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Newsroom: National News Archive
January
30 - February 5
FastTrac
Grads Gain Entrepreneurial Skills, Connections
WVNS-TV - Ghent,WV
FastTrac was developed as a comprehensive entrepreneurship education
program by the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo ... <MORE>
Getting
Schooled in Innovation
Business Week - USA
Innovation by its very nature requires leaps of faith, attempts to
do what
hasn't been tried before, and perhaps most important of all, an
understanding of consumer culture. So where should CEOs and middle
managers go to learn... to design schools... <MORE>
Economic-development
talks focus on rural areas
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA
...But "entrepreneurship" was the buzzword of the day
among featured speakers and panel discussions Wednesday. "In
the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, 80 percent of them
created their... <MORE>
Time
off from entrepreneurship
USA Today - USA
Women and entrepreneurship: it can be a complicated mix... "I
didn't fully understand it at the time, but what I did was take a
sabbatical from entrepreneurship... <MORE>
Venture
capital stays out of Ohio
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH
...Bob Taft's ambitious program to make Ohio a hotbed of high
technology, the Buckeye State has fallen farther behind in the
national chase for venture capital... <MORE>
Couple
donates $1.5 million for ISU entrepreneurship program
KWQC-TV - Davenport,IA
AMES, Iowa A one and one-half (m) million dollar gift will establish
an entrepreneurship program for students in the College of
Agriculture at Iowa State... <MORE>
Small
businesses could play big role in Social Security debate
KING5.com (subscription) - Seattle,WA
... Perhaps high business costs and the Gregoire proposal have
something to do with Washington's No. 36 ranking in the formation of
new small businesses... <MORE>
Program
to spark minority startups begins this year
Sacramento Business Journal - Sacramento,CA
A new national program aims to initiate minority business ownership
in urban areas. The Urban Entrepreneur Partnership is led by the
National Urban League and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation...
<MORE>
Venture
capital spigot running
MSNBC - USA
...What it means to local business owners is that venture capital is
available to entrepreneurs with great ideas backed by solid business
plans... <MORE>
SBA
Releases Research Publications 2004 Catalog
The catalog... lists all the research reports published in 2004.
This publication gives a brief summary of all the economic research
reports that were produced by Advocacy on a variety of topics...
<MORE>
Venture
Capital: Venture capitalists who miss and tell
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA
Problem is, those deals represent only a tiny fraction of the
venture capital landscape. ... No other venture capital firm wanted
to commit to the project... <MORE>
UND
business center preparing for business
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND
The $4 million center will serve as an entrepreneurship hub and
startup business incubator. The 19 businesses at the start will
employ as many as 60 people... <MORE>
Leaders
discuss local economy
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA
The "complex web of regulations" imposed on proposed
developments along the Central Coast makes it near-impossible for
someone working alone to be successful... <MORE>
US
venture capital firms invest USD 21 bn in start-up comps
New Kerala - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
Houston: US Venture capital (VC) firms have invested USD 21 billion
in the start-up and emerging companies in 2004, says the
quarterly... <MORE>
February
6 - 12
American
Indian, Corporate, Federal Leaders Pledge Commitment to Native
Enterprise Development...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC
... youth to a positive business environment, this unique program is
designed to inspire and motivate young people to continue exploring
entrepreneurship and the... <MORE>
WCU's
entrepreneurship program a ‘national model'
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC
But that was before they met Jim and JoAnn Carland, directors of the
Western Carolina University's master of entrepreneurship program,
which was recently... <MORE>
Bills
would benefit small businesses
Portland Press Herald - Portland,ME
... Creating an atmosphere that's friendly toward small businesses
would include an "entrepreneurship curriculum" that would
provide lessons on business creation... <MORE>
Innovation,
entrepreneurship and the future of St. Louis' economy...
Washington University in St. Louis (press release) - Saint
Louis,MO
...as well as the nation hinges on successful innovation and
entrepreneurship -- fueling the growth of small and large
businesses... <MORE>
Town
Meetings on Patent System Reform
American Intellectual Property Law Association - Arlington, VA
...the National Academies Board on Science Technology and Economics
(STEP) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued reports with
recommendations on modernizing U.S. Patent Law. The AIPLA thoroughly
reviewed both reports and prepared detailed responses to each...
