard
... School of Entrepreneurship disclosed that anyone who wants to start up a business must be able to analyse and estimate the cost of going into the business in order to be a successful entrepreneur in life The industrialists — Mr. Kehinde Abiola, ...

Mass High Tech
MIT's Langer, Polaris' McGuire have startup formula for success
Mass High Tech
In a partnership spanning 18 years and almost as many startup companies, Robert Langer, serial entrepreneur and MIT institute professor, and Terry McGuire, general partner at Polaris Venture Partners in ...