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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI
November 20, 2009 | Both Sides of the Table
Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct. Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. Good entrepreneurs are wrong often. Good entrepreneurs have a penchant for doing vs. over-analyzing.
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Entrepreneurship Lagging Worldwide Says Kauffman-Funded Study
November 24, 2009 | Kansas City Star
Firm formation declined in 2008 and in early 2009 in all 23 countries evaluated, according to the report, which was released last week as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, an annual celebration of entrepreneurship that is partly sponsored by the Kansas City-based foundation. Firms going out of business also increased.
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Silicon Valley's New Sport: Extreme Bootstrapping
November 22, 2009 | San Jose Mercury News
Bootstrapping — the practice of launching a business with personal funds, credit cards, hard work and chutzpah — has long been a catalyst of Silicon Valley's dynamic economy. But now, with investment dollars scarce but job-seekers plentiful, Internet entrepreneurs are taking the lean, Spartan ethos to new extremes.
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Valley Startups Rising Up from the Graveyard
November 21, 2009 | San Jose Mercury News
Today, Silicon Valley is still struggling, with unemployment at 11.9 percent. But some other economic signs — including a rise in the stock market, a rebound in venture funding this quarter and Wednesday's encouraging Wall Street debut of Internet security firm Fortinet — suggest that the leaner, recession-tested tech sector may lead a gradual economic recovery.
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Is Clean Tech Bubble a Threat?
November 19, 2009 | New Energy World Network
Bob Ackerman, founder of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Allegis Capital and board member of The Entrepreneur’s Foundation, on the hype surrounding cleantech, the potential bubble that is currently growing around the sector and the dangers of over-capitalisation.
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