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Newsroom: National News Archive 2005
January
2-8
Business
and Entrepreneurship Institute open at Apple Valley...
Mendota Heights Sun Current - Mendota Heights,MN
...Mary's University has formed the Business and Entrepreneurship
Institute at the former Apple Valley City Hall. The Institute
will... <MORE>
Technology
Entrepreneurship Program
University at Buffalo Reporter - Buffalo,NY
The School of Management has launched a new Technology
Entrepreneurship Program designed to facilitate understanding of the
important business aspects in the ... <MORE>
Group
helps more be touched by an angel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee, WI
Angels - who put their own money into fledgling companies and help
them make vital business connections - now have their own Wisconsin
network to get established... <MORE>
Oregon
jobs bouncing back
OregonLive.com - Portland, OR
... Ralph Shaw, president of Portland-based Shaw Management and the
chairman of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors, sounded
more bearish than the consensus... <MORE>
Earning
Your Wings
INC.com - USA
Angel investors are getting tougher. To land seed money, you
should, too... You've probably heard the rumors: Angel investors
aren't as angelic as they used to be. Such investors, generally...
<MORE>
Venture
capital group upbeat on start-ups in 2005
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL
The National Venture Capital Association is predicting 2005 will
bring a strong return of investment in start-up companies. The...
<MORE>
Venture
funding gains 7%
Boston Globe - Boston, MA
Venture capital financing climbed 7 percent nationally last year, as
investors shook off three years worth of jitters and funneled
capital to new technology... <MORE>
Funding
social entrepreneurship
OnPhilanthropy.com - New York, NY
In October, three entrepreneurs received a total of $200,000 in
start up funding from what may seem like an unlikely source... <MORE>
Entrepreneur
Launches "Self Employment for Bohemians" Blog
PRWeb
Drawing on two decades of successful self employment, cartoonist and
businessman Steve Lafler has launched a web blog entitled "Self
Employment for Bohemians"... <MORE>
New
Help for the Black Entrepreneur
New York Times - New York, NY (subscription)
At
first blush, the figures are bleak. African-Americans account for 12
percent of the nation's population, but own only 4 percent of the
small businesses. And the revenues of their businesses are on
average less than one-tenth those of nonminority companies,
according to the Census Bureau... <MORE>
January
9-15
Experts
tout education as key to entrepreneurship
Anderson Independent Mail (subscription) - Anderson,SC
By WENDY WEINHOLD. GREENVILLE -- Clemson University business
advocates stressed education at a quarterly discussion with
Upstate... <MORE>
NFIB
Awards Leeds' Professor and Ph.D. Students for Excellence in
Entrepreneurship Research
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
...announced today that Tom Dean, Associate Professor... along with
Ph.D. students of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Larry Plummer and
Joy Godesiabois, were honored with the 2004 National... <MORE>
Schools
Offer Real Venture Capital Lessons
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO
Venture capital is agony and ecstasy, bust and boom, the stress of
gambling and the thrill of a front-row view on the latest
technologies... <MORE>
Female
Entrepreneurship Faces Stiff Headwinds, According to New Book
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA
Nearly six out of every ten female teenagers and four out of ten
female adults would like to start their own small business. They
also feel equally strongly about... <MORE>
vFinance
Establishes The Center for Innovative Entrepreneurship
dBusinessNews New York (press release) - New York,NY
...created CIE in response to the challenges faced by workers having
to compete for skilled jobs in a global economy. CIE's mission is to
support both the public and private sectors... <MORE>
InvestMidwest
Launches Application Period for Midwest’s Premier Venture Capital
Event
Press Release - USA
InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum today called on high-growth
companies throughout America’s heartland to apply to present their
business plans to some of the nation’s premier venture
capitalists, angel investors and investment bankers... <MORE>
Deadline for presenter application: Jan. 28 - Apply
Online
Professor
gets Kauffman medal for entrepreneurship research
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded the first Ewing
Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in
Entrepreneurship to Scott Stern, a... <MORE>
Spurring
minority firms: Milwaukee in line for entrepreneurship Initiative
MSNBC - USA
... financial assistance and business mentoring services to minority
entrepreneurs, said Daryl Williams, director of minority
entrepreneurship initiatives at the ... <MORE>
His
Own Boss
Kokomo Tribune - Kokomo,IN
The United States has been christened the land of opportunity, and
some experts believe Indiana is leading the pack. Scot Reeder and
his wife, Pam, of Tipton own three businesses... <MORE>
Keeping
tabs of new businesses
Orlando Sentinel (subscription) - Orlando,FL
From tree cutters to stock brokers and roofers to doctors,
entrepreneurs of all stripes show up on Market Force Corp.'s radar.
