Entrepeneurship

Seven Lessons for Tech Startups Making Their Public Debut

Emmanuel Schalit | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Coming Out of Beta, Business Lessons, Entrepeneurship, Tech Startup Advice, Beta to Public, Small Business News

Since going public is an experience most tech startups go through, I thought it'd be worth sharing what we have learned from crossing this important milestone. Here are seven important lessons we learned about launching our startup publicly.

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Enthusiasm and Entrepreneurship in Vietnam

Karen Leland | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: North VIetnam, Enthusiasm, Note Taking, Small Business, Technology, Entrepeneurship, Small-Business Entrepeneurs, Small Business America, Small Business News

As small business owners, we have become so overburdened and overwhelmed by the constant bombardment of our marketing to-do list and social media strategies, I think we sometimes forget that what should ultimately drive our small businesses is enthusiasm.

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Are You a Multiplier or a Diminisher?

Karen Leland | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Small Business, Leaders, Executives, Entrepeneurship, Diminishers, Multipliers, Leadership Skills, Liz Wiseman, Management Skills, Small Business News

Do you drain intelligence, energy and capability from the people around you? Or do you use your intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of your colleagues?

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The Internet Did Not Sink the Markets a Decade Ago, the Markets Almost Sunk the Internet

Martin Varsavsky | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Fon, Internet, Martin-Varsavsky-Internet, Entrepeneurship, Business News

Looking back at 2001/2002 I see this time not as a period in which Internet companies destroyed the financial markets, but as a time in which the financial markets almost destroyed the Internet.

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The Initiative Empowering Women Entrepreneurs

ft.com | Charlotte Clarke | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Gender Equality, Entrepeneurship, Women in Business, Female Empowerment, Business, Business Startups, 10000 Women Program, Investing in Women, World News

Earlier this year a group of entrepreneurs held an indoor market at the Arizona campus of the Thunderbird School of Global Management. The 28 entrepre...

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Whole Foods Helps Empower Low-Income Entrepreneurs

Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Whole Foods Market, Grameen America, Microcredit, Video, Stephen Vogel, Whole Planet Foundation, Muhammad Yunus, Nicole Gates, Entrepeneurship, Impact News

To empower entrepreneurs in low-income communities, Whole Foods Market's foundation has partnered with a microfinance organization to help budding bus...

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Startup Bus: 48 Hours To Launch A Business

Joan K. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepeneurship, Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Small Business America, Business News

Six buses filled with teams of sleep-deprived innovators are headed to Austin, TX on a collective quest to prove that, with the right combination of energy and talent, a viable business startup can be launched from scratch in just 48 hours.

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Y'Want Jobs? Small Business? Then Fund Education

Tim Berry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business Owners, Small Business, Job-Creation, Entrepeneurship, Taxes, Education, Regulations, Economy, Startups, Immigration, Entrepreneurs, Job Creation, Small Business America, Business News

How ironic is it, with all this national talk about small business and job creation and entrepreneurship, that the funding of public education is crumbling all over the United States?

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Entrepreneurs Counting Down to 2011

Cheryl Wills | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Business, Martin Gover, Small Business, Carl Redding, Momentum Sports Management, Entrepeneurship, Business News

In all the discussion about how the recession has ravaged Wall Street, few seem to be focused on entrepreneurs who have been soldiering on in the worst of times.

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Time to Scale Up, NYC!

Eric Hippeau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business-Incubator, New York Business, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Venture Capital, NYC Economic Development Corporation Venture Fellows, Human Capital, Michael Bloomberg, Entrepeneurship, Small Business America, New York News

By providing seasoned mentors to growing companies and start-ups, the NYC Economic Development Corporation Venture Fellows program gives innovative entrepreneurs a pivotal leg up.

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You Can't Cut Your Way Out -- You Have to Build Your Way Out

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Deficit, Innovation, Entrepeneurship, Debt, National Debt, Politics News

Instead of our political leaders ending corporate communism and releasing our country's entrepreneurs to challenge our problems and fix our broken institutions they accept campaign cash to protect them.

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Put the Politics Aside and Get to the Business of Broadband

Navarrow Wright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Broadband Plan, Internet, Broadband, Net Neutrality, Entrepeneurship, Digital Divide, Technology News

It should be both our duty and our privilege to move past anger and aggression and coalesce around the creation of meaningful opportunities that benefit us all. It's time to put the politics aside, and get down to the business of broadband.