<MORE>
Commercial
Development and Entrepreneurship
UPENN Almanac - Pennsylvania, USA
The Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) announced the formation of
two new business units: Commercial Development and
Entrepreneurship... <MORE>
SC
coalition seeks to help small businesses
Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte,NC
The SC Coalition for Small Business and Entrepreneurship has been
launched to support entrepreneurs, startups and other small firms in
the Palmetto State... <MORE>
Ringmaster
of the venture capital playground
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL
Timothy C. Draper approaches his work with fun twists, but he has
serious tips for the hopeful entrepreneurs at the Florida Venture
Forum... <MORE>
Entrepreneurship:
Follow the Golden Rule and success will follow
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA
...The simple fact is, though business is filled with metaphors of
war and competitive sports, the most successful business people I
know are respectful of their customers, vendors... <MORE>
SBA
office retools Web site to make finding data easier
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL
...The site (www.sba.gov/advo) now has menus and search features to
guide users and also provides economic profiles of each state,
demographics... <MORE>
iVivity
Voted ''Breakthrough Technology'' Award at Georgia Technology
Summit...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA
...leading technology provider of chip, board and integrated
software solutions for the storage networking systems market, was
voted as the company with the leading "Breakthrough
Technology" from... <MORE>
Venture
capital search brings healthy results
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN
... Banks avoid businesses in their first couple of years because
they are too risky, and most venture capital firms want to make
bigger investments than are... <MORE>
February
13 - 19
Developing
Entrepreneurial Talent in the T-bird Community
Das Tor - Glendale,AZ,USA
... Do you have a brilliant business idea you want to develop? Are
you an experienced entrepreneur willing to support others on the
road to entrepreneurship? <MORE>
Symposium
emphasizes importance of regional 'innovation economy'
The Athens News - Athens,OH,USA
... and local officials met at the OU Innovation Center last
Thursday in a panel discussion to explore the need for an
"innovation economy" in southeastern Ohio... <MORE>
IBM
Pledges 500 US Patents To Open Source
DirectionsMag.com - Glencoe,IL,USA
... Unlike the preceding Industrial Economy, the Innovation
Economy requires that intellectual property be deployed for more
than just providing the owner with... <MORE>
Babson's
New Research Center Helps Drive Corporate Innovation
AScribe - USA
ICE will draw on the expertise of Babson's distinguished
Entrepreneurship faculty, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation
experts, and experienced ... <MORE>
The
comeback CEO
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... magnitude," he says. End trim "We have an
opportunity to have an innovation economy, and it's not being
nurtured," he says. <MORE>
An
eye for innovation
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas
City,MO,USA
Evans spoke at a luncheon given by the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation, which also helped sponsor last year's four-part PBS
series based on Evans' book ... <MORE>
Bouncing
back
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Through many conversations over the past year, Walshok said,
"What we've heard was that in an innovation economy, which is
what we have here in San Diego ... <MORE>
Kauffman
Foundation in showbiz
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas
City,MO
...philanthropic organization has grasped an opportunity to take its
entrepreneurial message to the masses. It's involved in a TV show in
preproduction for cable's Lifetime channel... <MORE>
New
grad class for the aspiring 'Apprentice'
Arizona Daily Wildcat - Tucson,AZ
... Levine said she received a grant of $3,500 from the Kauffman
Foundation through the UA McGuire Entrepreneurial program because
her idea shared the foundation's... <MORE>
Classroom
reality
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL
Business school professors say "The Apprentice" is
providing a window into corporate America. The show's doing what the
textbooks can't... <MORE>
Black
women turning to entrepreneurship
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ
... growth of Arizona businesses owned by Black women through 2004,
but area leaders say a steady number of African-American women are
turning to entrepreneurship... <MORE>
Coalition
continues working toward entrepreneurial conference
The Marshall Democrat-News - Marshall,MO
... were saying that it should have been held at a time that was
more accessible for people that are working and actually looking to
get into entrepreneurship... <MORE>
Incentives
for businesses not right approach
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ
One of the difficulties with government economic incentives
programs for businesses — other than the fact that they use
taxpayer money to promote private interests — is that they often
lack flexibility... <MORE>
February
20 - 26
Dynamics
of Minority-Owned Employer Establishments 1997-2001
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
... The report Dynamics of Minority-Owned Employer Establishments,
1997-2001, released at The Institute for Entrepreneurship,
Leadership, and Innovation at the ... <MORE>
Coming
on Strong at Babson
BusinessWeek - USA
Q: Babson is consistently ranked among the top five for
entrepreneurship. Do a lot of career-changers come to Babson for the
entrepreneurship program? A: Yes... <MORE>
For
Entrepreneurs, a Harder World
BusinessWeek - USA
Over the years, the question has been raised at conferences of
would-be entrepreneurs, in B-school entrepreneurship classes, and by
the business media... <MORE>
REAL
world experience: TK Stone students spend day formulating
Elizabethtown News Enterprise -
Elizabethtown,KY,USA
... chance to learn what it would take to turn those opportunities
into realities Tuesday during a business simulation called Rural
Entrepreneurship through Action ... <MORE>
Purdue
Receives National Award For Engineering Program
Inside INdiana Business - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... leaders with the 2005 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in
Engineering ... Edward J. Coyle, director of EPICS entrepreneurship
education ... <MORE>
Grant
to spark entrepreneurship at local schools
White Lake Beacon - Whitehall,MI
... economic background. The grantees are also charged with
developing a post secondary entrepreneurship certificate. Gov.
Granholm ... <MORE>
Expanding
Texas Entrepreneurship to be Focus of March 29 Austin Summit
AgNews - TX
AUSTIN -- Helping the Texas economy grow through business
entrepreneurship will be the theme of a day-long summit on March 29
at the Austin Marriott at the ... <MORE>
Maine
SBDC Director Voices Concern in Congress
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME
... before the US Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Committee, chaired by ... for termination such as BusinessLINC,
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR... <MORE>
The
hopeful return of venture capital
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH
... Venture capital and angel, or early stage investments, are
crucial in sustaining economic growth, especially in hotbed areas of
entrepreneurial activity such... <MORE>
Rice
University Business Plan Competition Announces New $100,000
Investment Prize...
AScribe - USA
... The annual competition for MBA and graduate students is hosted
by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship (Rice
Alliance) and the Jesse H. Jones... <MORE>
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