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Child Care: A Worker And A Mother

Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 12.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Caregiving, Child Care, Women's Issues, Career Advice, Women Entrepreneurs, Careers, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Advice, Investors, Parenting, Amy Winehouse, Living News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo

I know my responsibility of being a good mom does affect my work. How couldn't it? Recent studies show the average family experiences five "child care crises" each year that cause parents to miss work.

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Cupcake Shop Fad Appeals To Many Entrepreneurs Across The Country

nytimes.com | ELIZABETH OLSON | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Cupcakes, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Online Shopping, Entrepreneurship, Business News

There is no Cupcake Manufacturers Association keeping count, but anecdotal evidence indicates that stand-alone cupcake shops have been spreading not j...

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The Midwest Is Going Off The Grid ... One Turbine At A Time

Jeff Bocan | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Alternative Energy Sources, Venture Capital, Jeff Bocan, Wind Turbines, Wind Energy, Alternative Energy, Beringea, Business News
Jeff Bocan

My infatuation with wind power was titillated in the unlikeliest of places: the background of a Monday Night football game where a tall wind turbine spun gently beyond the stadium's walls.

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Unhappy With Your Bank? Blame Silicon Valley

Patrice Peyret | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Credit Cards, Financial Services, Visa, Debit Cards, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital, Business News
Patrice Peyret

Given the misdeeds of the banking industry, the financial services sector could make huge improvements simply by focusing on serving the ill-served with better, faster and cheaper products.

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Understanding The Heartbeat Of The Economy

Krisztina Holly | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Luck, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Success, Career, Startups, Venture Capital, Business News
Krisztina Holly

There is a common image of entrepreneurs being young renegades that aren't polluted by old ways of thinking. They come into a new industry, with no former biases, and turn it upside down.

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Innovative i4c Campaign Partners With Sarah McLachlan's 2010 Lilith Tour

Brett Greene | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: Dan Fraser, Fund, Sarah McLachlan, i4c Village, Boulder, 2010 Lilith Tour, Minority Entrepreneurs, Green Consumer Markets, Entrepreneurs, Triple Bottom Line, Venture Capital, Natural Foods, Casey Verbeck, Organics, Emerging Markets, Rich Frankenheimer, i4c Campaign, Terry McBride, Marty Diamond, Touchpoint Trust Group, Lilith Fair, Lilith i4c Campaign, Holding Company, Socially Responsible, Impact News
Brett Greene

The 2010 Lilith Tour's partnership with TouchPoint Trust Group is an opportunity for fans to participate in the movement to take control in driving social change.

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Upcoming Obama Conference Could Be Bad News for Small Business

Chris Gunn | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business Act, Small Business, Barack Obama, Nvca, Timothy Geithner, Venture Capital, American Small Business League, National Venture Capital Association, Karen Mills, Business News
Chris Gunn

Small business groups are concerned the real agenda of the upcoming Obama administration small business conference will be to adopt legislation and policy that will change the definition of a small business.

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

Jeff Bocan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

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

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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China Venture Heats up Again

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology

Read More: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Kai-Fu Lee, China, Nasdaq, Technology News
Rebecca Fannin

It's no wonder that China venture is picking up again. Studies show that money spent in Chinese startups produce 12 times more than those in the US. But the window of opportunity is narrowing.

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Why Publishers are Like Venture Capitalists

Mark Coker | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Word Games, Book Publishing, Allegory, Angel Investors, Books, Future of Publishing, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Books News
Mark Coker

I invite you to play the word game. Copy and paste this post into a word processor. Replace "entrepreneurs" with "authors," and "startups" with "books." Now read it again!

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Start-Ups: Business Creating Takes Sharp Drop During Recession

wsj.com | CARI TUNA | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Businesses, Small Business Administration, Business Creation, Economy, Start-Ups, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Recession, Business News

New companies will be crucial to the strength of any economic recovery. Businesses in their first 90 days of life accounted for 14% of hiring in the U...

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Five One-Way Tickets to Michigan, Please

Jeff Bocan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Venture Capital, Michigan, Jeff Bocan, Entrepreneurs, Vc, Entrepreneurship, Economic Revitalization, Beringea, Business News
Jeff Bocan

This summer, I decided to move my wife and three little kids away from the sunny beaches and new media millionaires of Southern California to -- you guessed it -- Michigan.

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From Fast Food Nation to Pro Food Ventures

Rob Smart | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Farms, Retail, Growing Power, The Jungle, Farmers, Food Retail, Will Allen, Upton Sinclair, Business, Fast Food Nation, Innovation, Usda, Slow Money, Michael Pollan, Pro Food, Food Inc., Industrial Food, Sustainable, Organic, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Local, Eric Schlosser, Pro, Investments, Triple Bottom Line, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Business News
Rob Smart

Early pioneers of the sustainable food movement, with dirt on their hands, lessons learned and progress made, have played a critical role in blazing trails for new ventures.

