Startup Weekend teaches entrepenuers perseverance through hands-on experience
Iowa State Daily
He knew that it is difficult to work individually, that it cannot all be done at once, but there are other benefits to Startup Weekend "My number-one goal is to network," Reineke said. "There will be several successful entrepreneurs there, ...

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Eight Key Problems Every Startup Should Anticipate
The Business Insider
If you are a true entrepreneur, these should scare you, but they shouldn't immobilize you. As I asserted earlier, virtually every new startup experiences these problems. What separates the successful ones from the failures is how effectively they ...

“SeedStart Media 2011” Launches Summer Startup Program for Digital Media ...
RedOrbit
Established in 2008 as a partnership between serial entrepreneur Gil Beyda (Real Media and Tacoda) and Comcast Interactive Capital, Genacast's commitment to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies is already experiencing success with ...

Sunday Video: The Foodspotting Pitch at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend
Omaha World-Herald
The pitch is done primarily by Alexa Andrzejewski who spoke on the entrepreneur panel at last year's Big Omaha. Foodspotting is arguable one of the most successful companies to come out the Startup Weekend model and was named by Time Magazine as one of ...

Entrepreneur Corner: Avoiding costly customers and the valuation debate
VentureBeat
Strategy means nothing without implementation – While so much of the focus in the startup world is on formulating a successful strategy, Mark Forchette, CEO of OptiMedica notes it's all useless if you don't have a strong tactical implementation of that ...

Innovation Investment Journal
No potential startup founder left behind
Innovation Investment Journal
Once fully baked, the recipe produces a massively raised likelihood (but no guarantee) of startup success, plus massively raised likelihood of credible foundational capability (ability to found or accelerate future successful startups at will): so what ...

Work Like It's 1999: High-Tech Incubators
TIME
Technology incubators, which invest in and nurture new tech businesses, proliferated during the last dotcom boom but then got a bad reputation in the bust, when firms like CMGI and eCompanies lost billions of dollars on countless start-up failures ...

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Britain's new entrepreneurs: young guns go for it
The Guardian
After graduating, she worked for two web start-up companies specialising in property searches – "If I worked hard on something and it didn't get used, I'd be furious. And I got really sick of working with estate agents." Instead, she moved back in with ...

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The age of the self-starter
The Guardian
But, for Ella, this holds little appeal. She wants to be an entrepreneur. "I definitely want to start up my own business," she says, nodding her head vigorously. "I'd like to do something in design, related to what my father already does. ...

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 international market. ...

Angel Network looks for launch funds
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The network, hosted by the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, aims to help build an ecosystem that encourages successful entrepreneurs to contribute back to the start-up community. Entrepreneurs who raise money through the network will be asked later ...

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Vanguard
Changing people from employees to entrepreneur giants is my goal – Bola Adeboye
Vanguard
What an individual needs is an idea to start up a business. Most successful business all over the world started with little or no capital. Principally, we take aspiring entrepreneurs merely because the interest has to be there in the first place. ...

SeedStart Media 2011 Taking Entrepreneur Applications
Citybizlist (press release)
Established in 2008 as a partnership between serial entrepreneur Gil Beyda (Real Media and Tacoda) and Comcast Interactive Capital, Genacast's commitment to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build great companies is already experiencing success with ...

Google Cranks Up M&A Machine
Wall Street Journal
More recently, Google paid $25 million for a small team of entrepreneurs at start-up DocVerse, which had built a tool that let people edit Microsoft Office files online. "We've been fortunate to have autonomy," said DocVerse co-founder Shan Sinha, ...

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Up to $25000 Offered to Winners in Utah Start-Up Competition
PR-USA.net (press release)
James Borzilleri, founder of Idea Partnership of Utah, is a successful entrepreneur who has spent the past 15 years working on a variety of online projects that have been used by millions of consumers and businesses. “Idea Partnership gives me the ...

How motorcycle instincts can help your startup
Fortune
... to ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. The two are similar in lots of ways -- fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent -- but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up. ...

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Motorcycle instincts and start-ups
Fortune (blog)
... to ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. The two are similar in lots of ways -- fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent -- but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up. ...
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Motorcycle Instincts And Start-Ups
The Business Insider
... ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. I think the two are similar in lots of ways…fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent…but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up ...

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Motorcycle instincts and start-ups
The Business Insider
... ride a motorcycle and I used to be an entrepreneur. I think the two are similar in lots of ways…fast, fun, scary, sexy, independent…but the biggest similarity to me is the instincts required to be safe on a bike and to be successful in a start-up ...

Where are the start-up success stories?
Toronto Star
Successful business leaders and entrepreneurs like former Dragon Brett Wilson are voicing the necessity of nurturing the next generation of start-up founders. Great start-ups are being formed to create new markets, disrupt established industries and ...