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Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...ence sensitivity of securities firms with sizable trading operations and high reliance on wholesale funding, despite this strong recent showing. Although GS may well continue outperforming its close p...
Two New Google Trends Features
in Wangtam, on July 14, 2009
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A Day In The Life Of A Twintern
in Wangtam, on July 12, 2009
...k Raises Around $2 Million In Funding
• Android Will Live On, Get 'Sweeter' and More Social
• AP, Media Standards Trust Propose News Microformat
• Facebook? Up 10%. Twitter? Up 16%. Frie...
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Announces $3 Million in Funding
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
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Nanotube manufacturer SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. this week announced $3 million in funding from Michigan's Insight Technology Capital Partners, LP.
"Insight will manage the fun...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
... that allowed it access not only to $10 billion in TARP funds, but to a whole other publicly backed funding, including lending from the discount window of the Federal Reserve. Some of this stuff is o...
ExxonMobil funds climate sceptics
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
Fascinating to read the report of scientists warning Congress about "climate alarmism". It's fascinating because the crew includes retired manager for strategic planning at ExxonMobil Roger Cohen. Are ExxonMobil's footprints all over this? Maybe, when The Guardian reveals ...
The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...ct look all the more feeble.
Turns out this has all been in the works since 2006, when the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act was passed, implemented in large part by the Office of M...
Philippines Announces 10-Year Nanotech Roadmap
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 21, 2009
...n technology, energy, agriculture, medicine and environment protection. The roadmap indicates that funding will be provided to several nanotechnology projects, which intend to benefit identified indus...
The Coming Solar Revival
in IfEnergy, on June 15, 2009
... an abysmal period in which new commercial-scale solar business has stalled due to the lack of bank funding for projects. The defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers had been a major investor in renew...
NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 12, 2009
...ost environmentally responsible bottled waters on the market, NIKA offsets its carbon footprint by funding the planting of trees in a "NIKA Forest" in Nicaragua to naturally absorb carbon fr...
Microsoft Shuts Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US
in Wangtam, on May 22, 2009
... Parent, Closes Third Round; Funding Estimated At $5 Million
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No More Hydrogen Cars?
in IfEnergy, on May 22, 2009
... But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal support funding for hydrogen cars seems to have collapsed for now: The money was stripped because the presid...
The Balance of Life
in BootStrapMe, on May 10, 2009
Like many high pressure careers, bootstrappers face a problem that can sometimes be difficult. It is a problem for which no pat answers or prefabricated solutions are available. The problem: maintaining a balance between your entrepreneurial endevears and the rest of life.
You do have a life , do...
USC Gets $12.5 Million from DOE for Nanotech Energy Research
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 2, 2009
...house an alternative energy research center that's expected to receive $12.5 million in federal funding.
"The grant was included in a White House announcement that the U.S. Department of E...
H.P. Labs Pulls Out the Measuring Stick
in Wangtam, on May 1, 2009
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How Sound is Your Business Plan?
in BootStrapMe, on April 27, 2009
I recently reported at BizPlanHacks on some research that shows that business plans don't get start-ups funded by VC's. But what do we care?
A business plan takes on a whole new meaning in the context of a bootstrapped business. PE Hub 's Joanna Glasner rightly points out that the...
Business Plans a Waste of Time? Maybe...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on April 26, 2009
...oral student Azi Gera, studied business plans and found quality had zero impact on the amount of VC funding raised. Ouch!
To be fair, we should say a couple of things. First, the study looked at bu...
Gates Foundation World Malaria Day Blogger Teleconference
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 23, 2009
...ity of Washington
Drs. Marka, Foy and Rathod received GCE grants during the first round of GCE funding. Now six months into their 1-year grant, the researchers will provide insights into their pro...
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in Wangtam, on April 19, 2009
...cts Hot Titles
• Facebook rejects funding at $4 billion valuation, may not raise more
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Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on April 19, 2009
Adam over at Blogtrepreneur points out the prominent role women play in the bootstrap community and the larger world of entrepreneurs today. He uses suffrage as a point of reference; 90 years ago women couldn't even vote. "You've come a long way, baby." (Hope that doesn't...
The Pirate Bay Goes to Jail
in P2P File Sharing, on April 17, 2009
... Warg and Peter Sunde were found guilty in the case, along with Carl Lundström, who was accused of funding the five-year-old operation," writes Wired's Oscar Swartz .
"Representatives...