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PayPal Founder Offers Students $100,000 To 'Stop Out of School'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital, Paypal, Entrepeneurship, Stop Out of School, Facebook, Techcrunch, Education Grants, Silicon Valley, Impact News

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, announced in an interview for TechCrunch Disrupt that he is starting a grant program to encourage kids to "stop out...

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The Next Big Movement: Natural Conversations

Anthony Tjan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smart Phone, Technology, Entrepeneurship, Technology News

There used to be a time when you could go to have a lunch or dinner with someone and you could have, well, lunch or dinner. During that lunch or dinner you could reasonably expect uninterrupted conversation.

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How to Win Big

Eric Haseltine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Profitable Businesses, Neuroscience, Long Term Success, Business Strategies, Entrepeneurship, Business News

By understanding that our brains automatically crank up the perceived urgency of here-and-now problems, we can set these perceived emergencies aside for just a few moments in order to think big.

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Dodd's Bill Is an Angel Killer

Rick Tumlinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dodd Bill, Financial Reform, Entrepeneurship, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Tech Start-Ups, Commercial Space, Startups, Business News

The Dodd bill will choke off innovation and wealth creation at exactly the same time the president is trying to kick start it by smothering the vitality of what needs to be a dynamic and open area of creativity.

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A New Damascus

Nancy F. Koehn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Leaders, Corporate, Bill Gates, Entrepeneurship, Business News

If we think just about resources--people, innovation, traction, money, and execution--business is the most powerful force for change on the global stage right now.

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FCC Threads the Needle on Broadband

Navarrow Wright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Policy, National Broadband Plan, Net Neutrality, Entrepeneurship, Digital Divide, Technology News

Last week, the FCC issued its long-awaited report on how to fulfill President Obama's goal of expanding affordable broadband. www.broadband.gov/plan/ ...

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Entrepreneurial Opportunity More Than a Click Away

Navarrow Wright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadband, Entrepreneur, Digital Divide, Entrepeneurship, Internet, Start-Ups, Minorities, Technology News

Our greatest hope for economic recovery lies not in a return to traditional trade, manufacturing or corporate jobs, but in our ability to transition to the future, to actively take part in America's burgeoning digital economy.

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Reset: Jobs and What We Need to Do Now

John Hope Bryant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Self-Employment, Small Business, Jobs Crisis, Love-Leadership-the-New-Way-to-Lead-in-a-Fear-Based-World, Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant, Entrepeneurship, Jobs, Operation Hope, Global Economic Crisis, Business News

This is not a recession; it's a reset, and corporate jobs are not going to save us, in part because they're not coming back anytime soon

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Who Pays the Price for Net Neutrality?

Navarrow Wright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Broadband, National Broadband, Civil Rights, FCC Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Entrepeneurship, Technology News

I love myself some Google and I'm not mad at the fact that they want a free ride. But the question is, who is going to pay for that free ride?

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America's Midwest: Cashless Chasm or the Valley of Opportunity?

Jeff Bocan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Midwest, Jeff Bocan, Michigan, Entrepeneurship, Innovation, Funding, Venture Capital, Beringea, Business News

I want to offer a macro-level view of the larger opportunity I see in both Michigan and the Midwest, as a venture capitalist looking for small businesses that have a chance to become much, much bigger businesses.

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Sustainable Food Ripe for Entrepreneurs to Drive Forward

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Farms, Innovation, Investments, Entrepeneurship, Retail Sales, Cooking, Food, Agriculture, Trends, Sustainability, Business, Consumers, Green News

While perhaps it's not "broken," America's industrial food system has developed side effects that are accelerating in severity; diet-related health and environmental issues can no longer be ignored.

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Taxing The Rich Hurts The Middle Class

Grant Cardone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Cuts for the Rich, Wealthy, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Money, 401k, Economy, Retirement, Middle Class, Property Taxes, Recession, Economics, Economic Crisis, Trickle Down Effect, Working for the Wealthy, Entrepeneurship, Owning a Business, Business News

This is not a trickle down argument but basic economics, as it is impossible to penalize any one group without affecting every person in the group.

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It's the Economy, Stupid!

Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Election 2008, Barack Obama, First Presidential Debate, Presidential Debates, Bailout, Small Business, John McCain, Tax Increase, Wall Street Crash, Economic Crisis, George W. Bush, Vice-Presidential Candidates, World Economy, Entrepeneurship, Middle Class Economics, Financial Crisis, Warren Buffett, American Idol, Politics News

At a time of crisis, intelligent rule and leadership are crucial for the masses and the world's economy. I am praying that level heads prevail, to save our country and our economy.

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