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Energy Innovator Challenge Not A TV Game Show
EarthTechling
The “America's Next Top Energy Innovator” challenge is the brain-child of the Department Of Energy (DOE) and, according to US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and the DOE, is designed to give start-up companies a crack at building successful businesses ...
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Penn Olson
Top Entrepreneurs of the Last Century
Penn Olson
There are also several successful Asian entrepreneurs featured on Businessweek and Inc.. They are certainly worth a look too. One of the up and coming entrepreneurs, Leon Ho, founder of Stepcase who recently had his startup covered on Penn Olson was ...

Women of Color in Tech: How Can We Encourage Them?
TechCrunch
Kimberly believes that the reason there aren't more black women in the tech world is that it doesn't offer them an equitable path to success—because of which most educated African Americans get into law or medicine. Her advice to entrepreneurs: go to ...

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Valley's own Drund project lets users organize their online life
Youngstown Vindicator
In late February, Drund premiered at the inaugural LAUNCH Conference in San Francisco alongside 100 other tech startups and entrepreneurs. Drund also will take the spotlight at TechCrunch, a conference and startup competition on May 24-26. ...

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MANY LOCALS LOOKING FOR A FRESH STARTUP
The Register-Guard
In general, 20 percent of the students in each of his incoming classes will be successful and generate wealth for themselves; 60 percent will survive, but in the end they may have been better off pursuing some other option; and 20 percent don't have a ...

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Edmonton Champions Project connects techies with entrepreneurs
Edmonton Sun
Ken Bautista, co-chair of Startup Edmonton, said his non-profit and entrepreneur-led group will be kick starting a new project that will connect tech-minded mentors with newbie professionals in Edmonton's upstart creative business community. ...

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How Phaneesh Murthey, Nitish Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Sourav Ganguly became ...
Economic Times
For every entrepreneur who bounces back, there are many who either burned out or faded away. Failure cannot always be romanticised and transformed into heroic tales of turnarounds. But it does serve a purpose, of telling budding start-up artistes that ...

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Small business success secrets
Anchorage Press
No matter how different your business is from theirs, or from any other successful startup, some business advice is universally beneficial for entrepreneurs: * Before opening up shop, be sure the community you're locating in has demand for your product ...

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Entrepreneur Corner: Succession planning and napkin entrepreneurs
VentureBeat
Today, though, it's just as easy – and a lot more effective – to build a Web prototype, says serial entrepreneur Steve Blank. 3 strategies for achieving web start-up success – Software companies used to be able to rely on shelfware to reap their ...

Small business success secrets
Big Bear Grizzly
No matter how different your business is from theirs, or from any other successful startup, some business advice is universally beneficial for entrepreneurs: * Before opening up shop, be sure the community you're locating in has demand for your product ...

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True Colors: Bathing Mobile In An Entirely New Light
TechCrunch
Even with the latest update pushed out last night to address some of the initial product's shortcomings, Color remains the most polarizing Silicon Valley startup since Quora's rise and, appropriately enough, folks at Color have been answering questions ...

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Business Sale Report supports Startup Britain
PR-USA.net (press release)
Staff from the Business Sale Report joined some of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs last week to take part in the launch of StartUp Britain, a private sector campaign that has been put together in response to the Government's call for the ...

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The Rock Health Fund is ready to launch
San Jose Mercury News
The pitch: Build something useful, and your startup will get mentoring from folks at Accel Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Twitter, Harvard Business School and more. Volunteer mentors already signed on for the project range ...

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Relieving the Pain of Healthcare Licensing, LicensePro and its President ...
PR Newswire (press release)
You have a simple startup plan for a successful healthcare business model, but the complex Government-issued licenses and certification process means you can't get it up and running. Licensed healthcare attorney and nationwide business developer Arthur ...

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Small business success secrets
Bonners Ferry Herald
No matter how different your business is from theirs, or from any other successful startup, some business advice is universally beneficial for entrepreneurs: * Before opening up shop, be sure the community you're locating in has demand for your product ...

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Forbes (blog)
5 Things You Need To Succeed As An Entrepreneur
Forbes (blog)
As a start-up founder, you will devote a massive amount of time, energy, and resources to your business. So what will keep you going through sleepless nights or paycheck-free months? A full-blown obsession with your business and its success. ...

GreenBiz.com
DOE Launches America's Next Top Energy Innovator
EC&M
This initiative aims to double the number of startup companies coming out of the national laboratories. On Monday, May 2, DOE will kick off the challenge by posting a streamlined template option agreement online for entrepreneurs to submit to ...
Chu gives license to steal government patentsSmart Grid News

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Obama administration officials coming to Twin Cities to promote business ...
MinnPost.com
... particularly by streamlining regulation and removing barriers for growth — as a way to improve the nation's economy. The goal of the Startup America plan is to "dramatically increase the prevalence and success of America's entrepreneurs."

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BNET (blog)
Caterina Fake on Stepping into the Unknown
BNET (blog)
At 41, the no-nonsense entrepreneur describes herself as always “self-directed, self-motivated and self-employed.” While she chose to work for Yahoo after the search giant acquired Flickr in 2005, it wasn't long before she returned to startup mode. ...

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Waiting for a cheque from Ciena
Ottawa Citizen
He was on campus Tuesday morning to give a speech aimed at student entrepreneurs about ways to grow a successful start-up business. Not so many years ago, Charles Chi says he was an average student at Carleton University, pressured into a ...

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