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  • Will It be You

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    The next great entrepreneur is out there. Visit www.willitbeyou.com, a Kauffman website that provides would - be founders with resources to help them get their plans moving — whether they are seeking inspiration, mentoring, networking or other assistance. And be sure to watch the Kauffman PSA that aired during the 2012 Super Bowl.

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  • Startup Cafe

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    Visit Startup Café, a new online platform created by Google in collaboration with Entreprenruship.org. The website aims to organize information and tools French entrepreneurs need and enables networking within the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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  • GEC

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    The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is seeking experts on high-growth entrepreneurship policy to contribute to the creation of a global policy roadmap for advancing entrepreneurship. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for papers to be considered for presentation at a roundtable discussion at the Kauffman-sponsored Global Entrepreneurship Congress, March 11-12, 2012, in Liverpool, UK.

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  • eMed

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    The insightful home of the current and future state of healthcare entrepreneurship. Learn and contribute information about policy, peers, competitor innovations and the issues changing healthcare entrepreneurship.

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  • E equals R

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    Entrepreneurs have led the U.S. out of every recession of the last 100 years. Get your FREE E=R decal today and spread the word that entrepreneurs will lead the economic recovery.

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e360 blog

Visit the e360 blog for fresh commentary and insights on entrepreneurship.

A Bridge Over the Valley of Death
Feb. 10
Super Sunday Can Inspire Super Startups
Jan. 31
Kauffman Scholar Debuts Blog on Wired.com
Jan. 5
Making a List
Dec. 16
Introducing the Bipartisan Startup Act
Dec. 9
New in the Sketchbook Series: Money Game
Dec. 2

Featured Articles

"What's In Your Head?" Founder Interviews from Inc. 500|5000 2011
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Start-Up Chile. Seeking to fund 1,000 startups by 2014.
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The Icehouse Entrepreneurship Program
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Nature or nurture? Decoding the DNA of the entrepreneur
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Entrepreneurial IQ Scholarship Opportunity
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What Entrepreneurs Do
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Events

View big events happening around the world of entrepreneurship.

Sunday, February 05, 2012
Global Entrepreneurship Training
Friday, February 10, 2012
I69 Collegiate Challenge
Friday, February 10, 2012
Ballmer Peakathon
Friday, February 10, 2012
Startup Weekend LA Media
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Executive Program in Innovation

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In The News

Venture Capital, Disrupted
2/7/2012 11:01:06 PM

For a new generation of technology company founders, money is the easy part. Silicon Valley's venture capitalists make their money by funding ideas that disrupt established industries. But these gatekeepers of the technology business are now being challenged themselves.

Startup VA study shows a 'sleeping giant' of tech M&A
2/7/2012 5:19:54 PM

Boosting intramarket M&A is a big focus of Startup Virginia, a regional arm of President Obama's Startup America Partnership that Aberman co-chairs. The report's release comes a week after Startup Virginia's launched last week.

Obama Unveils a Jobs Plan To Train Post-9/11 Servicemembers
2/6/2012 1:45:37 PM

President Obama on Friday unveiled new initiatives aimed at turning veterans into firefighters, police officers and entrepreneurs.

Google's Tech City incubator to open within weeks
2/7/2012 5:45:07 AM

Google is preparing to open its new communal workspace in East London's Tech City "in a few weeks," and has launched a website for startup companies to register their interest.

Oh, Say Can You Sing? Business Lessons of the National Anthem
2/6/2012 9:32:26 AM
As a person who thinks a lot about small business, it's the national anthem that strikes me as the part of the game with the most salient business lessons to offer.
3 Numbers All Entrepreneurs Should Know
2/6/2012 9:43:24 AM

To make good decisions, you need good data. That's a given, right? But in a start-up, what data should you be looking at?

AngelList: How A Silicon Valley Mogul Found His Passion
2/6/2012 8:15:21 AM

Naval Ravikant left Dartmouth College for Silicon Valley and after helping a few start-ups succeed found his passion -- connecting investors and entrepreneurs. A key Ravikant insight -- personality is destiny when it comes to start-up success.

Facebook IPO Means Big Business for Thousands of Smaller Companies
2/3/2012 1:10:52 PM

The number of startups that have sprung up in recent years to make money via Facebook's platform easily runs into the tens of thousands, said Steve Garrity, co-founder of Hearsay Social.

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