GrowLab set to accelerate Vancouver startups
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
GrowLab's Executive Director is Michael Tippett, a successful entrepreneur with nearly two decades of startup experience. GrowLab is a Vancouver-based start up accelerator. It provides early stage technology companies with seed funding, office space ...
Vancouver Gets a Different Kind of Grow LabGigaOm
GrowLab Accelerator for Startups with seed and stage A fundingGoMo News
Startup Boot Camp, GrowLab, LaunchedTechFinance
Vancouver Sun -National Post (registration) -Blackberry Cool
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City Tries to Ignite Innovation with Startup Contest
BusinessNewsDaily
Like many other struggling cities across the country, they've grubstaked their own incubator for early-stage entrepreneurs, and they're on the hunt for a startup they hope will pull off the next big thing in high technology. To make help make it happen ...

Accelerator's New Cancer Startup, 23andMe Hanging at the ISB, How to Make ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
-How can a biotech entrepreneur make money with no hope of going public, and fat chance of getting acquired by a Big Pharma company? This week's BioBeat focused on how Jim Posada of Seattle-based Resolve Therapeutics has structured his company so it ...

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Investors build entrepreneurial ecosystem
Vancouver Sun
At the end of the four-month program, the emerging entrepreneurs have a chance to take in another $150000 by making a successful pitch. The program is accepting applications "globally" and plans to select five startup companies for a program beginning ...

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The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Panelists: There is talent in West Michigan, but finding start-up money is ...
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
The panel brought together four local entrepreneurs having below-the-radar success with relatively new ventures. Panelists included: The wide-ranging discussion on funding, ideas, resources, challenges and navigating the local business ecosystem was ...

Interview: Why and how Google bought Sparkbuy
The Seattle Times (blog)
Networking really is worthwhile for startup entrepreneurs, or at least the ones who want to sell their companies to Google. Dan Shapiro said friendships and chance encounters helped him start comparison shopping site Sparkbuy last year and sell it to ...

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Forbes (blog)
Life Inc.: Getting paid to skip college
msnbc.com
Now, an entrepreneur has launched a fellowship that aims to test that theory by paying people not to go to school. The co-founder of online pocketbook PayPal, Peter Thiel, on Wednesday announced the winners of a fellowship that will pay nearly two ...
Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100000 Not to Attend CollegeChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
For three Canadian whiz kids, $100000 and a mandate: Change the worldGlobe and Mail
Peter Thiel's '20 Under 20′: Who we're putting our money onDigitaltrends.com
SYS-CON Media (press release)
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5 Ambitious Social Good Startups Created In a Single Weekend
Mashable
And Startup Weekend is a truly global initiative, with upcoming events in Mongolia, Hamburg, Toronto, San Francisco, Madrid, Boston, Denver and more. Some big-name, successful apps, such as Foodspotting, have come from Startup Weekend events in the ...

Morgenthaler Announces DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase
Sacramento Bee
Ten finalists will be selected and offered the chance to present in front of 200 venture capitalists, angel investors and entrepreneurs on September 22, 2011. Held at Microsoft's auditorium in Mountain View, the HIT Startup Showcase will include ...

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Morgenthaler Announces DC to VC: HIT Startup Showcase
PR Newswire (press release)
Ten finalists will be selected and offered the chance to present in front of 200 venture capitalists, angel investors and entrepreneurs on September 22, 2011. Held at Microsoft's auditorium in Mountain View, the HIT Startup Showcase will include ...

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SuperNova Diagnostics® Selected to Present at Launch: Silicon Valley 2011
PR Newswire (press release)
Founded in 1995 by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) is the largest and fastest growing nonprofit in Northern California dedicated exclusively to helping technology and life science ...
SuperNova Diagnostics(R) Selected to Present at Launch: Silicon Valley 2011Einnews Portugal

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Qwiki's Ghost Haunts NYC Startup Scene at TechCrunch Disrupt
Forbes (blog)
This week, Lerer Ventures, announced both that it had closed its second $25 million fund to invest in early-stage startups and a partnership with one of Silicon Valley's most successful investors, Ron Conway. Lerer Ventures and Conway's fund SV Angel ...

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How can I finance my startup?
Fin24
How can I get a startup loan for a new business? Fin24 often receives enquiries from would-be entrepreneurs seeking out financing for small business ventures. However, too often these enquiries assume that individuals can walk into a bank and simply ...

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Forbes (blog)
Introducing the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Four Defining Characteristics
Forbes (blog)
Taiwan's entrepreneurship ecosystem evolved in the 1990s in the context of a huge accrual of highly successful Taiwanese expatriates in the US. China's entrepreneurship ecosystem is evolving now in the context of diverse regional policies and a ...

Column: A guide to financing a small business
Wausau Daily Herald
One of the biggest hurdles a new entrepreneur will face is finding the financing for his or her business. There are many sources of startup financing available, even with the economy being slow. The business owner first must find their own credit score ...
A Fitting End to Small Business WeekThe White House (blog)
SBA unveils free app for biz owners, entrepreneursBizjournals.com
SBA Introduces New Mobile Application for Small Business Owners, EntrepreneursSYS-CON Media (press release)
Albuquerque Express -AOL Small Business -Small Business News from Gaebler.com
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Lendio Offers New Grads Business Funding Opportunities
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Only 5% of Americans say college is where students currently learn to become entrepreneurs. 73% of Americans say the best way to teach a student to become an entrepreneur is by them creating a business or interning in a start-up. ...

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AZ Disruptors Pitch Day for Web Startups Attracts Local Entrepreneurs, Investors
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The AZ Disruptors program was founded by Hamid Shojaee, the seasoned entrepreneur behind Axosoft and TransferBigFiles.com, two of Scottsdale's most successful web software businesses. For the next four months, the startup companies selected to join the ...

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AZ Disruptors Pitch Day for Web Startups Attracts Local Entrepreneurs, Investors
Benzinga
Entrepreneurs and investors come out in support of the local startup ecosystem at Scottsdale event. The AZ Disruptors incubator for Web software businesses launched with a bang at its Pitch Day last Friday. Dozens of successful entrepreneurs and ...

New York Times (blog)
Peter Thiel Announces Inaugural Class of 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows
Gamut News
Peter Thiel \ˈtēl\ is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. Today he is known as the mentor of the PayPal mafia of entrepreneurs, as well as for his warnings ...
Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100000 Not to Attend CollegeChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

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Sandbox Industries Unveils Healthcare Accelerator Program 'HealthBox'
Private Equity Hub (press release)
Sandbox Industries, a venture capital firm and leading incubator for startup companies, today unveiled Healthbox, one of the first business accelerators in the country to focus exclusively on the healthcare industry. Healthbox builds on the success of ...

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