Posts about Entrepreneurs as of February 6, 2009

This is the second article in a series by my good friend and attorney colleague, Steven A. O’Rourke http://www.calcorplaw.com. He is a very sharp corporate and business lawyer and he is a guy that other attorneys go to when they want to debate the law. But he is also a guy that entrepreneurs and business owners should

Smoking ban advances (Times-Dispatch) The Republican-controlled House of Delegates — the last barrier to a further clampdown on smoking in public — … it is to get rid of them. How You Can Leverage a Layoff (Entrepreneur) The transition from worker

Chris Alden, Michael Birch, Reid Hoffman and Esther Dyson at Zeitgeist ‘07Being an entrepreneur can be challenging enough: … is more art than science. But being an entrepreneur in the social networking space brings a completely different set of challenges. Rather than the Facebooks and Myspaces, we’ve invited entrepreneurs

The journey of President Barrack Obama to the White House was not a day’s work as it requires a lot of planning, fund raising, managing, … of the attendees can look forward to as he’ll be joined by media owners, educators, entrepreneurs, lawyers

Hi, I just got back from a TechAviv meetup of founders and investors at the IDC in Herzliya. Hillel and I were invited as bloggers to cover a little about the event. What is TechAviv? “TechAviv is a global organization of Israeli hi-tech entrepreneurs and investors that gather monthly

[ IStock_000005707390XSmall]Last week a friend in Penang sent a message: “I have a suggestion for the upcoming article: sharing of your past Friday Reflections  – I can see this as a very motivating approach, and people will benefit a lot from the learning, wisdom and experience [and] apply it to daily life, especially at this difficult time

SXSW unveils all 2009 films By Chris Garcia | Sunday, February 1, 2009, 09:33 PM SXSW has announced its full 2009 roster of films, including new titles by Austinites Andrew Bujalski and Tim McCanlies, Spike Lee and Kathryn Bigelow, as well as some big titles fresh out of Sundance like “Humpday,” starring former Austin boy Mark Duplass (

[ AtlasShrugged]I am one of those. Fiscally conservative to the point of Libertarian … by everyone. Many of those people are of course entrepreneurs and beyond that, many are also big business

Entrepreneur- the Successful Rebel Entrepreneur- the Successful Rebel Mostly, the successful entrepreneur is a rebel. If you want to be a rebel make very sure you strive to be the best

TwentyFiveRandomThings : Jared as Entrepreneur So today is the day I released: http://www.twentyfiverandomthings.com I enjoy the randomness of it all and I also thought it would be fun

EVA / 3:28 am February 6th, 2009 EVA Interviews: The Business of the new Space Age will be officially launched soon … * people involved with the various business aspects of Space. This will include entrepreneurs, lawyers

Craig Westover’s Economics Lesson on the Stimulus From the “I wish I’d written that” file, … and jobs that entrepreneurs would have eagerly created and consumers would have willingly supported

Rand Fishkin has been involved in web development since the late 90s, where he would consult on the usability side of the equation, … you to survive the Dot Com bust? What advice can you give to entrepreneurs about perseverance through

[ david_cummings] Celia Dyer and I visited David Cummings at his Hannon Hill offices today to talk about Shotput Ventures … to get to know David better. David made a great comment that, “entrepreneurs need to suffer.”  His goal … .  And, to achieve that goal, he believes that entrepreneurs need 1-2 years of suffering while they build

[ iptv_475px] “This is the year that IPTV is going to take off! … , but the business model is just not there yet.”  Yet neither content owners nor entrepreneurs can afford to wait

Wanna share it with us ?! I’m putting together a list of useful free software for internet marketers or SOHO (Small Office Home Office) … business owners. I hope to compile a reliable list that will save entrepreneurs time and money who are just setting up their businesses. I’ll list all the software I use frequently …

The second book I read while I was away is ‘Hot, Flat & Crowded’ (intro in the above video) by Thomas L. Firedman, author of bestseller ‘The World Is Flat’, three-times winner of the Pulitzer Prize and columnist for The New York Times. His new book covers the climate change and its impact it will have and can have on the global economy

Award-Winning IT Host Entrepreneur, Kate Craig-Wood Offers Some …MyHostNews.com (press release), OK - 17 minutes agoBy Chris Kivlehan Web Hosting News – Guildford, Surrey, UK – Kate-Craig-Wood, MD of Memset and recent winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the …

