Entrepreneurship

Online search and information discovery are being transformed before our eyes. It’s no longer just Google, or Google and Bing, or even Google, Bing, and Twitter—there are big problems in technology and business to solve across all areas of social media search, real-time news and information, mobile search, user interfaces, search marketing, vertical search (travel, [...]  

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fifteen prominent venture capital investment firms met with fourteen Swedish startup companies this week on Silicon Valley’s legendary Sand Hill Road. Organized by the Invest in Sweden Agency (www.isa.se), the second annual conference introduced promising early-stage Swedish technology companies to venture capital firms and corporate investors in Silicon Valley. Participants at the invitation-only event...  

BOONE—There is no better time than now to become an entrepreneur, says Matthew Szulik, chairman of Raleigh-based Red Hat, an open source software company. Szulik spoke to students and others attending the Annual Carole Moore McLeod Entrepreneur Summit at Appalachian State University. “Why shouldn’t you start a company?  What’s the worst thing that can happen, fail?” [...]  

The Business Insider is hosting an event with Regus NYC to jumpstart the holiday season.  For two hours on Wednesday, November 18, we'll offer an open bar for a night of networking and celebration of entrepreneurship in NYC.  We've gotten RSVPs from top media executives at Mediaite, New York Post, NYT and more. If you're interested in attending, TBI has passes for 50 lucky readers to join our editors and NYC digital entrepreneurs, but spots...  

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- The Barbados government cannot afford to spend 20 percent of its gross domestic product on education, "just to help young people get better qualifications only to find a job", said Parliamentary Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner.  

Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Assintel, Italian association of ICT companies, under which both parties will be cooperating to enhance ties between the two countries in the information and communications technology field.  

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 ...  

When: 10am, Mon, 16 Nov '09 - 5pm, Sat, 21 Nov '09 Where: Warwick Business School & The Warwick Digital Lab Warwick Entrepreneurs will be hosting a week of events on campus from 16 - 21 November as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.  

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Center for Entrepreneurship (USCFE) announced the launch of its "Business Blunders and Lessons Learned" initiative as part of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's Global Entrepreneurship Week, 16 - 22 November 2009.  

The much awaited Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is nearing. The launch for the Singapore chapter will be graced by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan. There will also be a showcase of YES! Startups throughout the afternoon. Related posts:Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009Asia-Pacific Enterprise Challenge Related posts:Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009Asia-Pacific Enterprise Challenge  

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM is a not-for-profit academic research consortium that has as its goal making high quality international research data on entrepreneurial activity readily available to as wide an audience as possible.  GEM is the largest single study of entrepreneurial activity in the world.Initiated in 1999 with 10 countries, GEM 2008 conducted research [...]  

MANILA, Philippines – For the past six years, Steve Uy has been busy running his two home care facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. But Uy found time to attend BizTechDay, a two-day business strategy and technical conference held recently for ...  

University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company HeyStaks Technologies has been selected as one of three shortlisted finalists for the first, Europe-wide, UNICA Entrepreneurship Competition for Students and Young Researchers. HeyStaks , which is a ...  

The Small Business Administration is woefully behind in implementing congressionally mandated reforms to improve its response to large-scale disasters.  

Small businesses want health care reform but are unwilling to pay for it. How realistic is that?