Founder Institute | Press Page. Recent Articles FEATURED PRESS: Want to Graduate? First, Create a Company — Hannah Seligson Founder Institute Helps Professionals Launch Startups — The Economic Times An Entrepreneur Who Manufactures Entrepreneurs — Ian Mount How to wire Silicon Valley into your community Founder Institute Says It Has Graduated More Than 1,000 Companies — Anthony Ha Adeo Ressi: why Aussie start-ups shouldn’t move to Silicon Valley — Adeo Ressi This Entrepreneur Publicly Spanked America's Most Arrogant VCs.
. . . — John Greathouse Your Playbook to Starting Up On the Cheap: 10 Steps to Launch for Less Than $1,500 (Infographic) — Catherine Clifford Founder Institute’s Ressi on entrepreneurs and personality flaws — A. Funding: What’s Changed and What Needs To "No Paine, No Gain": The Story of FI Singapore Grad's Exit — Chia Yan Min How Does a Startup Incubator Really Help You? — Martin Zwilling The Dream Factories — Roya Wolverson 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching Investors (Infographic) Do you Have Entrepreneur DNA? — David K. The Startup City You Probably Haven’t Heard About: Building Community in the Hills of Tallahassee. Starting With What Comes Next It’s hard to hear in the room by the railroad.
There’s 100 or so people staggered about, talking in tight circles between sips of local beer (I’m told it is a saison brewed with malted rye). We’re tagged with white rectangles humanized by the Sharpie script of hand-written names. My first-name/last-name combo is terribly out of square with the name tag, which I can’t blame on the malted rye since the name tag happened first. One of the tallest guys in the room stands up on a chair and calls for everyone’s attention. Crazy Town, USA There are some cities that give you everything you need and others that make you work for it. With over 375,000 (140th on the list of U.S. metros), the Tallahasssee, Florida MSA is a statewide player by virtue of housing the capitol and a regional force thanks to its otherwise secluded location. Measuring the state of Tallahassee’s tech sector is no easy task, but there are a handful of ways to make at least an informed guess. Who Are The Entrepreneurs? [INFOGRAPHIC] - Progreshion (by Gresham Harkless)
Inventor-Entrepreneur Pairs Are Ideal for a Startup. In my experience, inventors aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually good scientists. These people need to find each other, and can jointly make a great team for a new startup. Historically, it’s also not often that a good inventor was also a good entrepreneur.
Some now argue that even our entrepreneur heroes, like Thomas Edison, really cheated on the invention side. Only a few great entrepreneurs of recent times, like the young Bill Gates, seem to have elements of both sides. Even he had some great help from Steve Ballmer, a real marketing guy, and others. I’m convinced that this is because the personal characteristics required for these two jobs are quite different. One idea, one focus. Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, have a complementary but different set of strengths and weaknesses: Lots of ideas, can’t focus. Inside the Mind of a Startup Entrepreneur [Infographic] 1 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 LinkedIn 0 Pin It Share 0 Buffer 1 Buffer Email -- Email to a friend 1 Flares × So you have an idea. Do you have what it takes to capitalize on it? Startups are fast paced, small and ever-adaptive, and carry a great deal of risk for participants.
Often they’re built around the vision of only one or two people. These founders must be mentally indefatigable, steadfast believers in their product, and able to stay one step ahead, because after all, you’re not the only on with an idea. Source: topmanagementdegrees.com 1 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 LinkedIn 0 Pin It Share 0 Email -- Email to a friend 1 Flares × BioLatest Posts BillionSuccess Staff Contributor Our staff contributors. we are all about entrepreneurship and sharing the stories of successful startups. Latest posts by BillionSuccess (see all) Infographic- Anatomy of an Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs are among the most celebrated people in our culture, but little is known about the backgrounds, experiences and motivations of these innovative company founders. For instance, it is widely assumed that entrepreneurs are young and single, or come from already wealthy family backgrounds, but a recent survey conducted by the Kauffman Foundation surprisingly shows quite the opposite.
