A Roundup of Summer Startup Competitions, from Healthcare IT to Dark Matter
Xconomy
If you're an entrepreneur and you want some (relatively) easy money or fame, it's time to get moving on your entry for one of the many startup-oriented competitions underway this summer. Here are just four that have hit my inbox this week. ...

<B>Jyoti Pande Lavakare:</B> Get started with gyaan
Business Standard
Apart from Startup Saturday, it also has an active online forum. Startup Saturday is among the rare, consistently “fixed” events entrepreneurs can access through the year that features talks, debates, demos, networking and learning, says Aditya Mishra, ...

GeekWire
Gist CEO TA McCann: 'To be an entrepreneur takes a tremendous amount of courage'
GeekWire
Gist founder TA McCann just completed a successful sale of his startup to RIM. So, why did the Seattle entrepreneur spend a chunk of his time at the University of Washington business plan competition's annual awards dinner talking about failure? ...

What any startup can learn from Starbucks
GeekWire
I am sure there a lot more things to get better at, but whatever it is… just get better. This is what I thought as I drove by the Starbucks headquarters today. Hope it helps. Nick Hughes is an entrepreneur who lives in Seattle. You can read his blog, ...

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Startup Open 2011 Kicks Off Search for Most Promising New Companies
GigaOm
15, 2011. Any entrepreneur worldwide who has had a “startup moment”– defined by the Kauffman Foundation as any action related to launching a new business — since the last GEW on Nov. 22, 2010 is eligible to apply for Startup Open 2011. ...
Ready for a 'startup moment'?St. Louis Business Journal (blog)

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Ready for a 'startup moment'?
St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
The foundation is searching for the 50 most promising startups for its business competition, "Startup Open." The contest is open to any entrepreneurs who have just started, or are about to start, a new venture and have a “startup moment” between Nov. ...

How to Cope When Your Startup Fails
NBC Chicago (blog)
If the owners really knew what they were doing wrong, they might have been able to fix the problem,” writes entrepreneur Jay Goltz in a NYT blog item this year. “Often, it's simply a matter of denial or of not knowing what you don't know. ...

News One
Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program Announced By Comcast
News One
Billed the “Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program,” the goal is to give training, mentoring, and other funding to five minority-led startup businesses. The program is now taking applications, and those that are accepted will be given their own ...

Three Keys to Maximizing Franchise Success
Entrepreneur
It may be tough to turn a startup-franchise business into big bucks, but it's not impossible. Here are the three keys to striking franchise gold. 1. Cultivate your interpersonal skills. Not everyone is cut out to be a franchisee. ...

TheStreet.com
AOL Founder Starts Startup for Startups
TheStreet.com
"One thing I was surprised at when I began this job was the startling lack of organized resources for entrepreneurs," he says. "The average startup was finding out about them in a random way. You need luck to succeed in business, but you shouldn't need ...

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The Start-up Scene in India
Penn Olson
Vijay Anand is an entrepreneurially-minded professional with more than 13 years of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur, an advisor, and a columnist at Entrepreneur magazine. ...

Questioning the SBA
AOL Small Business
We see startups also in our microloan operation, it is very geared to smaller businesses, underserved communities, folks who may see entrepreneurship as a way to build some economic viability and we do quite a bit successful startup activity in the ...

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Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast
Washington Post
But given that I believe the success of startups is almost entirely correlated with having extra-ordinary talent, the ability to source, select and inspire new staff to join is one of the greatest early tests of entrepreneurs. ...
Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire FastTechCrunch

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Kauffman Starts Competition to Find 50 Most Promising Startups
AOL Small Business
Kaufmann Foundation is accepting applicants for its second annual Startup Open competition at Global Entrepreneur Week. Last year's winner received networking sessions with Richard Branson on his private Necker Island. By Alicia Ciccone The Kauffman ...
Search for 50 Startups with High-Growth Potential Begins with Launch of 2011 ...Business Wire (press release)
Looking for 50 good startupsKansas City Star

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Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast
TechCrunch
But given that I believe the success of startups is almost entirely correlated with having extra-ordinary talent, the ability to source, select and inspire new staff to join is one of the greatest early tests of entrepreneurs. ...

Now Is Never Too Early For An Entrepreneur - Start Small, Start Now
The Business Insider
It also brings into question the degree to which they are suited for work at a startup. As noted in Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It, successful entrepreneurs do not wait for someone to shout, “Go!” They know there is no starting gun that will alert ...

Business Wire (press release)
Search for 50 Startups with High-Growth Potential Begins with Launch of 2011 ...
Business Wire (press release)
Winner Olivier Ceberio, founder of Resolute Marine Energy (RME) in Boston, Mass., recently returned from his trip, where he took part in multiple networking sessions with Branson and other successful entrepreneurs. Additional activities included a ...
Kauffman Starts Competition to Find 50 Most Promising StartupsAOL Small Business
Looking for 50 good startupsKansas City Star

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Pushing a Startup Revolution in Connecticut
Patch.com
Of course, transforming an idea into a thriving enterprise is a daunting exercise; Startup America wants to maximize the chance of success. While there is no single formula for success, Startup America has identified five critical points entrepreneurs ...

“Lean Startup” evangelist Eric Ries is just getting started
Reuters Blogs (blog)
A Yale grad who studied computer science, he began his career as an entrepreneur while still in school. (He now calls his short-lived startup, Catalyst Recruiting, “a footnote to a footnote.”) But even then he found himself “considered not only an ...

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Tech Wildcatters Welcomes Sponsor Silicon Valley Bank
PR Newswire (press release)
DALLAS, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Wildcatters, a mentor-driven accelerator program for startup technology entrepreneurs, added Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) as a sponsor to help selected start-up companies build their business and obtain seed or ...
Tech Wildcatters Welcomes Sponsor Silicon Valley BankSacramento Bee

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