Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference
Wharton Journal
After listening to so many successful entrepreneurs during the panels and keynote sessions, the Start-Up Fair reminded everyone in attendance that the next Milo.com is lurking at Wharton, whether it is in beta mode or was chosen to advance to the ...

Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
10 Big Mistakes you can avoid
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
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 ...

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Incubators help ventures fly
Cincinnati.com
Last year, more than 800 entrepreneurs submitted business plans for review to CincyTech, Coy said. “There are a lot of great ideas out there. The pipeline is strong.” While Cincinnati may not have the star power of high-profile, start-up markets such ...

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Marketing And The Bubble
The Business Insider
I totally agree with Rand that VCs and entrepreneurs learned the hard way in the last bubble that spending a ton of money on marketing didn't guarantee success. More likely it guaranteed failure. And I am certain that experience has caused me and my ...

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Want to back an entrepreneur? Best bet is to go for old
The National
Part of the reason for this, of course, is that many mature entrepreneurs witness failed ventures and apply what they have learnt when creating a new start-up later in life. These kinds of experiences can not be underestimated, as they help to build a ...

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Stanford University Entrepreneurship Week With Speakers and Campus Events
All Things Digital (blog)
The week-long, campus-wide event series is ultimately designed to encourage interaction between student entrepreneurs and potential investors, and to burnish Stanford's credentials as a hub of tech and business innovation. And while start-up ...

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VentureBeat
A small game studio scores big with Torchlight (video)
VentureBeat
So Runic's success so far is an inspiring example for would-be entrepreneurs who want to create a new company in the video game business. “I think the era of the five-year, $90 million project may be coming an end and mercifully so,” Schafer said. ...

New Albany blog will share business' success stories
Delaware News
"We're building on the momentum that is already there and providing an outlet for our success stories to be told," Chrysler said. The blog launched with a variety of stories, including a post spotlighting eProximiti, a startup business that alerts ...

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AddressTwo Accepting Entries for Bootstrap Battle 2011
PR-USA.net (press release)
... his strategy for building a successful startup without accepting round-A capital investment. “In the startup community, funding seems to be all the craze. But this competition will honor those entrepreneurs who have decided not to sell equity. ...

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Out of work, some invest time, savings in franchises
The Tennessean
Others are less visible, but they may offer modest startup costs and the ability to work from home in some cases. Among the possibilities are senior-care services, one of the fastest-growing franchise fields because of the aging of baby boomers and ...

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Tiger teams claw to top in business competition
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Their startup, called M-Profesa, is aimed at providing more effective preparation for Kenya's high school entrance exam by sending practice questions via text message. The team hopes its solution will improve educational opportunities, particularly in ...

Tech Wildcatters' start-up boot camp program connects Dallas-area startups to ...
Dallas Morning News
As part of that goal, Boyd's team is trying to define “success,” whether it is the number of jobs created or the funding secured by its entrepreneurs. Kauffman Fellow Aziz Gilani, a venture capitalist at Houston-based DFJ Mercury, is studying the ...

From Netflix to necessities — on demand
Boston Globe
Matching the scale and speed of Netflix's success is an entrepreneur's fantasy. But several companies with local ties are trying to build Netflix-style businesses by sending products through the mail that haven't often traveled that way before. ...

Six Key Principles to Set Your Startup Culture
Forbes (blog)
Values start and emanate from you, the founding entrepreneur. Your values are not what you proclaim on your mission statement (if you have one), they are made real and set the culture by what you live by and project on the front line in day-to-day ...

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Executive Q&A: Rick Terrien is dedicated to helping people start businesses
Madison.com
The lifelong entrepreneur and Middleton resident started two businesses that found success and he's trying to help others do the same. Terrien is executive director of the Iowa County Area Economic Development Corp., a nonprofit organization that ...

Small startups face a bureaucratic minefield
Montreal Gazette
Michael Vineberg says a startup business owner has infinite ideas but limited time, money and resources. Small-business startups face so many financial, legal and bureaucratic obstacles that, ...

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Forbes (blog)
Imitation With Innovation Reduces Risk in Startups
Forbes (blog)
Once you have experience in running a successful startup this way, you may decide that the disruptive technology of your dreams was a bad idea in the first place. It seems to me that in the startup world, imitation gets a bad rap. ...

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Creating a start-up within an existing business
New England Business Bulletin
A sports performance center's new online venture and its potential to develop into a revenue producing spin-off was the topic of discussion at the most recent Southern New England Entrepreneur's Forum which focused on intrapreneurship. ...

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The Startup Genome Project -- Dead on Arrival
BNET (blog)
And yet, researchers have still failed thus far to discover a definitive formula for entrepreneurial success. Odds are good that the Startup Genome Project won't be able to “crack the innovation code” either. In fact, inescapable structural ...

AllBusiness (blog)
Lessons from an Uber-Entrepreneur: Sean Parker Discusses Plaxo
AllBusiness (blog)
Sean later left Plaxo, (and it was acquired by Comcast) but Sean's vision for the company and his approach to startups is a great lesson for all startup entrepreneurs. DW: Can you describe Plaxo for me? What's the elevator pitch? ...