We at Return on Change find these survey results helpful for filling some of the information gaps in our perception about entrepreneurs. For instance, the common stereotype that an entrepreneur is a childless, unmarried, workaholic with no time for a wife/husband and children appears to be false. Here are some interesting facts: Average age of company founders was 40 years old75% of entrepreneurs had previously worked at other companies for 6 years before launching their own70% were married when they launched their first business What are your thoughts on this?
Will the world replace employees with entrepreneurs? [Infographic] If the number of entrepreneurs keeps rising, we may well find ourselves in a world full of innovators, creators and risk-takers in the not-too-distant future. New ideas, new ways of doing business, new clients coming in every day… sounds great right? Well not for the regular employees of the world according to a recent infographic by Funders and Founders. The infographic argues that not only are startups turning away from traditional employees, but so are large enterprises such as Google, small businesses and agencies. Its basis for argument is that 30% of current large tech companies have set up seed funds with the sole objective to develop (and provide capital to) startup entrepreneurs. The main thesis is that entrepreneurs will rule the workplace, and regular employees will be left in the dust, replaced by none other than robots, outsourcing and independent contractors to name but a few.
And while one entrepreneur is great, many can spoil the startup-broth. Dingman center | Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. The Fearless Founders program helps prepare student entrepreneurs from idea generation to business launch. The program demystifies the venture creation process by dividing it into three stages: Idea Shell, Hatch, and Terp Startup, each of which with its own deliverables. Powered by the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship in partnership with the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), the program will offer students with necessary resources to meet their business requirements. In this first Idea Shell cohort, the goal for the teams is to identify the value proposition through market research and the customer discovery process. They will participate in a series of workshops over the course of seven weeks and learn the necessary skills to refine their business and better understand their customers.
In the final week, each team will be required to present on their progress and will receive $500 dollars in seed funding. Advanced Heliostats Andrew Oles Major: Mechanical Engineering. How I hacked my US startup visa. I’ve always been a problem solver. From the time I was a university student in Mexico, and later working in finance and accounting in San Francisco’s Bay Area, I looked for challenges that demanded big solutions. That desire grew into the dream of solving a daily problem that led to the founding of a tech startup.
I always thought the hardest part would be actually building the company up from nothing. That was before I encountered the US’s complex and rigid immigration system. Immigrant entrepreneurs are like steroids for GDP growth. We infuse the economy with foreign investment dollars that would otherwise be lost. Our businesses increase domestic demand for everything from technology resources to communications services. To realize my own dreams, I had to solve the immigration puzzle for myself. Next, I had to navigate the E2 investor visa process at the US Embassy in Mexico, or I would’ve been relegated to remain outside of the US. Johnson at Cornell > Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute > News & Events > Entrepreneurship Seminar Series.
The Cornell Entrepreneurship Seminar Series launched in April 2009 is a practical educational program targeted at staff, students, faculty, local residents and alums. April 4, 2013 Mind Behind the Startup The NY Code and Design Academy April 1, 2013 How Technologies Form Lee Pillsbury March 12, 2013 The future of crowd funding Sustain Communications CEO Enzo Villani, MBA ’07, delivered this presentation, titled “US JOBS Act and Crowd Funding: Reforming Capital Creation and Access,” November 28, 2012 The Unconventional Entrepreneur Minister Gligor Tashkovich talks about his entrepreneurial endeavors in Macedonia.
October 22, 2012 VC Investing in Things that Make Your Products Better Pulakesh Mukherjee from BASF Ventures talks about corporate VC investing and strategy. October 16, 2012 Startup Company Valuations Elisa Miller-Out discusses the definition of a B corporation and the benefits of becoming one. October 15, 2012 From Founding to Exit September 13, 2012 Positioning Your Startup for Success. Welcome to Forbes. Welcome to Forbes. Five Reasons 8 Out Of 10 Businesses Fail. Breaks my heart. According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. A whopping 80% crash and burn. But why? What can we learn from the colossal amount of failure with small business that we can apply to our own business aspirations?
