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6 tips for startup success
Memeburn
Choose your partners very wisely; better to have a smaller piece of a bigger, stronger, more successful pie. According to Stokes, a successful startup requires energy and passion so make sure you're having fun. “For me work is more fun than fun. ...

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Gamasutra
GDC 2011: Ngmoco's Young Tells Game Entrepreneurs “Don't Be A Pussy”
Gamasutra
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur in games then “don't be a pussy.” So says Neil Young, CEO and founder of Ngmoco, quoting advise given to him prior to founding the mobile games company. Young, speaking at the Game Developer's ...

Medill Reports: Chicago
The not-so-quiet startup revolution: Chicago strives for Silicon Valley success
Medill Reports: Chicago
Although Groupon Inc.'s startling success has drawn sudden attention to Chicago as a technology hub, leading entrepreneurs here believe Groupon's rise is the result of more than a decade of transformation in the city's startup scene. ...
Silicon Valley: A big bright heat lamp for startup incubationOttawa Business Journal
Silicon Valley of Startup Entrepreneurs Releases June Date for the Valley's ...Sacramento Bee

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What's the point of 'Boston vs. Silicon Valley'?
Boston Globe
People believe in the lean start-up methodology, and they don't get stuck trying to make a business plan spreadsheet come to life. He has had the chance to meet both Craig Newmark of Craiglist and Mark Zuckerberg. In person! I've lived in the Bay Area, ...

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Kairos Society Student Entrepreneurs Take Over NYSE Trading Floor
Huffington Post
Yet, unlike Rockefeller and most modern billionaire do-gooders, the Kairos fellows -- and the new wave of young social entrepreneurs -- want to address humanity's greatest challenges from the get-go. Rather than waiting until they're successful enough ...

Obama Spreads Innovation Agenda To Middle America
Huffington Post (blog)
Although she had resources regionally, she hoped to find assistance from successful entrepreneurs from other parts of the country, like Silicon Valley. And whether the discussion among entrepreneurs is around connecting to consumers, mentoring or ...

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Ottawa Business Journal
Silicon Valley: A big bright heat lamp for startup incubation
Ottawa Business Journal
The story of Silicon Valley's evolution, which is obviously far beyond the confines of this series, continues to support the misconception that the US is somehow better at producing successful entrepreneurs and multinational technology enterprises than ...

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Collection Development | Part-Time Businesses, March 1, 2011
Library Journal
A good guideline provided by a recent LJ collection development feature is five years (see Susan Awe's “Start-Up Success,” LJ 5/1/10). Entrepreneurs value staying ahead of the curve and will demand the latest titles and editions. ...

Entrepreneurs powering Cleveland makeover
Reuters
Last week President Obama chose the city to launch his Startup America tour aimed at fostering entrepreneurship across the country. "We have an incredible infrastructure for making things," said Steve Millard, president of the Council of Smaller ...

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Buckinghamshire Advertiser
Young entrepreneurs start up own businesses after attending a course
Buckinghamshire Advertiser
THREE young people from Chesham have decided to start up their own businesses after attending a course in the town last week. The 12 Steps to Success course designed by 21-year-old Carly Ward, who is managing director and founder of Young Entrepreneur ...

Fred Wilson comes to Harvard Business School
The Business Insider
Early on in a start-up, entrepreneurs should be hunch-driven more than data-driven. If you are only data-driven, the risk is that you will move too slowly. It's more important to have a hypothesis about what might work and what might not work and then ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Start-Up 100: Let's talk about exits
Telegraph.co.uk
For the entrepreneur, planning an exit is not as simple as putting a slide in your investor presentation which says something like: 'Exit plan – Sell to a big company for a high price', but, believe me, I still see this kind of thing all the time. ...

App entrepreneur hopes to buck trend
Atlanta Journal Constitution
“The success rate is probably in the single digits,” said Wayt King, an angel investor and mentor to local startup companies. He has met with Maddox and thinks the company “has a chance.” Startups can be plagued by any of many potentially fatal flaws, ...

Graduates mix their talents into a cocktail for success
WalesOnline
TWO young entrepreneurs are hoping to toast business success with a new range of ready-prepared cocktails. Helen McAvoy, 23 and Naomi Kibble, 22, have launched start-up company KiiBs cocktails, and are planning to get ...

NC teen makes rain barrels his latest business
Myrtle Beach Sun News
He's president of his own start-up company and - technically - he is his mom's boss. His current enterprise, The Rain Barrel Co., is the Millbrook High School sophomore's third successful business venture, backed up by his family and run between honors ...

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Silicon Valley of Startup Entrepreneurs Releases June Date for the Valley's ...
American Banking News (press release)
... 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 entrepreneurs start and grow successful businesses. ...
Silicon Valley of Startup Entrepreneurs Releases June Date for the Valley's ...PR Newswire (press release)

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Now is a Great Time for Young Entrepreneurs
NuWire Investor
Now more than ever, more technologies and resources are available for young entrepreneurs to get started. See the following article from The Street for more on this. It doesn't take a home-run idea to become a successful entrepreneur, even if you are ...

Ten big business mistakes you can avoid
Stuff.co.nz
Don't fall for hype about entrepreneurs being risk takers; the best entrepreneurs are risk controllers. Having a strong Plan B helps control risk. Every start-up entrepreneur should have a clear "pull the plug" metric, such as revenue targets or ...
Upstart Business Consulting Group Launches New Website Featuring E-Book ...PR Web (press release)

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All Things Digital
Andreessen Horowitz Makes It a Foursome–Adds IronPort's Scott Weiss as ...
All Things Digital
In venture capital, this means picking the best entrepreneurs and the best markets. An excellent proxy for those capabilities is the ability to identify and build massively successful products, because the best teams going after the biggest markets ...

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Harvard Business School Announces Winners of Student Start-Up Competition ...
AScribe (press release)
This methodology has been advanced and popularized by Eric Ries, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS this academic year advising students and collaborating with faculty members on research and course development. Eighty-eight teams, each with at least ...

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