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Rockstar Entrepreneurs in DC to Push for a StartUp Visa
Ortmans Jonathan
3/8/2010
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More than a dozen rockstar entrepreneurs and startup financiers have decided it was time to visit Washington, DC. They have taken three days of their busy schedules this week to push for the passage StartUp Visa Act of 2010, a bill that would make it...

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Nationwide 'Startup Tour' to Find the Best Startups in America
Marich Mark
3/10/2010
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Robert X. Cringely, author of the technology blog “I, Cringely” (www.cringely.com), has launched a plan to restart the economy called “Cringely's (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour.” People are invited to nominate startup companies in six different categories, discuss them, and vote for favorites on...

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Job Generating High-Growth Firms
Marich Mark
3/10/2010
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According to a new Kauffman Foundation study, High-Growth Firms and the Future of the American Economy, high-growth firms account for a disproportionate share of job creation despite their relatively small numbers.

More specifically, the study showed, that so-called “gazelle” firms (ages three to five) comprise...

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States’ Antiquated IT Infrastructure
Marich Mark
3/10/2010
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Vivek Wadhwa, senior research associate at the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University, has a new article on BusinessWeek. In “States, Innovate in IT or Else,” Wadhwa looks at the way antiquated and expensive IT systems...

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States and Cities Efforts to Help Small Businesses
Marich Mark
3/10/2010
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Elizabeth Olson’s New York Times article “What States and Cities are Doing to Help Small Businesses” highlights several initiatives at the state and municipality levels to save small businesses and jobs.

The local approaches are as varied as subsidizing wages for new hires, running a...

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What America Needs
Marich Mark
3/11/2010
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Texas’ Wilson County News published an interesting essay by Craig Columbus about education and solving the job crisis, “What America Needs: A Bumper Crop of Young Entrepreneurs.”

The insufficient private sector job growth, the author argues, signals the need to produce more entrepreneurs. Ironically, America’s...

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Global Entrepreneurship: A Common Language
Ortmans Jonathan
3/15/2010
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Last week’s Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Dubai was a historic gathering not only because -- under the patronage of Sheik Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan of the UAE -- it brought together entrepreneurship leaders from nearly 100 nations, but because it heralded a new era...

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A Look at Innovation Daily (March 8 - 14, 2010)
Marich Mark
3/15/2010
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Each day, Innovation Daily checks the pulse of global innovation -- courtesy of Innovation America and its founder, Rich Bendis. Here, we take a look at a handful of relevant stories it compiled last week:    Tech Entrepreneurship: Does the City You Live in Even Matter?  (from...

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This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy (March 15 - 19)
Marich Mark
3/15/2010
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010House Science & Technology Committee -- Subcommittee on Research and Science Education - Hearing"Broadening Participation in STEM"10:00 a.m.2318 Rayburn House Office Building[more info]Tuesday, March 16, 2010 House Appropriations Committee - Full Committee – Hearing"FY 2011 Budget and Economic Outlook"10:00 am2359 Rayburn House...

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Improving the America COMPETES Act
Marich Mark
3/16/2010
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The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has released a new report: “Eight Ideas for Improving the America COMPETES Act.” Robert Atkinson, ITIF President, argues that reauthorizing the America COMPETES Act provides an opportunity to continue policies the U.S. needs to compete in the innovation-based...

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