UK web entrepreneurs take trade mission to Silicon Valley
V3.co.uk
Eighteen of the UK's most successful technology start-up companies are jetting off to the States today as part of a government backed initiative designed to promote UK web entrepreneurialism and open up their businesses to an ...

Entrepreneur Sees Berkeley As Future High-Tech Hotspot
Daily Californian
Berkeley Daily Planet executive director Becky O'Malley presented a concern that successful startup proliferation in the city may raise property costs, consequently making rent unaffordable for small businesses. "Every time there's a ghost of the idea, ...

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Jolly's volley #30: So you want to be an entrepreneur…in India.
VC Circle (blog)
What became completely clear during that five hour thoroughly enjoyable interaction was how difficult it is to start and scale a startup, especially in India. That session was a trigger for me to put this piece together. I have stitched together actual ...

Estonian Development Fund Keen At Exploring Business Opportunities In India
ArcticStartup
Emerging markets might have the uncertainty of ensuring a successful startup or a business venture but they have all the room for growth over time. India, for example has become one of the fastest growing economies and in my opinion a hub to be of all ...

Accuracy key in domain names
StartupSmart
Schebesta says start-ups should register as many domain names as they can because they won't necessarily be successful in securing their favourite. Software start-up 365cups, which allows customers to place a coffee order on the internet or via their ...

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Waikato Times
New city venture for entrepreneur
Waikato Times
ASSURED: Dan Haslam is confident his soup and salad bar in Garden Place will be a success. As confidence in the economy falls to a two-year low, a Hamilton entrepreneur has embarked on a new venture to tempt the taste buds of inner-city workers. ...

Young Guns: Powering Down Your Energy Bill
Fox Business
I think a first-time entrepreneur builds a great company out of passion for solving a particular problem. I think a more generalized passion for entrepreneurship is something that is cultivated during your first startup, and I can certainly see how ...

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Massachusetts Launches 2011 MassChallenge Start Up Competition
Gov Monitor
With today's announcement, the 2011 MassChallenge Startup Competition and Accelerator is now officially accepting applications from any startup entrepreneur anywhere in the world. In year one, MassChallenge provided finalists with over 5000 hours of ...

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Performance Transformation Founder Publishes New Book - "The Transformational ...
PRLog.Org (press release)
"Having spent fifteen years in Corporate America and an additional ten years in the Investor-Driven Startup world I've had the privilege to experience many critical lessons for success," comments Terry Murray, the author of the book. ...

Israel, Massachusetts Launch 2011 MassChallenge Start Up Competition
Gov Monitor
With today's announcement, the 2011 MassChallenge Startup Competition and Accelerator is now officially accepting applications from any startup entrepreneur anywhere in the world. In year one, MassChallenge provided finalists with over 5000 hours of ...

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HBS Announces Winners of Student Start-Up
Harbus Online
Proposed by first-year MBA students Dan Rumennik, Jess Bloomgarden, and Andrew Rosenthal, and funded by the Rock Center, the MVP Fund is based on the premise of the Lean Startup methodology, which focuses on rapid prototyping, a process that brings ...

Is Quora The New Marimba?
San Francisco Chronicle
Because the story of Marimba kind of reminds of another startup, on that's red hot right now – Quora. Like Marimba's was, Quora's hype is white hot. A Quora investor recently told us the startup wouldn't sell right now for a price less than $1 billion. ...

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SBA Starts the Entrepreneur Mentor Corps
ActiveFilings.com
The United States Small Business Administration, in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation has recently begun the Entrepreneur Mentor Corps or the EMC. Their goal is to partner with 1000 business startup owners to help them get their business through ...

TechStars Network Will Expand Entrepreneur Mentorship
Small Business Computing
In January, he unveiled the White House's Startup America Partnership, a coordinated public/private effort to increase the prevalence and success of America's entrepreneurs. A key element of that effort is the TechStars Network, a membership ...

WBFO
West Side Bazaar helps refugees become entrepreneurs
WBFO
The West Side Bazaar opened last week with four part-time vendors as a small start-up in a temporary location on Grant Street. There is a manger who provides ongoing support to the vendors to help make them successful. Vendors also received advance ...

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Why Companies Fail--and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
Working Knowledge
It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a career, but only if the executives are ...

Investor: SEO is dead (to startups)
Econsultancy (blog)
There are plenty of low-hanging fruit. A startup can do itself a lot of favors by following the most basic of best practices, such as using valid markup. Additionally, it's worth remembering that a big part of SEO success is avoiding mistakes. ...

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Sisters networking for themselves
StartupSmart
And how will that make you feel? “[Celebrity chef] Heston Blumenthal once said he was more motivated by fear of failure than dreams of success and I can empathise.” “You see male entrepreneurs crash, burn, walk away and start-up again the next day. ...

The Startup Journey – Give Me a Lever (Pole) Long Enough
pluGGd.in
I am sure almost all of us have similar stories to share and there tends to be a generic pattern among entrepreneur's journeys. Idea of this post is to try and portray the path to success for entrepreneurs by knitting together the most common scenarios ...

The entrepreneurial spirit
Chicago Sun-Times
Currently, he's focused in on two businesses: Fan Page Factory, a resource of tips, tricks and tactics for building successful Facebook fan pages; and Lujure, which builds applications on Facebook's platform. He had several ideas for start-up ...

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