Voice of America:
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship www.nfte.com/ helps youngsters from low-income communities to build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial talent. In San Francisco, VOA’s Mike O’Sullivan spoke with aspiring entrepreneurs who took part in a competition to prepare a business plan.
High school student Vivian Chau, like most Asian American youngsters, loves a drink […]

New Era:
Chinese businesses have been at the receiving end, especially from local retailers and the construction industry who blame Chinese firms for, among others, killing the local markets with inferior quality products, as well as disregarding the laws in tendering for construction contracts.
Perceptions aside, nevertheless, the presence of Chinese products presents a window of […]

Wall Street Journal Blogs:
Anyone who’s started a business knows it can strain the best relationship. Even working together can be tricky. The New York Times wrote a story yesterday about the challenges of men working for their wives in entrepreneurial ventures. To smooth egos on the home front, many women made conscious efforts to give […]

Xconomy:
The University of Washington has hired someone with business chops to run the office that transfers university inventions into the business world.
Linden Rhoads, a serial entrepreneur at Seattle-based technology companies, will take over as Vice Provost for Technology Transfer on August 14, the university said in a statement. Rhoads has been involved in a number […]

Creating With Impact:
Reality 1: An entrepreneur is an inventor, although few inventors are entrepreneurs.
Reality 2: Entrepreneurs do not buy business opportunities; they create them.
Reality 3: Invention is contagious.
Reality 4: To an entrepreneur, the success of the invention - the business - is measured by growth.
Reality 5: Everyone possess the ability to be an […]

Indirector.com:
The business world today can be a very intimidating place for a Christian entrepreneur. You see, business today has gotten to a very competitive point. Money makes this world go round. All over the world some people would do anything for money.
This fact makes most Christian entrepreneurs afraid. Most think that money will somehow corrupt […]

PRWeek:
Visa launched a Visa Business Network for small business owners on Facebook in an effort to take its existing relationship with entrepreneurs a step beyond the business cards and services it offers.
The network, unveiled June 24, offers small business owners the opportunity to network among themselves and with their customers.
“Over the last 12 to 18 […]

Chicago Tribune:
On the way to launching a profitable food-service business, Chicagoan Eric Paul Meredith worked as an employee at four major corporations.
In between, he tried his entrepreneurial hand at real estate, dry cleaning and a restaurant, but he was short on capital and expertise.
This time, though, Meredith is confident his healthy-meal delivery business, AlterEatGo.com, […]

AlertGadget.com:
I stayed home with my children most of the time during their young years. I always kept them close to me. Now that they are older, I’m glad I did that.
My goal was to be a good mother, who taught my kids the proper values and encouraged each one to strive to reach his or […]

Thanks to their passion and determination, these outstanding women have made and continue to make a difference in our daily lives.

Women Entrepreneur:
They may not be celebrated in history books, but their contributions to the world have greatly impacted our society. The legendary women entrepreneurs on our list have constantly pushed the standards of their fields […]

BusinessWeek:
These trailblazers come from all sorts of businesses-automotive, design, technology-unburdened by the conventions of their new industry. They introduce products some consider shocking. Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world’s oldest professions: the funeral industry.
It’s a good time to deal in death. The first baby boomers are entering their […]

Napa Valley Register:
Only in America can a 19-year-old kid launch a million dollar business from a dorm room and grow it to a billion dollar empire.
Scott Smigler, now is 22, and CEO of Executive Concepts Inc., is able to pursue his dream, and thousands of other young adults are also finding success. Youth entrepreneurship is […]

Entrepreneur Daily:
Is traditional desktop software a thing of the past? According to a recent survey conducted by online payroll service SurePayroll, it is - at least for small business. Instead, many small businesses are choosing to use web-based software that better allows them to compete with big businesses. In fact, three out of four entrepreneurs […]

Getting Started by Kris Olson:
Have Financial Controls in Place
Because I did not have the systems in place, like an in house bookkeeper that keeps track of all income and expenses properly on Quickbooks, I could never tell exactly where we were and what trends were taking place for us to plan from. I could tell […]

SuccessCREEations, Inc.:
Starting your own business can be a bit of a lonely affair, as I’m finding out. Sure Gorgeous also works out of our house. I go out to meetings, do outside local networking and I am a social media guy so there are people around most times.
Even so, when push comes to shove it […]

Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur:
1. Idea Generation: This process can be extremely frustrating for individuals or teams if dragged over a long period of time. This is an important stage and opportunity, to gather all those thoughts in your head, put them onto a piece of paper and make sense of them. This process requires […]

Teenage Entrepreneur:
Typical teenage entrepreneurs are not hard to come by. Indeed you may have inadvertently been one in your life already. In fact when you were between 13 and 18 there’s a 99% chance that you tried to make money in one form or another. I’ll give a run-down of the typical types of businesses […]

BusinessWeek:
Ian Ginoza, 35, sells sneakers in Wicker Park, but there’s no chance shoppers would mistake his boutique for a Foot Locker.
Sure, Ginoza’s Saint Alfred carries Nike and Reebok, among other brands. But the store orders shoes only every three months, in 12-pair batches, and when a style is sold out, that’s it. Saint Alfred never […]

BusinessWeek:
Entrepreneurs often get a helping hand from their parents. In honor of Father’s Day, we asked successful business owners how their fathers helped them succeed in business. The responses contain nuggets of wisdom any entrepreneur can learn from.
Anne Beiler, founder of Auntie Anne’s, inherited an ethic of hard work and risk-taking by watching her dad […]