One of the most fascinating things about working in a startup is seeing how your work can disrupt existing companies and markets – for the better … on to their turf.  But to me, the real test of a new technology is what master entrepreneur Marc Andreessen

“are responsible for almost all of the economic growth in the US.” QUOTE BY RONALD REAGAN [[EMOTICON:THINK1]]

Don’t Gain the World at the Expense of Your Soul-The First Thing To Prosper Posted by Jeff Faulkner on January 30, … difference between the attitudes, motivations, and perspectives of first generation entrepreneurs

Cin Cin founder opens $8 million blockbusterMaia: the most impressive new restaurant in 2008by LEN LEAR Restaurant entrepreneur Michael Wei, … entrepreneur Michael Wei (who also owns Cin Cin in Chestnut Hill and Mandarin Garden in Willow Grove

Are You a Left Brainer or a Right Brainer? Your brain is divided into two completely separate hemispheres. Each hemisphere processes information differently. Your left hemisphere processes information in series. It thinks in language. It works linearly and methodically. Your right hemisphere processes information in parallel

Transmedia movies and how to Twitter a sci-fi show Interesting post from comms planner Graeme Wood about the potential for wrapping transmedia content around a movie, from the recent Wired article, plus a case study of using a fictional Twitter character to promote the sci-fi series Eureka. (tags: transmedia movies twitter promotion)

Are You a Left Brainer or a Right Brainer? Your brain is divided into two completely separate hemispheres. Each hemisphere processes information differently. Your left hemisphere processes information in series. It thinks in language. It works linearly and methodically. Your right hemisphere processes information in parallel

[ Image_8371330] By CHRISTOPHER QUINN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday, February 03, 2009 Millard Fuller, … ,??? Carter said in a statement issued Tuesday. ???He used his remarkable gifts as an entrepreneur

It’s lonely at the top. If you’re a self-employed entrepreneur you know better than anyone that you are completely on your own. It has often been said that a self-employed person wakes up unemployed

The Knack, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham. After years of building companies and mentoring would-be entrepreneurs, Brodsky has finally collected his thoughts in one volume. And it is fantastic

If we ask a question that directly, it would be difficult to answer it. We might say yes, no or may be. Any which way we would either be right or wrong. We would be asking the same question if it was any other person. Another question which comes to my mind is, of all the people in the fray like Vivek Paul, Venkatesh Roddam,

Twitter Updates for 2009-02-04 4 February, 2009 (23:59) | Twitter Daily | By: pawoot good night….. # i’m sick… … . reading Entrepreneur magzine # Pawoot Live Photo : : 200902021820_209 http://bit.ly/TZZF # Powered

My good friend Nancy O who lives upstate, sent this about marketing Kingston, a small upstate city as a tech hub, a Brooklyn of the Catskills. It’s from a blog called Kingston CitizensMark Greene, Kingston’s own Emmy winner and founder of Pecos Design, just submitted a proposal to the mayor that essentially rebrands the city as a tech hub,

I received an email from Christine Hamilton-Pennell, a member of the Economic Gardening Econ-Dev … can support their local entrepreneurs. Kudos, Rhonda! Christine This is an excellent model of services and support to entrepreneurs for economic development and enterprise.

In an exclusive interview with the Toronto Star, Premier Dalton McGuinty continues to set the stage for a provincial budget which will no doubt be … entrepreneurs here traditionally have not been “as aggressive” as their American counterparts when it comes

I want to get this on the table first. I hate conflict. My stomach clenches and I find it hard to breathe every time I know I have to confront someone about something. I feel like crying every time someone raises their voice to me or, heaven forbid, gets MAD at me! My name is Casey and I am a recovering people-pleaser

It’s been an odd week because of the weather. With snow hampering travel and several activities rescheduled I had the pleasure this week of having … a conversation.  So how you look, how you behave and having a clear message is all vital to the entrepreneur

by Travis on February 5, 2009 · 0 commentsin Blogs, Organizations If you’re a social entrepreneur or a financier/funder of social ventures, … providing a ‘Finance 101 for Social Entrepreneurs’ through a combined offering of basic finance … questions that financiers typically ask social entrepreneurs.  Great Bay grantees will find