Microsoft Stops Mainstream Support For Windows XP
in Wangtam, on April 16, 2009
...es With Google Earth
• App Management System ExtraHop Scores $5.1 Million In Series A Funding
• Online Backup from Backblaze
• HD Cloud
• Start-up Hitches Ride on I.B.M. With Super-Charged Ser...
DoubleTwist gets funding; goes big.
in The Wired Home Weblog, on April 9, 2009
...lexities of setting encoding paramiters or possibly even cracking encryption.
They've just got funding and are now demoing a windows version, check it out! ...
The best entrepreneurs of the year?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 9, 2009
...entrepreneurs with key business concepts: completing a cohesive business plan, generating ideas for funding sources and investors, and finding ways to increase their impact while maintaining positive ...
Will Karen Mills Make a Difference at SBA?
in Bizinformer, on April 8, 2009
...cy. Mills nevertheless inherits an SBA that languished under the Bush Administration, which cut its funding by about 26% since 2001 and sliced staff by 18% since 2003. Lobbyist Todd McCracken, preside...
The Latest on PowerPlay Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 7, 2009
...ith PowerPlay Golf's brainchild, Peter McEvoy and several others are busy raising the necessary funding to make the dream happen.
The miracle is that they are able to attract any kind of investme...
Before You Start a Business, Do an Internship
in BootStrapMe, on April 4, 2009
Before you start a business, you can gain a lot of insight into you new industry or market by doing an internship in a business in the same sector of your economy. That was the advice of Karen E. Klein at BusinessWeek last month. She called it an "inexpensive way to avoid mistakes when you la...
Google to Invest in Biotechnology
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...e, will be based at Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
Google is open to funding biotechnology start-ups. "If we find an interesting therapeutics company, we'd be h...
The Value-Price Relationship
in BootStrapMe, on March 31, 2009
Entrepreneur had a good piece by Barry Farber earlier this month on how the relationship between value and price can make or break your business. I remember seeing this statement above a local printer's office:
Price, Service, Quality
(Please pick two)
If you choose to lower your pr...
Support the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2009
in Allergies, on March 28, 2009
...s Management Act of 2009 get passed by Congress this year and to ask for more food allergy research funding?
The Act was initially introduced in 2006, but only passed by the House of Representatives ...
FED is DE(a)D
in The Digital TV Weblog, on March 27, 2009
...ness of LCDs and plasmas has just took a big blow as Sony has bowed out of research, citing lack of funding as their reasoning.
It's a real shame; if Plasma dies out, and nobody makes FED, where ...
The Personality of an Entrepreneur
in BootStrapMe, on March 25, 2009
Young Entrepreneur had a piece recently on entrepreneurial personality. It was an interesting look at the importance of matching personality to your job function.
The article interviews consultant Bill Wagner of Accord Management Systems. Word to the wise, we can't change our personality bu...
Private Student Loans Network
in Wangtam, on March 24, 2009
...gle Chrome
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Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009
... communal hedge fund and allow community members to submit ideas that the community gets to approve funding for.
2) Using frequent fly points to feed the poor: Currently many business people accum...
VC's Overrated...
in BootStrapMe, on March 19, 2009
Brad Feld had an interesting piece recently that I thought my BootStrapper friends would smile about. It was on the relationship between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. When I think about who I spend most of my time with, it's entrepreneurs. When I think about who really drives innovati...
Will Health Care Reform Affect Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 15, 2009
...a very interesting point about the way that the U.S. funds its own social safety net, and how that funding creates additional pressure for outsourcing/offshoring.
Unlike most of the industrialized wo...
OMNIBUS Bill Passes: AIP Funded for Over $300 Billion
in The Aviation Weblog, on March 12, 2009
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Tuesday the Senate approved the omnibus Bill that will provide funding for DOT, FAA and a few other federal departments and agencies. The bill provides the funding through fisc...
Confessions of a Startup Addict
in BootStrapMe, on March 11, 2009
Ivan Widjaya over at Noobpreneur had a cute piece Monday. He confesses that he's addicted to starting new businesses.
Ivan looks at the symptoms of his addiction (with an eye toward helping to decide if you share his problem). Then he looks at himself as a case study. I started dozens of busi...
Looking for a School of Entrepreneurship? Look No More...
in TJ's Weblog, on March 10, 2009
...experience you get from the program. And if your idea is successful enough, they may offer you seed funding...