In my 30 plus years as a serial (yes – hate that word too) entrepreneur, and through my exposure to thousands of entrepreneurs via my company Mighty Wise Media, I have seen plenty. And yes, at surface level the primary reason businesses fail is they simply run out of cash. But trust me — the cracks in the foundation start well before the brutal day of financial collapse. Thus I give you 5 reasons for failure and more importantly, what you can do to avoid it happening to you: Reason #1: Not really in touch with customers through deep dialogue.
An amazing thing happens when an entrepreneur sees a potential opportunity in the market, or dreams up a new idea for a product/service: they retreat to a cave. Meaning? Innovation Imperative: Change Everything. TNW Academy - Live interactive classes by well-known web professionals. Venture Academy. Introducing the Venture Academy Click here to go to our Venture Academy Online site Program Overview The Venture Academy curriculum includes lectures, Harvard Business School case studies, and workshops on various topics including: sales, marketing, accounting, finance, business law, human resources, business planning, business communications, operations, technology, and service management -- all with a Biblical worldview. The Basic Entrepreneurship Training Program The Basic Entrepreneurship Training program is a 35+ hour intensive "mini-MBA" that covers a core entrepreneurial curriculum that includes lectures all of the topics above as well as vision-setting lectures, business planning workshops and seasoned entrepreneur panel presentations and discussions.
Students also read, analyze and participate in the classroom discussion of over a dozen Harvard Business School cases to drive home the lessons in a real-world setting of real leaders wrestling with real problems. Instructors. The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed. Rosa Ramirez waits to be called for a job at the temp agency Staffing Network in Hanover Park, Ill., on Jan. 21, 2013. (Sally Ryan for ProPublica) In cities all across the country, workers stand on street corners, line up in alleys or wait in a neon-lit beauty salon for rickety vans to whisk them off to warehouses miles away. Some vans are so packed that to get to work, people must squat on milk crates, sit on the laps of passengers they do not know or sometimes lie on the floor, the other workers’ feet on top of them. This is not Mexico.
It is not Guatemala or Honduras. This is Chicago, New Jersey, Boston. The people here are not day laborers looking for an odd job from a passing contractor. Many get by on minimum wage, renting rooms in rundown houses, eating dinners of beans and potatoes, and surviving on food banks and taxpayer-funded health care. In June, the Labor Department reported [1] that the nation had more temp workers than ever before: 2.7 million. The Rise of ‘Temp Towns’ The Truth about Millennials. Wannabe Social Entrepreneur? How to Navigate the Growing World of Impact Accelerators.
If you're social entrepreneur, you care about your mission as much as your financial viability. So why participate in an accelerator that doesn't cater to both? Luckily, you don't have to. These days, social entrepreneurs are increasingly turning so-called impact accelerators, which like their counter parts in the for-profit world, offer key mentorship and resources to growing companies. They differ in that impact accelerators also care about scaling a company's social impact on the world.
Zak Ringelstein (pictured left) credits Hub Ventures' accelerator for solidifying his team and refining their value proposition. Photo courtesy of TEDx Claremont Colleges While the goals may be similar, not all impact accelerators are created alike. To help you navigate the increasingly complex world of impact accelerators, here's a closer look at the main elements in the impact accelerator ecosystem: Related: For Social Entrepreneurs, What Comes First: Business or Mission Photo courtesy of WorkHands.us. Fostering Student Entrepreneurship. 21 December 2012 – Today’s students serve as the foundation of our economic future, but they face tough challenges.
Rising college tuition and poor job prospects are making it difficult for students to achieve self-sufficiency and economic stability. According to a 2011 Current Population Survey conducted by Northeastern University, 1.5 million college graduates in the U.S. under the age of 25—or 53.6 percent nationwide—are jobless or underemployed in lower-wage jobs, the highest rate observed in the past 11 years. It’s clear we need to do a better job of providing our students with the tools, guidance and encouragement they need to chart a successful course for the future.
But where do we start? In my experience, one of the best ways we can help today’s youth thrive in a new job market is by continually mentoring them regarding entrepreneurship. Read entire article at [clintonfoundation.org].