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Why I Love Startups

Holly Hamann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: Vista Ventures, Boulder Ventures, Newsgator, Techstars, Tech Start-Up, Boulder, Venture Capital, Vericept, Foundry Group, Sequel Venture Partners, Colorado, Topspin Media, Ignite Boulder, Entrepreneur, Start-Up Weekend, Access Venture Partners, Lefthand Networks, Matchlogic, Theblogfrog, Denver News
Holly Hamann

Boulder's outdoor culture, innovative spirit and academic environment seem to attract creative types who want to nurture their ideas in a supportive, encouraging environment.

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Banking and Backing the Service Economy

Philip Ives | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Startups, Information Technology, Service Economy, Venture Capital, Business News
Philip Ives

The Obama Administration has said entrepreneurship is vital to the American economy. However, there is no model for support.

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Building Hope: What Yahoo!'s Acquisition of Maktoob.com Means

Faisal Ghori | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Jordan, Tech Startups, Yahoo, Middle East, Startups, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Maktoob.com, Media News
Faisal Ghori

The acquisition signifies that the Middle East has now for the first time become relevant in the eyes of American Internet giants, and with their attention, the region has become globally relevant for its technology-based entrepreneurship.

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Show Me the Money! Using Your Capital To Save The World At This Year's SOCAP Conference

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Social Change, Kevin Jones, Paul Richardson, Social Capital Partners, Grassroots, World Bank, Giirs, New Radicals, Venture Capital, Tim Draimin, Investing, Smart Cookies, Julia Moulden, Derek Dent, Bill Young, Careers, Un, Social Capital, Socap, Sig, Renewal2, Vancity, Kickstarter, Socap Conference, The Giving Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

What's up? It's the second annual SOCAP conference, the world's premiere social capital markets event (social capital investments incorporate three kinds of returns: financial, social, and environmental).

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Five Ways California's Climate Law Will Boost the Economy

Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Green Jobs, California, ab32, Jobs, Economic Stimulus, Clean Energy, Clean Technology, Venture Capital, Global Warming, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Full implementation of AB 32 will dramatically expand the promising figures already displayed by the growth in green jobs and venture capital in the clean energy economy.

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Forget Ponzi Schemes: Try Venture Capital!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Marin County, Bubbles, Venture Capitalists, Start-Ups, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I asked an investment banking friend of mine how many VC deals he knew of in the tech sector over the last ten years. A thousand, he said. And how many are still around? I inquired. Three.

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Marc Andreessen Launches Venture Capital Firm Andreessen Horowitz

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Ben Horowitz, Venture Capital, Marc Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz, Media News

SAN FRANCISCO — Having built and sold two technology startups for a combined $11.7 billion, Marc Andreessen is ready to take a stab at, well, fi...

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Venture Capital: Innovation, or Big Business in Disguise?

Tim Berry | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Sbir, Investment, American Small Business, Venture Capitalists, Business News
Tim Berry

Is venture capital new, innovative small business, or just big business disguised?

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Can the VC Model Help Cure Alzheimer's?

Anthony Tjan | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, Time Magazine, Henry McCance, Alzheimer's, Cure Alzheimer's Fund, Mass General Hospital, Greylock, Business News
Anthony Tjan

Venture capitalists don't seek 5% improvements; they try to invest in things that will be transformational, like Google and Cisco. We wanted to apply the same upside-seeking strategy to Alzheimer's research.

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Obama is Selling the Small Business Administration to the Venture Capital Industry

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business

Read More: High Growth Companies, Small Business, Abuse, Economy, Middle Class, Small Business Innovations Research, Innovation Research, Nvca, Venture Capital, Loopholes, Democrats, Karen Mills, Fraud, Defense Contracting, Barack Obama, Anderson Cooper, Laura Tyson, Sbir, American Small Business League, Republicans, Winslow Sargeant, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

I'm going to sound the alarm on the latest threat to federal small business contracting programs: Obama is going to support legislation that will allow the venture capital industry to dominate them.

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Y Combinator's Paul Graham Wants To Mass Produce Start-ups

Inc. Article | By: Max Chafkin | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Scribd, Xobni, Sam Altman, Justintv, Max Chafkin, Loopt, Paul Graham, Y Combinator, Viaweb, Venture Capital, Inc. Magazine, Start-Up Guru, Redditt, Business News

Paul Graham's company, Y Combinator, is a hybrid venture capital fund and business school that invests in, advises, and, literally, feeds 40 or so ear...

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Facebook CEO Says IPO a Few Years Away

Reuters | Alexei Oreskovic | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Networking, Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg, IPO Market, Venture Capital, Facebook Stock, Facebook, Reuters Global Technology Summit, New York-New York, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that ...

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