Entrepreneurship

This article explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. Distinguishing between general knowledge and economically useful knowledge, we examine the changes over time in the locus and content of new knowledge creation: the role of universities, particularly engineering schools and land-grant universities, industrial laboratories, and corporate research...  

Entrepreneurs who turn to friends and family financing for their startups are taking steps to protect those investors from getting squashed once the big-money deal comes through. MHT spoke with a handful of investors and entrepreneurs who’ve been on the family fundraising circuit before — and lived to talk about it around the holiday dinner table.  

We might as well get the python story over with right off the bat.Bob Goedjen — now 75, retired and volunteering as a counselor helping small-businesses in Silicon Valley — came across the 10-foot snake in the Philippines while serving in the Navy during World War II.  

James Murray, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 00:15:00 Competition looking for 20 UK clean tech firms to pitch to Silicon Valley venture capitalists The government-backed Technology Strategy Board (TSB) yesterday launched a competition designed to help the UK's most promising clean tech startups attract funding from Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists....  

How attractive is San Diego as a place to start a company compared with the Silicon Valley? Santa Barbara? Los Angeles? As a great place to live, it is impossible to beat Southern California. As a place to build a company, the Silicon Valley offers a pool of talent, better access to funding, well-defined technology clusters, and a buzz of excitement that is not easily located in other locations.read more  

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ambit Energy, a leading national retail energy provider based in north Texas, was honored as the fastest-growing privately held company in Dallas for 2009 by the Dallas 100 Awards™ co-founded by Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business and the SMU Caruth Center for Entrepreneurship. “To be recognized as the fastest growing company by the prestigious SMU Cox School of Business for our contribution to north...  

It was perfectly worthwhile to wake up at 3:30 am and head to Cisco’s telepresence room in Santa Clara this morning at the crack of dawn. What followed was an animated discussion with friends – old and new – in the Indian media. For me, above and beyond everything else, it was... ..  

In 1965 the two nations were equal in wealth. Four decades later, their standing was dramatically different. What accounts for the difference? Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every successful public intervention spurring entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts, wasting untold billions in taxpayer dollars. When has governmental...  

This is Global Entrepreneurship Week, and it couldn't come at a better time. We're just beginning to climb out of the biggest economic slump since the Great Depression. Bad economic times beg for good ideas, and the only way those ideas can make a difference is when entrepreneurs turn them into reality. Global Entrepreneurship Week is sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation to encourage young people around the world to explore their potential...  

That's because venture capitalists tend to underprice IPOs to benefit their own firms, according to the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research, while the interests of angel investors are more closely aligned with entrepreneurs'. The center looked at all the companies that went public from 2001 to 2007 and figured out how they were funded -- whether their investors were angels, venture capitalists, both or none. Venture...  

Editor’s note: Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at ...  

Startups may have a high failure rate, but they also are a leading driver of job creation in the U.S., according to a report put out by The Kauffman Foundation this morning. As part of a deeper look at what small business means for the U.S. economy, the study found that 1- to 5-year-old [...]  

Small Business Administration proposes new definitionsPrairie BusinessThe US Small Business Administration is proposing increases in the size definitions for three broad commercial sectors. The proposed increases cover size ...SBA expands training to Native Americans near SeattleHeraldNetSBA expands veterans' programOrlando Business JournalSBA program targets Native business ownersBizjournals.comNew Albany Tribune -Earthtimes (press release...  

AT&T Recognized by Leading Analyst Firm With 'SMB Excellence Award' for Small ...CNNMoney.com (press release)The award was given in recognition of the outstanding SMB Web experience provided by AT&T's Small Business InSite and the Small Business Mobile Application ...and more »  

Cdn Banks Lose Share Of Small-Business Mkt On Poor ServiceWall Street JournalBy Monica Gutschi Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Canadian banks are ceding market share in the fast-growing small-business sector to the country's credit unions, ...