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3/11/2010
Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?” It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs. And it obviously depends on the kind of business you’re building.
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3/11/2010
Women’s wages still fall behind men’s: They earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to the U.S. Census, but women-owned businesses are not the anomalies they were.
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3/11/2010
Hardly a week goes by where we don’t receive a company pitch from a hopeful startup trying to crash the group deals scene. And for good reason, since venture capital firms seem happy to throw cash at well-executed takes on the business model.
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3/11/2010
"While GE has some of the world's best in-house research capabilities, it's important to stay connected with great technology all over the globe," says Todd Alhart, a spokesman for General Electric Global Research. "We always welcome new ideas from inventors and entrepreneurs."
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3/10/2010
Businessmen Sam Morgan, Stephen Tindall and Rod Drury are part of "an early stage" venture to build a submarine fibre cable between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, with five times the capacity of the existing Southern Cross system.
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3/11/2010
Now in its 10th year, INC.spire has helped to foster 49 companies, helping to attract $45 million in business to the area, adding more than 450 local jobs and filling 80,000 square feet of office space, according to the chamber.
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3/10/2010
I’ll say this about Brazilian startups—they’re certainly not dominated by Web copycats. Perhaps it’s the country’s noted isolationist streak, or perhaps it was just the startups I lucked into meeting.
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3/10/2010
Great management teams know that the only way to improve a process is to start by measuring it. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In this post I hope to help show how to figure out which metrics matter the most, and how to design them in such a way as to drive behavior that will lead to the results that you want.
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3/10/2010
One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. Richards, who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, and managing director at Tickets.com. Robin's latest startup is Internships.com (www.internships.com), an online site focused on aggregating internship opportunities and providing resources to potential interns.
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3/10/2010
We are in an era of accelerating change, moving toward a future that will be profoundly different from the past we grew up in. But what will the nature of that change be? What will the future look like? For the last 7 days I have been in an executive program designed by Singularity University to give some insight into that complex question.
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3/10/2010
Virgin Media has teamed up with Enterprise UK Today’s to launch a new youth mentoring scheme called Virgin Media Pioneers. The scheme will bring together entrepreneurs and established business experts in an online community, which will be complemented by a series of skills development sessions and networking events to help support the enterprising activity taking place online and an annual award ceremony to recognise the achievements of the Pioneer community.
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3/9/2010
While we do need a government that supports entrepreneurship I am not sure the Israel model of the government providing eighty percent of the funds that a start up requires is the answer. In India it will lead to favoritism, cronyism and corruption
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3/10/2010
India's entrepreneurial journey is a few years behind China's own path, but the gap is narrowing. I was surprised to see this in a recent three-week stint of interviews there. Yet China still has unique advantages over India, which I'll get to later.
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3/10/2010
A Toronto startup has come up with a way to put solar power systems on the rooftops of new homes at no cost to the owners. In fact, the homeowner would get paid to let it happen.
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3/10/2010
There's a folksy saying that a man ought to put his money where his mouth is. Cattle baron Paul F. Engler has done that in a big way on repeated occasions during his long career. This time the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the beneficiary.
Engler earlier this month announced a $20 million donation that will be used, among other things, to support an agribusiness entrepreneurship program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The gift is the largest in the history of the UNL Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Engler, 80, has been practicing and preaching entrepreneurship all his life.
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3/9/2010
If you rely upon the Internet in any way for your startup, business, learning or to feed your addiction to World of Warcraft, you'll be interested that Pew Internet has released its fourth report on the Internet's future titled "Future of the Internet IV."
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3/9/2010
His long-awaited report for the Conservatives on the health of the country's science and engineering base pulls few punches and is critical of the current government's tendency to favour soundbites over substance. Surely, he argues, all businesses of value are creative. Such activity is certainly not limited to those in the arts, design and media world.
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3/9/2010
Entrepreneurship - starting a business from your kitchen table and growing it into a money-making machine - has always looked glamorous. But as Zamek pointed out to an audience of wanna-be entrepreneurs last month, "It is so much harder than working for someone else. You make major sacrifices."
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3/9/2010
Employees of the Galleria came up with the idea for the Gardens Under Glass project, a so-called urban ecovillage inside the mall that features carts of fruits and vegetables grown on-site. The project was recently given a $30,000 start-up grant from Cleveland's Civic Innovation Lab.
