Entrepreneurship

A Portuguese business team, comprising affiliates of Portugal's Timber and Furniture Industry Association (AIMMP), will visit Angola on 12-19 of the current month, in the ambit of re-launching this sector in this country.  

VCs and angels sent out a series of "look out!" warnings to their charges last week. Now we're starting to see slightly more positive takes from other investors to their startups: Something along the lines of "Look out! But take advantage of the openings". John Borthwick, who heads up the...  

The message the VCs gave their young startups? Get profitable now, or die. That's the harsh new reality for most Web 2.0 and other tech startups who've been ...  

In particular, the VCs were surprisingly positive about the prospects for very early-stage startups, which after all don't have to worry about paying ...  

Startups that don’t have revenues or a business model, like Seesmic or Twitter, are going to get squeezed big time in the next six months. Already we’ve seen how Seesmic responded to that coming squeeze yesterday. It got skinnier to make the squeeze easier to take. They will be joined over the...  

Welcome to the second edition of Startup Stories, a weekly collection of first-hand accounts of the real-life experiences of people pursuing their entrepreneurial dream.  

Here's an inventive business model: When you're not actually making money, try making it up.  

Lastly, many VCs said that for them to work with universities on a regular basis, the schools must foster an “ecosystem of entrepreneurship,” Holly said. ...  

What does the market and economic meltdown mean for startups? Jason Calacanis thinks it means Armageddon. Fred Wilson thinks it means Armageddon if you don't have strong VCs in your camp. I don't think it means much of anything. Hopefully you are building your business in a way that is...  

Welcome to the first edition of the Startup Stories blog carnival. No lists, no opinion pieces - just first-hand account of people leaving the entrepreneurial dream.  

Other than the availability of bigger boxes (or clear, plastic ones) it’s hard to point to big changes in the way we store our stuff. Shifts in data storage are similarly mundane. But like the physical storage industry, which has seen slight innovations in recent years, business-class data...  

In the knowledge era, the new generation of entrepreneurs who will create wealth on an unprecedented scale will those who are educated. They will constantly innovate  

Q: Do you have advice about the pros and cons of mortgaging your home to start a new business? What percent of your home's value should you leverage? If I take out a loan I will be at the full 80 percent of ...  

The Small Business Service Center of East Texas has a new home—Texas A&M University-Texarkana. The center, which helps budding entrepreneurs and current ...  

THE Rudd Government has backed small business over unions by moving to kill off a compulsory redundancy proposal that it warned could cost employers and ...