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VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits: Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Entrepreneur Gains Efficiencies, Grows Business With New Operating System: After years of trying to balance work and motherhood, Kari Smith left her corporate job behind and turned her passion for cake decorating into her own small business. Within ten years, her entrepreneurial skills have grown her business into Magical Moments and Elite Party Rentals, a full-fledged wedding planning and...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Management, Software; Case studies 2008-04-01
businessfirst: Ideas to help small companies retain their successful entrepreneurial spirit: Innovation and enterprise is almost universally associated with small businesses. Typically, 95% of all innovations occur in businesses with less than 100 employees. When companies grow past this point the innovation is stifled by processes and bureaucracy.Download this white paper to read case studies of how larger organisations have rekindled...; Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers 2008-02-26
Managed Hosting Provider Powers Extreme Growth and Virtualization With Hyperic: Launched in February, 2006 as a venture company of Rackspace Managed Hosting, Mosso was started by two entrepreneurial employees, Jonathan Bryce and Todd Morey. Simplifying complex technology to bring reliable, scalable service to web application developers is Mosso's mission. Enterprise systems management software that keeps pace with their always-on, always-changing...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Team, Managed Hosting, Web Application, Entrepreneurship, Virtualization, Team Management, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Management, Hardware, Storage; Case studies 2007-11-02
Steve Jobs on 'entrepreneurial education,' circa 1995: Steve Job’s reported “lambast” of teacher unions last week during an “education reform conference” does not reflect a new stance for Jobs. Seventeen years prior, Jobs put forth a similar educational philosophy for an Oral History Interview at the Smithsonian Institution. Although Jobs’ remarks last week were summarized...; Tags: Culture, Enterprise, Government, Local; Blog posts 2007-02-21

U.S.-Lebanon Partnership Fund: Corporate America Plans to Help Rebuild Lebanon: The presenter of this webcast reinforces the benefits business leaders can bring to rebuilding efforts for Lebanon by offering financial assets and entrepreneurial capability to make a difference.; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Lebanon, Partnership, Cisco Systems Inc., Entrepreneurship, Management; Webcasts 2006-09-27
IT buyers are becoming IT sellers: Yesterday, I posted news about SOA Software buying a company's internally built mainframe CICS-to-Web-services platform to offer on a commercial basis to the broader market. SOA Software had announced that it was acquiring Merrill Lynch's X4ML Mainframe Web services platform, as well as the people that built and maintain the...; Tags: entrepreneurial, information technology; Blog posts 2005-12-06
Entrepreneurial Founder Effects in the Growth of Regional Clusters: How Early Success Is a Key Determinant: This paper studies in great detail the growth of the wireless communication cluster in Northern Denmark. Unlike the dominant theories, the paper argues that initial success of the first firms are the main driving force behind the generation of new firms that eventually lead to the formation of clusters. The...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Success, Founder, Entrepreneurship, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Management; White papers 2005-11-30
Creating and Operating a Business Plan Competition: There are well over 80 business plan competitions world wide and the number of competitions continues to grow. Most competitions are organized for graduate or undergraduate students at institutions of higher education and operated by a department within that institution. The force behind the popularity of these competitions is simple...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Competition, University Of California, Entrepreneurship, Management; White papers 2005-11-10
Measuring the Value of CRM: In the past, small businesses have trembled in the face of Customer Relationship Management CRM. Presented by powerhouse vendors like SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft, customer relationship management software has seemed beyond the reach of most entrepreneurial ventures. But times are changing. As the price of technology drops, new CRM vendors...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Jupitermedia Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management; White papers 2004-03-15
Driving Entrepreneurial Behavior at Deutsche Bahn: Deutsche Bahn is one of the world's largest transportation companies. In the late 90s, it set a goal to become the leading transport company in Europe. This, they recognized, meant rapidly becoming a lean, commercially focused operation, equipped at all levels to succeed in a competitive environment. The first step...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Accenture Ltd., Deutsche Bahn, Transportation, Entrepreneurship, Team Management, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Innovent Case Study: TradeHarbor: On August 3, 2004, TradeHarbor, a leading provider of voice authentication services, announced that Innovent, an entrepreneurial innovation unit within Nokia, had invested in the early-stage company and signed an agreement to collaborate in mapping the emerging market for voice authentication and its implications for mobility. Exploring the voice authentication...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Nokia Corp., TradeHarbor, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Accounting, Security, Management, Finance; Case studies
Creating and Justifying Intellectual Capital Value: Entrepreneurial Networking for Business Development on the WAP Protocol: The Telecom firm was established in 1990 in the Business & Science Park, the industry park opposite the campus. This case study of entrepreneurial networking using the WAP protocol - 'the WAP Project' - is part of a larger University-Industry-Interaction programme UII of the University of Twente in the Netherlands,...; Tags: Entrepreneurial, Business Development, WAP, Entrepreneurship, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Case studies

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In America money is life: In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...; Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen; Discussion threads 2008-07-17
Search-ability in Flash: Last night Adobe announced that we've given a special version of the Flash Player to Google and Yahoo that will more accurately let them crawl through Flash content. Even though Google has been indexing .SWF files for a while and even been able to pull out some text, they haven't...; Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Search Engine, Flash, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech: The kind souls at LimeLeap, a technology services company that has donned a green mantle as its new business mantra, have taken an item off my to-do list, which was to follow up on a green business roundtable that they hosted in Washington last month. As I...; Tags: Green Technology, Government, Congressman, Entrepreneurship, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-10
Health care debate not really about costs: Some national health debates are about costs. The debate now beginning in Australia, a plan to push more primary care to nurses and others, is about costs. The U.S. debate is not about costs. It's about who bears those costs. It's about what we...; Tags: Health Care, Small Business, Tahmincioglu, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-06-10
What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Archiect?: What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Archiect?irrelevantFor all the harping about the code license, there have been virtually no, esp. on purpose, issues arise to harm a company or individual from Microsoft's code licensing. It is safer overall than GPL licensed code. The problem with Linux open...; Tags: Research & Development, Operating systems, software, Booch, copyright-holder, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, developer; Discussion threads 2008-05-27
Leaving Microsoft: Leaving MicrosoftGood Luck!I wish you a lot of luck in your new endeavors!Keep us posted!I don't buy itJoining a small startup to do business in Africa?..I thought a small startup is cash strapped and eager to make a quick buck rather than do philantrophic work.I think that is more than...; Tags: LEAVING Microsoft, small business seminar, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-27
What Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-off means for enterprises: Now that Yahoo gets to remain a stand-alone company for a few more months, you may think that a battle royale between Microsoft and Google over the online advertising and social networking/communications services future has little bearing on enterprises. But you'd be wrong. Here are seven reasons...; Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, Channel Management, Smb/Sme, Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Sales, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-04