Tracking small business has become big business... <MORE>
Entrepreneurship
Emphasized at Inaugural Maryland State IT Procurement Summit
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... Attendees learned first-hand that the state of MD has put a high
priority on entrepreneurship to ensure that smaller IT businesses
and Minority Business... <MORE>
Minority
businesses hope Bush will address issues such as insurance,
financing
Kansas City Business Journal - Kansas City, MO
The official start of President Bush's second term is nearly two
weeks away, but area minority business leaders already are looking
to the new administration for serious action on crucial issues...
<MORE>
Feldman:
So you want to go into business for yourself?
Canton Journal - Needham,MA
...The first choice you will need to make is the legal form in which
you will operate as a business. Among the choices are an
unincorporated sole proprietorship, a regular corporation... <MORE>
Start-Ups,
Students Connect Through Internship Program
Triangle Tech Journal (press release) - Research Triangle Park,NC
...The industry/university internship was subsidized by the Kansas
City-based Kauffman Foundation and drew on assistance from area
entrepreneurial development... <MORE>
Great
Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest Winners Revealed...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
...is a nonprofit, educational program designed to accelerate the
formation of high-growth companies throughout Michigan and will
award more than $30,000... <MORE>
What's
new? Not enough
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI
Ten years ago, Wisconsin ranked near the bottom of all 50 states in
new-business formation, a key measure of entrepreneurial activity...
<MORE>
Group
fosters women's entrepreneurship
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA
...The classes are presented in English and Spanish for women and
men interested in entrepreneurship, business counseling, networking
and obtaining a small... <MORE>
January
16-22
The
Definitive Study of Entrepreneurship in 2004...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
...73 million people across the globe are either nascent
entrepreneurs, or own or manage a young business, according to the
sixth annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor... <MORE>
New
Intellectual Property and Business Formation Clinic to offer a
variety of legal services...
Washington University in St. Louis (press release) - Saint Louis,
MO
... to guiding inventors as they obtain patents, students in the
Washington University School of Law's new Intellectual Property and
Business Formation Legal Clinic... <MORE>
ISU
holds open house for new business center
Radio Iowa - Des Moines,IA
Iowa State University's hosting open house information sessions at
its new "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Learning
Community" now through the middle of next... <MORE>
Pennsylvanian
Wins “Best Doctoral Paper” Award
US Small Business Administration (press release)
Brian Wu Of The Wharton School Of The University Of Pennsylvania
Submits Paper On Entrepreneurial Risk and Market Entry... <MORE>
SEC
official will lead Center for Venture Education
The Kansas City Business Journal - Kansas City, MO
Patrick Von Bargen will take over as CEO for the center on Feb. 28,
spokeswoman Michele Freyder said... <MORE>
Venture
Capital Returns Showed Continued Improvement in Q3 2004
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
Venture capital performance showed continued positive growth at the
close of the third quarter of 2004, posting double-digit... <MORE>
The
new entrepreneurs: Americans over 50
USA Today - USA
SAN FRANCISCO -- Entrepreneurship, waning in recent years, is
getting a big boost from an unlikely source: older Americans
starting companies... <MORE>
What
is Entrepreneurship?
