Valley Holds a Lesson in Risk Appetite: Karl Mehta
Economic Times
Bangalore: For Karl Mehta , one of the most successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs of Indian origin, starting something new always came with huge risks, but that helped him build and later sell companies like PlaySpan and MobileAria. ...

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The top 10 start-up billionaires
StartupSmart
Want to become a multi-billionaire entrepreneur before your temples start greying? The way to do it in recent years, going by Forbes' list, is to start a social networking platform. Tanaka, formerly of Sony, started Gree, Japan's largest social ...

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Entrepreneur to advise on startup success tips
Camarillo Acorn
Entrepreneurs, small-business owners and people considering starting a business are invited to the Entrepreneur Roundtable on Sat., March 19 in Overton Hall, California Lutheran University, 60 W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks. ...

Irish Times
Start-up firms on parade at bootcamp
Irish Times
Kerry entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly, who sold his own company StockByte to media giant Getty for $125 million, stepped in to give a last-minute talk in which he explained some of the start-up challenges of setting up his new online design company ...

PR Web (press release)
NextSpace to Welcome "Nifty" Students Participating in Startup America
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Also attending will be NextSpace members that have already expressed interest in supporting and encouraging NFTE's group of budding entrepreneurs. NextSpace's first collaboration with NFTE took place in December 2010 when the coworking startup selected ...
NextSpace to Welcome “Nifty” Students Participating in Startup AmericaPR Web (press release)

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Stressed? You need to visit a shrink
Stuff.co.nz
If, in the twitchy run-up to tax time your start-up is driving you mad, you might want to visit psychologist Peter Shallard's site. The self-styled "shrink" for entrepreneurs, who says his age is irrelevant to his work, started out as a psychotherapist ...

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Startup-struck Weinschenck brings diverse experience to SmartyPig
Silicon Prairie News
"Having lived in [Silicon] Valley for 14 years, Iowa has all of the ingredients to foster successful entrepreneurship," Weinschenk said. In fact, he stipulates that SmartyPig would not have sprung from such a traditional startup capitol. ...

NextSpace to Welcome “Nifty” Students Participating in Startup America
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Also attending will be NextSpace members that have already expressed interest in supporting and encouraging NFTE's group of budding entrepreneurs. NextSpace's first collaboration with NFTE took place in December 2010 when the coworking startup selected ...

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All aboard the SXSW startup bus!
TG Daily
An entrepreneur straight from the land down under, Elias Bizannes moved to California to pursue success in the heartland of startups: Silicon Valley. What originally started as a fun way to travel with his friends to SXSW eventually turned into a ...

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Failure is Great for the Entrepreneur's Resume
BNET (blog)
A failed business also yields networking opportunities with VCs and relationships with other entrepreneurs whose companies are succeeding. That's why, says Ghosh, boards of successful companies often seek out the founders and CEOs of failed companies ...

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The Daily Start-Up: Psst, Check Out GrubHub
Wall Street Journal (blog)
It's a great time to be an entrepreneur — well, at least an Internet founder with a good idea. As WSJ details, the dynamics of the Web boom is shifting the power balance from investors to entrepreneurs. Walt Mossberg calls the iPad 2 “evolutionary ...

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The Business Insider
Entrepreneurs: Manage Yourself, Then Your Startup
The Business Insider
These points represent real problems for entrepreneurs trying to manage a startup: You often feel overwhelmed and out of control. There is always more to do than time to do it. Usually the stress people feel does not really come from having too much to ...

Start up: digital DIY makes for good business
Independent
Our focus is on useful knowledge transfer from the business school to the entrepreneur, rather than supplying capital with the ultimate aim of realising a successful investment.” Although business school incubators have become highly fashionable in ...

Globe and Mail
Why entrepreneurs and corporate chiefs make bad bedfellows
Globe and Mail
Sarasvathy compared 45 super-entrepreneurs (all had at least 15 years' experience, had started at least four companies and had taken one public) with a group of equally successful big-company chief executive officers. One of her key findings was the ...

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Don't romanticize owning your own business; it requires work
Reno Gazette Journal
Mark Zuckerberg may be the highly successful entrepreneur who created Facebook, but Carol Roth sighs when she hears his name. "Everyone wants to jump on that bandwagon," she said, referring Zuckerberg's phenomenal startup success. ...

Silicon Prairie News
Startup Weekend Des Moines: Reflections of a past participant
Silicon Prairie News
Startup Weekend, the global organization, has grown in that time, too. That validation can be visualized by their grant funding from the Kauffman Foundation and their recent write-up in Entrepreneur magazine, but I notice it much more in how they ...

Ex-Googlers penetrating Silicon Valley startup hierarchy
San Jose Mercury News
"Going to Google, I really wanted to learn the skills that would make me a successful entrepreneur on my own." WeatherBill, whose chief technical officer, Siraj Khaliq, also came from Google, aims to build a highly profitable business that will also ...

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Startup America Travels to South by Southwest
The White House (blog)
Over 150 entrepreneurs, investors, and others challenged Administration officials on ideas like extending student loan deferments for startups and a new immigration category called “startup visa”.

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On SXSWi-Bound Startup Bus, Tech Entrepreneurs Race to Hatch New Businesses
PC Magazine
Six busloads of 150 tech entrepreneurs boarded the Startup Bus in a 48-hour race to throw together a viable business as they travel to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin, Texas. But the goal of the Startup Bus is not just ...
Startup Bus: An Entrepreneurial Rite of Passage En Route to SXSWHuffington Post (blog)

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Ex-Googlers penetrating Silicon Valley startup hierarchy
San Jose Mercury News
"Going to Google, I really wanted to learn the skills that would make me a successful entrepreneur on my own." WeatherBill, whose chief technical officer, Siraj Khaliq, also came from Google, aims to build a highly profitable business that will also ...

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