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3/9/2010
Dubai Airport Freezone's initiative, a business incubation center, was introduced today to leaders of various business councils in Dubai. The Dubai Enterprise Centre (DEC) is a high quality, full service business incubation center launched by Dubai Airport Free Zone at its facilities in Dubai, UAE.
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3/9/2010
Times are good for geeks these days, especially as the Quebec government is poised to invest hundreds of millions in public money into startup businesses, many of which include Montreal's high-tech sector.
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3/9/2010
After going through a four-month business boot camp, a dozen local entrepreneurs have become the first graduating class in San Diego of The Founders Institute — a program that matches would-be startups with successful chief executives from other firms.
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3/9/2010
Not everybody is making money off the Internet – but some are, and those who can access their secrets have an opportunity to build their own little startup, or use the skill they develop to get hired by a company looking to advance its Web business.
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3/8/2010
As it turns out, no one is discussing cupcakes as an economic savior. But, if the founders of Atomic Bakery have their way, cupcakes and tasty treats could lead to growth in sectors other than your waistline.
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3/8/2010
Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, a two-day contest that takes place during SXSW Interactive, is aimed at giving companies the opportunity to showcase pioneering or emerging technology, products or services to a crowd of industry leaders.
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3/8/2010
Florida business leaders face an uncomfortable reality: For many young professionals and entrepreneurs, the Sunshine State just isn't cool.
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3/8/2010
In 2002, a group of Babson College entrepreneurship students ran out of room on their whiteboard. They had spent hours brainstorming new business possibilities, and the sudden space crunch threatened to cramp their creativity. Instead, it sparked a new idea: Why not make paint that turned walls into giant whiteboards?.
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3/8/2010
The interesting part about the restaurant business is that a lot of people can become chefs and restaurant owners without a lot of knowledge about the restaurant business itself. You need to understand what a profit and loss statement is and how it works. You can't just be a chef or a sommelier. I've always been good with money and numbers.
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3/7/2010
A startup led by chip veteran Alex Lidow has officially announced its formation, disclosed its supply-chain partners and unveiled its first products in the emerging gallium nitride (GaN) arena.
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3/5/2010
I am certainly not naively suggesting that the university suddenly discard all its institutional safeguards for the benefit of promoting a thriving Venture Lab. What I am saying is that it is important for university administrators and tech transfer offices to understand that there is a great distinction between licensing intellectual property to large, existing companies (”Industry” as we say) and licensing IP (and taking equity in!) a fledgling entity that is being formed for the express purpose of commercializing that IP.
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3/5/2010
Should My Startup Be Incorporated?E-Commerce TimesMy simple answer to whether or not you should incorporate your startup is that you should choose any form of business that protects your personal assets. ...
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3/5/2010
While it's good to learn from your mistakes, it's even better to learn from someone else's. Pioneering Internet businesses like eBay and Amazon.com had to learn a lot the hard way.
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3/5/2010
I certainly didn't anticipate how incredibly difficult it would be to forge a new business, in a new medium, creating a market that didn't exist before, selling products that were so new fangled that people didn't believe their eyes.
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3/5/2010
It sounds like science fiction - using implants to regenerate human tissues that then become one with the body with no need for removal or replacement. But it's just another day at the office for Tim Smith, chief executive officerof Octane Medical Group, a biotechnology firm that makes regenerative medical products.
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3/5/2010
Michael Crandell, co-founder and CEO of RightScale, had no intention of letting dad soak up all the limelight. Three years ago, he launched a local startup company, which already has made some big noise in the world of technology. Since May 2007, RightScale has been an industry leader in what is known as “cloud computing” management.
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3/4/2010
His struggle to find financing mirrors the efforts of many Czech entrepreneurs at finding venture capital in what one expert calls "the worst country" in Europe for startups.
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3/4/2010
Based in Philly, the DreamIt startup incubator helps people with ideas move the ideas forward into full startups. The group provides mentoring, connections, startup community and cash up to $30,000.
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3/4/2010
Ann Arbor’s technology entrepreneurs chose office space in the Northern Brewery building on Jones Drive over the years because of its location, its historic loft-like offices and its reputation as a creative hub. But for nearly a year, a portion of the building has been building its own identity as a unique collaboration among many early-stage companies.
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3/4/2010
Trunki – which makes luggage with wheels, which young children can ride on – is now a thriving internet based business worth more than £2m and sells one of its creations every 3.5 minutes...
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3/4/2010
No, Walker isn't a hairstylist. What he is is a businessman who saw a niche -- an opportunity to offer a much-needed service.