Entrepreneurial Excellence lays foundation for success
Tallahassee.com
The program's first class was a huge success, and applications are now being accepted for the next round in August. The EEP is a tuition-based course designed to arm startup businesses, as well as entrepreneurs with well-developed ideas, ...

Ten Learning Steps from Entrepreneur to Manager
Forbes (blog)
All successful managers never forget to concentrate on their most important task and stay with it until it is done. As a startup grows, it's easy to try to do too many things at once, while doing nothing particularly well. ...

What's stopping your business from growing?
The Zimbabwe Standard
You too can benefit from such interaction between successful and new and growing entrepreneurs. Please send me an email request to get the events programme for the rest of the year. Upcoming events include networking evenings (Bulawayo June 10, ...

TechStars Boulder: Inside the magic and mentorship of the top startup accelerator
The Next Web
All week long, nearly every interview that I had done mentioned TechStars as one of the driving forces behind the continued success of entrepreneurs in this town, so I knew that I had to get inside and find the special sauce that made the accelerator ...

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Prehype helps corporations ...
The Next Web
Like any startup, pivoting is expected, but Prehype tries to keep it to a 3 month-long schedule, which forces the entrepreneur to limit his or her idea. “It's a lot about the process rather than the actual product. A lot of people think we're an agency ...

SSE Labs Announces Impressive List Of Advisors, Offers Sneak Peek At Latest ...
Washington Post
Stanford has seen many successful entrepreneurs pass through its doors; thanks in part to its proximity to Silicon Valley and the abundant proximate financial and educational resources, the university has long cultivated an entrepreneurial (and ...

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Thirty Startup Companies From Around the World to Launch Their Products at ...
TMC Net
The Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), a nonprofit organization committed to help technology and life science entrepreneur's start and grow successful businesses, recently announced the names of the ...

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Startup Weekend To Take Place In Tampa To Inspire Entrepreneurs
PRLog.Org (press release)
Team will then let their creative juices flow and begin building their startup. There will be knowledgeable and successful entrepreneurs in attendance to inspire, share and help the teams throughout the weekend. The final day teams will have the ...

The Business Insider
Caterina Fake: How To Avoid The Pressure Of The Startup "Sophomore Slump"
The Business Insider
Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake says it applies to entrepreneurship as well, and that it's a risk every entrepreneur faces after a successful exit. “You have to be aware of it and you have to not be afraid to fail," she said. ...

Forbes (blog)
The Entrepreneur Questionnaire: Nir Zuk, Founder of Palo Alto Networks
Forbes (blog)
I felt they were slowing me down so I decided to continue to build things myself. What was the most difficult lesson you have learned as an entrepreneur? Things will go wrong. You cannot expect everything to go smoothly at a startup. ...

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Boulder Likes Its Entrepreneurial Density
Huffington Post (blog)
Kangas fits the profile of the hundreds of young entrepreneurs that duke it out every summer for a coveted spot at Boulder's TechStars. One of Boulder's real success stories over the last few years, led by Boulder entrepreneur David Cohen, ...

3 Questions Entrepreneurs Should Answer Before Choosing An Investor
Huffington Post (blog)
"How should I finance my start-up?" is a common refrain from first-time founders and serial entrepreneurs alike. There is no manual for how to best do this, and intuition can only get you so far in the absence of experience and mentoring. ...

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Talent Grab: Employee Stock Plan Lures Entrepreneurs To Insurance Startup
PropertyCasualty360
But by far the company's biggest challenge and success to date has been recruiting the 50 experienced and motivated employees who today make up our team. In late 2009 and early 2010, prospective Kinsale employees faced a tough choice—to stay with an ...

SSE Labs Announces Impressive List Of Advisors, Offers Sneak Peek At Latest ...
TechCrunch
Stanford has seen many successful entrepreneurs pass through its doors; thanks in part to its proximity to Silicon Valley and the abundant proximate financial and educational resources, the university has long cultivated an entrepreneurial (and ...

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TiE turning immigrants into millionaires
South Asian Observer
Giving the latest example of successful entrepreneurs mentored by Indian techies, Madan said: 'Just last November, Indo-Canadian Haroon Mirza sold his start-up Cognovision to Intel for $25 million. An engineering graduate, Mirza had a vision, ...

The iPad Success: What It Means For An Entrepreneur
The Business Insider
If you find a market where you can answer these questions, search no more: you have an idea for a great frictionless start-up. Guillaume Decugis, CEO of Scoop.it, hopefully a frictionless way to publish on the Web...

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Entrepreneur Josh Cote Has The F-Factor
Marketwire (press release)
Josh Cote has been involved in business development for over 10 years and offered education on developing successful business models to aspiring entrepreneurs which is a hot topic particularly in the UK right now with the launch of 'Start Up Britain'. ...

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Jorge Silva-Puras: Initiative to foster growth, innovation
Signal
The funds are for entrepreneurs in emerging industries like clean energy, and for those who are in the initial stage of an innovation project. Both funds have been built on SBA's successful Small Business Investment Company program, which operates on a ...

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6 Important Tips for First-Time Startup Investors
Mashable
The thought is that you invest in a lot of deals early on and then narrow your focus in on those that are more successful and require additional funding. You need to realize that even if your startup is successful, it could take five or more years to ...

One Wyoming Entrepreneur's Blueprint for Success
KGWN
"Before we jumped right into it though we did take a next level training class out at LCCC and that was like a entrepreneur start up class and that was very, very helpful," Mary Levenhagen said. Bob says the resources Wyoming has for small businesses ...