Newsroom: National News Archive 2004

November 28 - December 4 

Google proud of auction-style IPO
Economic Times - New Delhi,India
SAN FRANCISCO... "We're very proud of it," Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt said at an event hosted by BizWorld, a programme that teaches entrepreneurship to schoolchildren... <MORE>

More firms go it alone
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA
More than 17.6 million Americans work for -- and by -- themselves according to a new Census Bureau report that found the number of small firms without employees jumped 3.9 percent...  <MORE>

Venture capital fundraising up in US and Europe
Reuters - NY,USA
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) - US and European venture capital funds raised more money in the third quarter than they did a year earlier, as the venture ... <MORE>

Training Program Provides New Skills to Middle Eastern...
Whitehouse.gov (press release) - USA
... The Middle East Entrepreneurship Training Program, a project of the US Government's Middle East Partnership Initiative, is sponsoring this training program in... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship at Avon High
Avon Sentinel - Avon,IL
...That's right! Avon high school's entrepreneurship class, operating under the name, "Designer's Edge", is open for business and ready to serve you... <MORE>

MIT Looks into the Future of Competition with Leading Entrepreneurs...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA
... Other campus organizations including MIT Global TIES, the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, TechLink, the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and the Deshpande... <MORE>

Women Lead the Startup Stats 
Businessweek - USA
Female entrepreneurs may once have lagged behind their male counterparts, but now they're making up for lost time. Business ownership among women in general is growing at nearly twice the rate... <MORE>

InvestMidwest planners hope bigger is better for 2005 event
The Business Journal - Kansas City, MO
The annual coming-out party for emerging companies is getting bigger. The InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum wants to showcase about 30 companies... <MORE>

Five finalists named in Olin Cup entrepreneurship competition
News from Washington University in St. Louis (press release) - Saint Louis,Washington
The winners of the 2004 Olin Cup Entrepreneur Competition will be announced Dec. 2 from a pool of five finalists chosen Oct. 29... <MORE>

A Research Program on the Interplay Between Entrepreneurial Activity and Tax Policy
Heritage.org - Washington,DC
... consumers. Historical data on new-business formation suggests that more and more business owners understand this concept quite well... 
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Local business leaders attend Entrepreneurship Academy
Algona Upper Des Moines - Algona,IA
In October, several area business leaders attended the Iowa Community Entrepreneurship Academy in Fairfield, Iowa. Fairfield was ... <MORE>

December 5-11

Big Biz on Campus
Entrepreneur Magazine
...Evidently, there's big business in serving not only current college students, but prospective ones as well. "The college space has always been hot," says Sozzi... <MORE>

Study concludes more work needed on Louisville entrepreneurship
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY
The 2005 State of Entrepreneurship Report is an update to a 1996 report critiquing the city's entrepreneurial climate... <MORE>

Cross-border Capitalism
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
Firms are reaching across national borders by the dozens to list on Nasdaq. That underscores not only the globalization of finance but, far more important for entrepreneurs, points to an unprecedented...
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Venture capital results vary widely
Pioneer Press (subscription) - St. Paul,MN
The bottom half of US venture capital funds started from 1990 to 2003 lost money on average, according to research by Boston-based Cambridge Associates LLC, an... <MORE>

WSU perfect for entrepreneurship center
The Wichita Eagle - Wichita,KS
...week's Wichita Area Economic Outlook Conference learned that Wichita State University would be the home of the new Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship, it was... <MORE>

Sowing jobs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI
To plant the seeds of economic rebirth in Milwaukee's urban core... Milwaukee in the past two years has moved to the forefront in accepting a new paradigm of market-driven urban change... <MORE>

Eighth annual entrepreneurship conference
Wharton Journal - Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,USA
By Phil Benson & Petros Sakkis, WG'05. The 8th Annual Entrepreneurship Conference broke all previous attendance records with over 500 participants... <MORE>