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5289966
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The Bootstrapper's Fable: Is a VC Hunting You?
in BootStrapMe, on February 28, 2009
Scott Dig , a bootstrapper himself, had an instructive little fable for the bootstrappers of the world earlier this month. I won't retell it in its entirety, but the moral is that we often lose sight of our most valuable assets.
Scott's message is simple: as a Bootstrapper, your most valua...
The banking crisis and Eastern Europe
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
...l currencies, exposure to a regional slump in real-estate and an over-reliance on scarce short-term funding. That spells trouble for the major banks. Last year, the Russian stock market lost 70% and i...
Mark Cuban's Open Source Funding: Can Your Business Plan Break Even in 60 Days?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 15, 2009
...e's calling your bluff: Post a business plan that meets certain criteria and he'll consider funding it, right here, right now. There's a short list of 13 requirements. You can find those a...
Twitter Raises $35 Million
in The Social Networking Weblog, on February 15, 2009
...ng to pay the bills and stay online, you can rest easier now. Twitter just claimed $35 million in funding.
Several sources ( VentureBeat , PE Hub , TechCrunch , Mashable , Gawker ) have covered th...
Seth Godin on Succeeding in a Down Market
in BootStrapMe, on February 9, 2009
Mashable's Andrew Warner recently interviewed marketing guru Seth Godin and talked about how to succeed in a down market.
Seth's advice is especially powerful for bootstrappers in this economy. And it's also encouraging. Among his tips for start-up businesses in this economy: Recogni...
20 Bootstrapping Tips
in BootStrapMe, on February 4, 2009
Evan Carmichael has a good piece today that looks at ways you can bootstrap. What it amounts to is 20 tips for succeeding as a bootstrapper.
The tips are basic: Hire people on a part time basis
Automate wherever possible
Don't quit your day job (and we've said that before)
Form ...
Ponzi schemes proliferate
in Sox First, on January 28, 2009
... raised more than $370 million between 2006 and 2008 by promising investors 48% annual returns from funding commercial loans. Now of course, compared to Madoff's $50 billion theft, this is just s...
Will Employee Micro-Blogging Help Business?
in Bizinformer, on January 26, 2009
...itter - but designed for businesses.
VentureBeat ran a story last week on the $5 million in VC funding yammer just got. I'd be interested to hear specific ways that Yammer saves companies tim...
2008 年第四季度全球风险投资总额同比下跌 33%
in Wangtam, on January 25, 2009
gigaom 消息 ，2008 年第四季度全球风险投资总额为 54 亿美元，同比下跌 33%。全年投资额为 283 亿美元，同比下跌了 8%。
在刚刚过去的 2008 年第四季度，风险投资公司已经收紧了他们的钱袋。普华永道与全美风险投资协会发布的上季度全美风险投资报告显示，该季度风投总额为 54 亿美元，较上年同期下跌 33%。
2007 年第四季度，全球风险投资总额为 80.9 亿美元。2008年第三季度为 73 亿美元，第四季度在这个基础上下跌了 26%。2008 年全年的总额为 283 亿美元，较上年下跌了 8%。
Digg Downsizes
in The Social Networking Weblog, on January 24, 2009
...et to turn a profit, the company still has plenty of cash on-hand. They raised $28 million in fresh funding in September.
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3151960
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Bill Drayton of Ashoka talks to Google people about social entrepreneurship
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on January 24, 2009
...c one where he describes the philosophy behind Ashoka, his company, and types of the projects he is funding. The video also features some of his colleagues who talk about their projects.
It's ve...
Tasted a Good Wine Recently? Snooth It...
in Celebrate Wine, on January 21, 2009
...ed another angel round of financing of about $1 million." This is Snooth's second round of funding. So, hopefully the site will be around for a while.
Gary Vaynerchuck needs to start lo...
Building a Start Up from Scratch
in BootStrapMe, on January 21, 2009
Evan Carmichael over at the Young Entrepreneur blog has a nice basic step-by-step on how to start out with nothing and build yourself a start up business. Here are the steps that I took. This process helped me build my business with $0 in startup capital. Hopefully you can learn from my experien...
Chris Stokes: ADA's 2009 National Youth Advocate
in Daily Diabetic, on January 15, 2009
...his representative and senators several times in the past few years to discuss the need to increase funding for diabetes research and prevention, and to make sure they know that diabetes is a serious ...
