online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Stock Quotes. more in Small Business. Live Chat Recap.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Starting in 2005 with 300 attendees from a variety of backgrounds (research, academia and entrepreneurs), this past conference had 1200 attendees from large enterprises, government and a lot more startups and entrepreneurs. The US and UK government publish their data on the web as Linked Data. Don’t repeat yourself!

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

One-fifth of New York’s entrepreneurs are women and it’s home to twice as many female-run startups as Silicon Valley. “I guess there are a lot of reasons for this,” Hermann says, “but what is really interesting is that the number of female entrepreneurs has not influenced at all the performance of the ecosystem.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It was a call to arms for all who want Massachusetts to remain a competitive environment for entrepreneurs to build ventures that change the world. The plethora of mentorship opportunities for entrepreneurs is mind-boggling — programs like TechStars and Mass Challenge , not to mention myriad business-plan contests.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Whether opening a new business or expanding an existing one, when evaluating new markets, many entrepreneurs ask themselves several questions: Is there a demand for my product or service in the area? Boston, Massachusetts. Small business partnerships are key to creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2012

Big Government - or Small Business? There are, of course, those who say SEA won’t work, that it’s just another “big government” program. There are, of course, those who say SEA won’t work, that it’s just another “big government” program. Gerber counters that argument this way: “Government can’t cure all woes. The results?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. You can register to attend here. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I have long been a champion of Indian product companies, urging the entrepreneurs to think beyond labor arbitrage and outsourcing. No investment is possible without that validation, whether it is government grants (and there is quite a bit of that available for clean energy projects) or angel or venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Entrepreneurs pitching a high-tech startup idea to investors or FDA scientists describing new research affecting the health and safety of the American public all face the same dilemma of needing to describe their areas of expertise in layman’s terms. Success generally depends on others taking action as a result of your speech.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company. It is clear to me, after doing these coaching sessions for over two years, that entrepreneurs need a lot more training on positioning and go-to-market. You can find details in the blog post on [link]. DealCurrent.com.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

One or two companies existed which at the time were described as startups, but in reality were government-backed small companies attempting, and ultimately failing, to execute business plans. I left the UK joining a newly formed startup, Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as one of the founding scientists. The Foundry.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2015

Both Jeff and I have been working hard on making it much easier for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visa’s to start their companies in the US. Last year Jeff and a bunch of his friends in Massachusetts created the Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur in Residence pilot program.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Louis’s local economy and UMSL’s curricular and non-curricular offerings to its students by attracting talented entrepreneurs from around the world to relocate their business to St. Missouri is our fourth state to go live following Massachusetts, Colorado, and Alaska. I hope more cities engage with immigrant entrepreneurs the way St.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2015

While there has periodically been improvement on the margins on the issue, I think our federal government has broadly failed us on this front. Yesterday, CU Boulder announced a new Entrepreneurs in Residence program to be administered by the Silicon Flatirons program. Government cu boulder eir silicon flatirons Startup Visa'

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 7, 2008

What they haven't fully yet processed is that we are in the midst of the greatest wave of government intervention in business since the New Deal. I moderated a very timely panel yesterday at the MIT VC Conference on the new role of government in business in general, and entrepreneurship in particular.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Fascinating story of student entrepreneur Thomas McCabe who has a start-up ( Get-bitcoin.com ) in the digital currency space. But he has still insured his assets for up to $50,000 to guard against lawsuits from the government, banks and angry customers.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Strikingly, there are now several state and city government programs specifically designed to make it easier for non-Americans to found companies in NYC. This is the first citywide program in the US that allows a city (New York) to retain and attract foreign entrepreneurs by offering access to uncapped H1B visas.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

If you’re interested in starting your company in Silicon Valley, check out these resources: Silicon Vikings Entrepreneur Resources. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Singapore’s rise as a startup hub can be attributed to government support, a hospitable environment for startups, and a diverse and inclusive startup community.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. What’s bringing them here?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 16, 2015

There is now a fix for high-skilled, immigration entrepreneurs that can be implemented TODAY with no legislation required. Only 85,000 H1-B visas are normally issued each year to immigration entrepreneurs and high-skilled technology workers. Colorado adopts Massachusetts program to help retain foreign talent. That is new news.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In this article he opines: "I would have loved to have seen the stimulus package include a government-funded venture capital bank to help finance all the start-ups that are clearly not starting up today — in the clean-energy space they’re dying like flies — because of a lack of liquidity from traditional lending sources.".

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

This new dynamic was evident when I joined 100 CEOs from Massachusetts in a pilgrimmage to our nation's capital as part of my role as co-chair of the Progressive Business Leaders Network (PBLN). And it seems the US Government is determined to facilitate this by pouring billions to stimulate the sector.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

His essay caused me to step back and reflect on the fact that I am seeing more entrepreneurs inspired to harness the power of some of the forces he describes - entrepreneurship, technology, innovation and shockingly fast productivity - to make a positive societal impact. Don't get me wrong - I love wealth-focused entrepreneurs, too.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.)

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Throughout the discussion, Dr. Li and Hoffman explored the extensive AI landscape of today, including the practical applications for AI; how academia and industry leaders are working with the federal government to advance AI research; and Dr. Li’s work as the co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit AI4ALL.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Throughout the discussion, Dr. Li and Hoffman explored the extensive AI landscape of today, including the practical applications for AI; how academia and industry leaders are working with the federal government to advance AI research; and Dr. Li’s work as the co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit AI4ALL.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Both entrepreneurs share ownership, and have shared input and participation in the company. So too would be a pair of entrepreneurs launching an online consulting business, two master brewers starting a local brewery, and so on—you get the idea. Now you no longer have a sole proprietorship—you have a partnership.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. We also believe that progressive immigration policies help us attract and retain some of the brightest minds on earth—scientists, entrepreneurs, and creators. Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. We also believe that progressive immigration policies help us attract and retain some of the brightest minds on earth—scientists, entrepreneurs, and creators. Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple.

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Cofounder Southern California America Artificial Inteligence 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. A lot of them seemed to hate their government and they were annoyed that the government wasn't doing anything.

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