Always On - USA
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating or seizing an
opportunity, and pursuing it regardless of the resources currently
controlled... <MORE>
Midwest
angel investment in life sciences on the rise
WTN News - Madison,WI
... According to an October 2002 report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation titled "Business Angel Investing Groups Growing in
North America," most members... <MORE>
College
makes major change to survive
News 14 Charlotte - Charlotte,NC
Effective fall 2005, Barber Scotia College will make
entrepreneurship and business-related programs its exclusive focus,
college officials announced Monday... <MORE>
Incubator
helps house student-run businesses
The Daily Northwestern - USA
...The center acts as a catalyst for the formation of technological
... and apply to the program by submitting a business proposal for
... "We want to see new ideas built... <MORE>
MCC
targeting entrepreneurs
Southwest Nebraska News - NE
...business-planning course offered in cooperation with Nebraska
EDGE (Enhancing, Developing, and Growing Entrepreneurs) and the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation... <MORE>
Venture
Capital: Six experts look into crystal ball for 2005
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA
Apple... Krispy Kreme... Those are some of the topics that came up
when the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked six Seattle-area venture
capitalists to gaze into their crystal balls for 2005... <MORE>
Entrepreneurial
community to have twice the students
Ames Tribune - Ames,IA
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Learning Community will move
from its home on the fifth floor of the newly renovated Buchanan
Hall to the third floor, an... <MORE>
Focus:
ND entrepreneurship
Bismarck Tribune - Bismarck,ND
An objective has come out of this year's Marketplace event to
increase entrepreneurship in ND... the event's organizers have been
kind enough to come up with a blueprint on how that might be done...
<MORE>
January
23-29
US
entrepreneurship rate falls; most self-funded
St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO
The percentage of adult Americans involved in starting a business or
running a new business fell slightly last year to 11.3 percent,
according to an annual study... <MORE>
Nuts
and bolts of entrepreneurship
CNET News.com - USA
... also focus on less dramatic aspects of running a company,
according to seasoned entrepreneurs who spoke at the 8th Annual
Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference... <MORE>
Firms
woo venture capital
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL
By Marcia Heroux Pounds. Bioscience is the draw, but technology
still dominates the 2005 Florida Venture Capital Conference
beginning this week in Orlando... <MORE>
Age,
Wisdom, and the Entrepreneur
BusinessWeek - USA
... Today, students taking entrepreneurship courses are encouraged
by many of those same academics to think in terms of launching their
own businesses while still ... <MORE>
NC
venture capital deals drop in 2004
Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte,NC
John Glushiki, a partner at Durham-based Intersouth Partners, one of
the largest venture capital firms in North Carolina, says venture
capitalists are becoming... <MORE>
He
teaches entrepreneurship to engineers
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ
Thomas Duening thinks engineers can learn to be entrepreneurs. It
just depends on your definition of entrepreneur. "It comes down
to two things, really, and your engineers can appreciate this...
<MORE>
Kopelman
offers insights on entrepreneurship
Wharton Journal - Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
"Look for simple solutions to urgent and pervasive
problems" Josh Kopelman (W '93) preached this mantra to
aspiring entrepreneurs during the Wharton... <MORE>
Companies
strive to make list of inner city successes
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI
... The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a top policy center on the
American entrepreneurial phenomenon, has teamed up with the National
Urban League to bankroll ... <MORE>
US
venture capital invested up 8% in 2004 to $20.4 bln
CBS MarketWatch - USA
US venture capital invested rose 8 percent in 2004 to $20.4 billion,
according to survey by Ernst & Young and VentureOne... <MORE>
Older
Americans beefing up ranks of self-employed
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ
Entrepreneurship, waning in recent years, is getting a big boost
from an unlikely source: older Americans starting companies... <MORE>
Belmont
stores sell students on entrepreneurship
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN
Feedback is the newest of three student-run retail stores at the
university, which has made entrepreneurship a major focus... <MORE>
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