Unemployment Benefits? One of the Risks of Going it Alone...
in BootStrapMe, on January 15, 2009
National Public Radio had an interesting story yesterday that highlighted the plight of many people involved in entrepreneurship and home-based business. If their business fails, they are just as unemployed as a laid off autoworker. But they are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Most people ...
Norwegian Electric Autonmaker Finds Funding
in IfEnergy, on January 14, 2009
... Treehugger is reporting that Norwegian automaker THINK has found the funding it needs to resume making cars. The Oslo-based company said that it had secured NOK 40 million ($5.7 million) in loans wh...
Nominations Open for the Biotech Humanitarian Award
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 13, 2009
...se
- The professor that has encouraged their students to petition the local government to increase funding for improved agricultural practices
- The venture capitalist that is funding a start-up in ...
The Place of Loyalty in Your New Company's Values
in BootStrapMe, on January 12, 2009
Jack and Suzy Welch over at BusinessWeek had a good article a few days ago on the role of loyalty in corporate culture - especially in hard times. I thought it was useful to consider in the context of building a new business.
Your business is off the ground and you've hired a few people. The...
Business of Biotech Conference At Moffitt Cancer Center
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 5, 2009
...rman and CEO of Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC as the keynote speaker.
Topics include:
Government funding programs for biotech start-ups
Raising capital from venture capitalists and angel investor...
Dolphins Inspire Nanotech Research at University of Nevada
in Nanotechbuzz, on January 2, 2009
Jonghwan Suhr of the University of Nevada, Reno has received a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation for his research on materials that mimic dolphins' skin.
"Suhr, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and h...
Fear Not! In a Recession, Fear Will Kill Your Business...
in BootStrapMe, on December 25, 2008
Brian Solis over at TechCrunch had an excellent piece early this week on the negativity and fear that comes with a recession. While bootstrappers are probably a little less prone to fear and panic than most other business people, Brian 's advice is still timely.
A tidbit from the piece: S...
What is a Bootstrapper?
in BootStrapMe, on December 24, 2008
...Dave Cheong had an interesting piece this week on bootstrapping. It was a nice, simple review of the concept.
"A bootstrapper is someone who uses his own time, money and resources to get a bus...
younoodle - or what is your startup worth?
in TJ's Weblog, on December 18, 2008
...ns in the last years the situation has only gotten more difficult. Peer groups are hard to come by. Funding is difficult (and done with lower valuations) because VC investors have to cut back on capit...
Are You Successful...?
in BootStrapMe, on December 12, 2008
Dan Schawbel over at Personal Branding Blog has an insightful interview online at the moment Romanus Wolter , "the Kick Start Guy." And Wolter makes what I think is a very important point for today's world: you don't get to define success all by yourself.
"A person is su...
Google Blocks World’s Largest Porn Torrent Tracker
in Wangtam, on December 8, 2008
...d
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Cash Flow: Solving the Problem of How to Get it Started
in BootStrapMe, on December 3, 2008
I saw a post last month that I like by Yaro Starak over at Entrepreneurs-Journey.Com about getting your cash flow started.
Lack of cash flow when you first get started in a business can be a major obstacle. Often the solution is a catch-22: you get a second job to bring in money for the start-up ...
Why the bailout won't save automakers
in Sox First, on December 2, 2008
...e finishing their restructuring plans as part of their pitch for the the $25 billion in emergency funding but the reality is these companies are losing so much money that it won't be anywhere ne...
Venture Funds Still Spending Big in China
in China Venture News, on November 26, 2008
...ke Red Herring .
From Ken Schachter's report: Venture capitalists poured $964 million into 59 funding deals in China in the third quarter, breaking the yearly record set in 2001, according to a ...
Free Guide to Social Media for Small Business
in BootStrapMe, on November 25, 2008
A Facebook friend of mine, Anita Campbell, pointed me toward a new free guide to social media for Small Business . The book is "Let's Talk: Social Media for Small Business," by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. I just finished reading it and recommend you check it out. The guid...
Going Broke Going For Broke
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 22, 2008
...13 billion dollar project in Macau , the gambling capital of Asia, because it can't get ongoing funding to finish. In order to mothball the project, which includes something like 2 hotels and 3 ca...
G20 undermines accounting independence
in Sox First, on November 18, 2008
...on Banking Supervision ? The IASB's precarious position is highlighted in a recent paper, The funding of international accounting standards by University of Dayton accounting professor Robert L...