Talk of a Bubble as Venture Capitalists Flock to China
New York Times - New York,NY
Lately, a joke has been making the rounds among Silicon Valley venture capitalists... you're far more likely to run into a colleague at a hotel bar in Beijing or Shanghai than at a local haunt in... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship is on the rise, study finds
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ
...The self-employed account for 9.8 percent of the nation's work force, according to the report, which found entrepreneurship on the rise across a wide... <MORE>

Jack Faris: Entrepreneurship: More than Fame and Money
Wisbusiness.com - Madison,WI
... What did Mary Kay do? Virtually everyone knows that these dreamers turned their ideas into realities through good, old-fashioned entrepreneurship... <MORE>

Investors seek high-growth companies
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka,KS
High-growth companies are invited to present their business plans to venture capitalists, angel investors and investment bankers in the...
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Entrepreneurship project at UMC gets Kauffman grant
Jefferson City News Tribune - Jefferson City,MO
... of Kansas City awarded a $593,792 grant to the University of Missouri-Columbia in support of the "Advancing Academic Research on Entrepreneurship" project... <MORE>

December 12-18

California Program Promotes Entrepreneurship in Mideast, North Africa
Voice of America - Washington,DC
... "You learn a lot from such a culture," she explains. "I believe that part of the success of the Lebanese people in entrepreneurship or in other areas is based ... <MORE>

SBE Council Offers Small Business View for President's Economic Conference
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
/PRNewswire/ -- The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) released a report today highlighting issues of importance to entrepreneurs and... <MORE>

Venture Capital Competition to Heat Up in 2005
mysan.de - Germany
WASHINGTON -- The beginning of a new business cycle and a high demand for participation in the venture capital asset class will foster a strong competitive environment among VCs <MORE>

State seeks angels to give start-ups wings
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI
... on their investment but generally are more willing to take risks and more patient than venture capitalists, Susan Preston of the Kauffman Foundation, an angel ... <MORE>

Report marks city's record in entrepreneurship
MSNBC - USA
...report: The Louisville region is continuing to make a name for itself as a place where entrepreneurship is fostered. In fact... <MORE>

Venture-Capital Activity Focused on Rebuilding in 2004...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA
... is expected to complete the year on a positive note, based on investments recorded through the end of the third quarter by the Venture Capital Report compiled... <MORE>

SNC students test business ideas on Incline community
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Incline Village,NV
The two Sierra Nevada College students will join 63 other entrepreneurship students and potential business owners in presenting their ideas to the Incline ... <MORE>

Venture capital goes green
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN
... "This is a sector that, if it isn't already exploding, it's about to explode," said Daryl Erdman, senior director of Aavin Venture Capital of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ... <MORE>

BBOC becomes entrepreneurship playground
Silver Chips Online - Silver Spring,MD
Now a student-run operation, the school store offers students taking entrepreneurship classes the opportunity to gain first-hand business experience... <MORE>

Olin Cup entrepreneurship contest winners named; Luminomics is 1st
Washington University Record - St. Louis,MO
In this year's Olin Cup entrepreneurship competition, the Olin School of Business has awarded a total of $70,000 in seed investment capital to two startup businesses...  <MORE>

Adams principal investigator in entrepreneurship, agribusiness...
The Times and Democrat - Orangeburg,SC
... at South Carolina State University, is the principal investigator for two grants totaling $204,708 to nurture and advance entrepreneurship and agribusiness... <MORE>

December 19-31

New BlueSaver plan can be used with health savings account
Kansas City Star - Kansas City, MO (subscription)
The trend toward consumer-driven health plans is gaining traction in Kansas City. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is teaming up with the Wells Fargo financial services company to launch BlueSaver, a high-deductible health plan that can be used with a health savings account.

NCSU to offer biotechnology-pharmacology focus for MBA program
Raleigh Triangle Business Journal - Raleigh, NC
The curriculum includes the MBA program's regular four-course concentration in one of its traditional areas - entrepreneurship, finance, information technology, marketing, or supply chain management... <MORE>

A Dorm for Dreamers and Doers
BusinessWeek - New York, NY
... In 2001, a group of undergrads pitched the idea of a living space where they could live and breathe entrepreneurship 24/7, and the higher-ups gave it the green... <MORE>

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