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Attend LLC, and the steps getting there. An interview with Mike.
I interviewed Mike Bittle COO of Attend LLC, a start-up in cloud computing. He had great points that a lot of would-be entrepreneurs would find helpful.


Adeo Ressi: The Founder Institute
Adeo Ressi is the creator of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest idea-stage incubator.


Fog Of Darkness
A Group of American and Indian Graduates have electrified many remote area villages in India.


Personal MBA - Experience + Applied Knowledge To Create A Business
Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentia


The market knowledge you need hassle-free and affordably.
Critical info to make your venture a success are not easy and not cheap to find (leads, prices, competitors...). Maven.co and Mancx.com are democratizing business knowledge by enabling a virtual market of knowledge at affordable rates.


Quirky: Have an epiphany? Let's talk about it.
Claim: Inventing is an intrinsic human quality. Purpose: Make inventing more accessible...together. * Inspired By ( iB )- Anne-Laure Fayard's Amazon.com: Story of Rapid Prototyping


Insights from a Social Entrepreneur
Today, I met Veronika Scott, a Detroit-based entrepreneur who has created a sustainable business that employs the homeless, gives them employment, make them independent. So naturally, I pulled out the Interview kit. Here are the answers and insights.


web social enterprises
Let's not overlook social entrepreneurs! In my view, the key to any sustainable business is that it should address real social problems and this is what social entrepreneurs do.


Amazon.com: a story of rapid prototyping
How did Amazon.com get started? Was there a whole strategy and business plan? According to Tom Kelley in his article in Journal of Design Management, Amazon.com is a story of rapid prototyping.


Learning from those who've been there before
Mixergy is a site that compiles interviews with start-up founders. The aim is to help other entrepreneurs learn from what they've been through or things they'v accomplished.


Government Sponsored Crowdfunding
Using Crowdfunding gives entrepreneurs another avenue to raise money via the internet very much the same way OpenIDEO uses the crowd to "people design better, together for social good". Imagine people investing together for the better...


The New Enterprise Incentive Scheme
The Australian Government provides the unemployed with welfare payments and rent assistance for up to a year, a 6-8 week business training and development course, business plan assessment, and an opportunity to receive business mentoring and support.


Let ME own your business
Lets own a business! without the drama of owning it :)


Let's Create Awareness
Let's be proud of our community start up guys who can help this economy move forward!


Prototyping: a shorthand of entrepreneurship?
Prototyping is crucial to design and entrepreneurship is about designing a new business: isn't prototyping a key activity for entrepreneurs and maybe a metaphor of what entrepreneurs do.


Co-working and the positive impact on local economies
Today, co-working spaces are popping up all over the world, creating great environments for ideas to grow into projects and flourish!! The creation of these spaces might have a positive impact on local economies not to be underestimated!


i4c, in partnership with Galvanize and Touchpoint Partners- a platform for social enterprises
i4c is a campaign to support triple bottom line companies (which I am helping to build). We use a marketing platform- both physical and online- to promote social enterprises, and invest for an equity stake in select companies.


idigital-EU: collaboration to increase opportunities
In Catalonia (Spain), the Government has carried out a project related to ICT companies. It is not exactly about neither web companies nor start-ups, but I think that some aspects of the project could be useful for this challenge.


Capturing a social trend: Interview with Ivan Fatovic, founder of Modamily
Modamily is a New York-based private social network for people looking to co-parent a child within the US and Ivan Fatovic is its founder. Ivan noticed a social trend and decided to turn into a venture. Modamily was launched in Jan 2012.


CZ LOOK 8.3.2012 TechHUB Why Angel investors are not Democrats, but Experienced Powerful Partners !
CZ On 8.3.2012 was in TrecHUB couple presentations from Angel and Venture investors. I will try to use parts of this presentations to demonstrate then , Angel investors are not Democrats, but Experienced Powerful Partners.


Startup eXchange Program
is providing fledgling companies not only with the opportunity to test their ideas in foreign markets, but to dig deep into the knowledge and experience that only local incubators and culture can provide.