Globe and Mail
Why entrepreneurs and corporate chiefs make bad bedfellows
Globe and Mail
Sarasvathy compared 45 super-entrepreneurs (all had at least 15 years' experience, had started at least four companies and had taken one public) with a group of equally successful big-company chief executive officers. One of her key findings was the ...

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Real Money: CBRE Lines Up ING Financing
CoStar Group
The company intends to use the net proceeds to repay debt under its revolving credit facility, for hotel investments and for general business purposes. plans to sell 9.5 million common shares in a public offering. At its current trading price of ...

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Don't romanticize owning your own business; it requires work
Reno Gazette Journal
Mark Zuckerberg may be the highly successful entrepreneur who created Facebook, but Carol Roth sighs when she hears his name. "Everyone wants to jump on that bandwagon," she said, referring Zuckerberg's phenomenal startup success. ...

Novell Reports Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2011
TTKN News
... risks related to the diversion of management's attention from Novell's ongoing business operations; risks regarding the failure of Attachmate to obtain the necessary financing to complete the merger; the effect of the announcement of the merger and ...

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Silicon Prairie News
Startup Weekend Des Moines: Reflections of a past participant
Silicon Prairie News
Startup Weekend, the global organization, has grown in that time, too. That validation can be visualized by their grant funding from the Kauffman Foundation and their recent write-up in Entrepreneur magazine, but I notice it much more in how they ...

Calendar of upcoming business events
Indianapolis Star
CORE Seminar: Small Business Financing, 3 to 4:30 pm Small Business Administration, 8500 Keystone Crossing, Suite 400. Presented by SCORE, Counselors to America's Small Business. Register online. Registration required. Free. Visit www.indyscore.org. ...

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Ex-Googlers penetrating Silicon Valley startup hierarchy
San Jose Mercury News
"Going to Google, I really wanted to learn the skills that would make me a successful entrepreneur on my own." WeatherBill, whose chief technical officer, Siraj Khaliq, also came from Google, aims to build a highly profitable business that will also ...

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Task Force: San Diego's Budget Gaps Remain Chasms
Voice of San Diego
Vince Mudd, an unelected Poway resident and owner of an office interiors business, beats one of the most comprehensive and consistent drums for financial reform in the city of San Diego. This report is the newest from his 10-member task force of ...

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IFC Boosts Philippine Bank's Capital to Support Lending to Small Enterprises
Media Newswire (press release)
This will support the growth of retail financial services, particularly for micro, small, medium enterprises that account for over 98 percent of total employment in the Philippines. “This investment helps open up new business areas for RCBC while ...

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Startup America Travels to South by Southwest
The White House (blog)
Over 150 entrepreneurs, investors, and others challenged Administration officials on ideas like extending student loan deferments for startups and a new immigration category called “startup visa”.

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On SXSWi-Bound Startup Bus, Tech Entrepreneurs Race to Hatch New Businesses
PC Magazine
Six busloads of 150 tech entrepreneurs boarded the Startup Bus in a 48-hour race to throw together a viable business as they travel to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) in Austin, Texas. But the goal of the Startup Bus is not just ...
Startup Bus: An Entrepreneurial Rite of Passage En Route to SXSWHuffington Post (blog)

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Ex-Googlers penetrating Silicon Valley startup hierarchy
San Jose Mercury News
"Going to Google, I really wanted to learn the skills that would make me a successful entrepreneur on my own." WeatherBill, whose chief technical officer, Siraj Khaliq, also came from Google, aims to build a highly profitable business that will also ...

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Coon Rapids council offers financial help to company
Coon Rapids Herald
MEDRAD/Possis, which as Possis has been located in Evergreen Business Park for many years, contacted city staff last year about financial assistance for an expansion project. Possis was acquired by MEDRAD, a subsidiary of Bayer, in 2008. ...

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Finance Forum at Shah Center to Help Small Businesses
Patch.com
Participants will be provided with information, networking opportunities, and the opportunity to talk to people and learn more about financing and ways to grow their business. “If you can find a creative way to grown your business, that helps McHenry ...

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Evergreen Solar Reports Audited Fourth Quarter Financial Results
Business Wire (press release)
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NasdaqCM: ESLR), a manufacturer of String Ribbon® solar power products with its proprietary, low-cost silicon wafer technology, today announced audited financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, ...

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Technorati
Why Aren't There More Women Entrepreneurs?
Technorati
As an aspiring female entrepreneur myself, I think it's natural to look around for others similar to you who have accomplished what you would like to accomplish, examine how they got from Point A to Point B, and then mimic that path to success yourself ...

Evaluating NY's Tech Startup Incubators
NY Convergence
While he “wholeheartedly believes” that a quality program can have a huge impact on an entrepreneurs success, he states that “for all the good they provide, they are not for everyone.” Birch then went on to give a list of things to consider when ...

LDK Solar: Understanding Recent Financing Activities
Seeking Alpha
With the company's gross profit potential still under realized, it's not hard to understand why LDK is willing to pay more to finance its business until fully normalized metrics can be achieved. Finally, earlier this year LDK raised its Q4 2010 ...

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Secondary Lenders are Getting Money to Main Street
PR Newswire (press release)
The training provides graduates with in-depth knowledge of dozens of lending products, industry know-how and marketing expertise to help them get their own commercial finance business up and running.

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Boeing, Airbus order surge points to global growth
MarketWatch
This week, International Lease Finance Corp., a giant in commercial aircraft leasing, made its first order in more than three years when it said it would buy 100 Airbus A320-neo jets and 33 Boeing 737-800 planes. The A320-neo is the A320 with a more ...

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