Valley startups rising up from the graveyard
San Jose Mercury News
As Sequoia anticipated, the pace of venture capital investments slowed dramatically, forcing entrepreneurs to scrimp. Many unemployed ... had decided to make some trims before Sequoia's warning, but "it made us go deeper." Ruckus continued ...
Student entrepreneurs get $25,000 challenge
Brookings Register
Winner named in April Successful teams will be announced and investment offers made on April 6, 2010 ... Enrollment in the entrepreneurs' boot camp is not limited to program participants. The sponsoring organizations say any startup compani...
TechCrunch Readers: God is Your Co-Pilot, and Stuff that Piggy Bank
TechCrunch
When pitching to VC’s, entrepreneurs hype the heck out of their ideas, years of experience and management teams. But I’ve never heard of anyone touting their luck or connection to God. After reading the posts on TechCrunch, one could easily...
Outgoing Ficci chief links FDI to infrastructure development
The Daily Star
The outgoing chief of the foreign investors' chamber has suggested that the government immediately move to develop infrastructures, pointing out that entrepreneurs will ... Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has expired, made the suggestion at F...
Obama Says U.S. Will Play Greater Role In Asia
Global Security
For years, he said, Asian entrepreneurs made goods that Americans bought. But with every economic downturn, he noted -- especially the current recession -- Americans abruptly stop buying, at a great cost to Asian manufacturers. Americans no...
Municipal waste solution made in Niagara
Welland Tribune
ST. CATHARINES — It looks like a made-in-Niagara solution to a stinky Niagara problem. A new trash-to-energy technology, developed in the Garden City, claims to avoid the dirty environmental reputation of incineration.[...]
3 South Florida students featured in film about budding entrepreneurs
MalaysiaNews.net
Three teenage entrepreneurs delivered their elevator pitches to global audiences this week as cast members of a new documentary about young start-up starters. Nineteen-year-old Jessica Cervantes and 1...
Silicon Valley's new sport: extreme bootstrapping
San Jose Mercury News
But now, with investment dollars scarce but job-seekers plentiful, Internet entrepreneurs are taking the lean, Spartan ... conceived of Founder Institute in February, after the financial meltdown made a bad recession brutal. It serves as a ...
Unique treats, crafts at MUM Yum Holiday Bazaar
Middletown Journal
Madeline and Anna Burke, 13 and 11 respectively, are true entrepreneurs. The sisters have been selling their homemade “Paw Prints Pet Treats” at the MUM Yum Holiday Bazaar for six straight years.
Three Best Ways to Make Sure Customers Pay
Wall Street Journal
That's made it difficult for entrepreneurs to get a handle on cash-flow and budget projections. According to the latest American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor, some 60% of business owners are experiencing cash-flow issues and 26% are ...
Top Chinese political advisor leaves for visits to the Philippines ...
People's Daily Online
... opening ceremony of the 10th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC) on Nov. 20 in Manila, the Philippines, a biennial gathering of worldwide Chinese entrepreneurs since 1991. Jia made the trips at the invitations of Juan Ponce En...
800 make it a 1M'sia Family Walk
MalaysiaNews.net
Kota Kinabalu: Some 800 people comprising grandparents, mothers, fathers, children, secondary school and college students from the various communities truly made it a 1Malaysia Family Walk, Saturday. ...
Make Money from 2012 Now! - How To Guide
PRLog (free press release)
Not everyone is paralyzed with fear, however; there are a few entrepreneurs out there who know how to profit from the 2012 panic. Such has already been seen from the fact that a movie about it was made! People who are aware of their impendi...
