YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2013

How big are small businesses in Asia? Did you know, for example, that in Asia small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute between 25% to 60% percent to a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), constitute 16% to 69% of its exports, and employ between 52% to 97% of its workforce? Apparently, very very big.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Many of the loans currently being made are going out to businesses of all sizes, including small businesses that are in a position to boost growth in the economy. Following a boost in holiday retail sales, the service industry has experienced a fast pace of growth in late 2011 and early 2012. Manufacturing. Auto industry.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Despite all the negativity we hear in the press about the sad state of the economy these days, the latest Citibank small business survey shows that the majority of small business owners believe they are poised to grow or are already in growth mode. says Raj Seshadri, Head of Small Business Banking at Citibank.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

May 4, 2011 18:47:11 Reply 1 Flag this comment John Roescher Follow I went through the whole process! May 4, 2011 20:33:03 Reply 1 Flag this comment Harshal Kharod Follow Hey Sumaya, nice lending page. May 4, 2011 20:33:03 Reply 1 Flag this comment Harshal Kharod Follow Hey Sumaya, nice lending page. quiet interesting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2011

The result is that small business owners are left without access to capital.”. The Summer 2011 report also revealed that despite the high rate of banks declining loan applications, 71% of private business owners who responded to the survey said they did not seek friends and family financing after being denied from a bank loan.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs. Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. September 2011.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

These small business are each a shining example of the power of free enterprise and the opportunities it can create for America’s doers and dreamers. Chamber of Commerce has announced the seven regional finalists for the DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year Award 2012. About America’s Small Business Summit.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

in June 2011 for $400 million. Googles most recent and expensive acquisition to date occurred August 15, 2011 with its purchase of Motorola Mobility. in June 2011 for $400 million. Googles most recent and expensive acquisition to date occurred August 15, 2011 with its purchase of Motorola Mobility. Slide.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2011

585: Small Business Size Standard Flexibility Act of 2011 (Introduced 2/9/2011). This change to the Small Business Act allows the SBA to change or specify the definition of what constitutes a small business, based on the size of that business. photo: Erin Kinney.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

I started a couple of weeks ago with the first part of a post on small business trends for 2014; today I have 5 more trends that I’d like to share. Having said that, these may inform how you approach your business in the next 12 months; here ya go: 1. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I).

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

When disaster strikes in your area and your business is affected, what’s next? For many small businesses, the future can be extremely uncertain. During the process of rebuilding, most small business owners will ask themselves if it’s time to apply for a disaster loan, or if that is a viable option for them.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S. The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). Soon others were created.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2011

In other words, it is a tangled mess and nobody really knows how it will impact small business. Here are 8 possible effects and how they may hurt or help small businesses: 1. Raising the debt ceiling and reducing the budget without additional government stimulus is likely to slow the growth of the overall economy.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As someone who grew up using and ultimately becoming frustrated with the limitations of Microsoft tools, and grew up submitting and hating small-business expense reports, I hope I can convince you that we’re fighting for the same goals. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. Written by David Barrett.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In 2011, roughly 21% of working Americans qualified as proprietors – receiving at least part of their income through a form of self-employment. Moreover, the American labor force gained over ten million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2011. By our count, there are over 500 business tools serving this bottom-up economy.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. » More.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Small businesses which are built on the Internet and dependent on it for their livelihoods are threatened by an amendment to the spending bill passed by the House last week. These rules would effectively maintain a level playing field for small companies, startups, and entrepreneurs. Photo: acroll.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The fact that the entrepreneurial ecosystem is critical to job creation should be obvious, but there remains a misperception that small businesses create jobs. In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. It’s new businesses.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011. Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. Crowdfunding has the unique ability to become an incremental source of funding for startups and small businesses.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

After seeing the results of 500+ teams through the I-Corps, the NSF now offers all teams who’ve received government funding to start a company an introduction to building a Lean Startup. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

For 2011, I’m glad to announce that you can now hear my blog posts via a podcast that you can subscribe to, download or have emailed to you a few days after each blog post goes live. Clearshore is a “matchmaker&# that helps small businesses get their fair share of the $60-billion US government budget for R&D and innovation.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The Startup America Partnership is offering a collection of real business tools and resources, mostly web-based, to help startups and small businesses do better. This is the White-House-sponsored small business program announced a year ago. That was a great start.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

For small business this is great news. One of the most corrosive effects of the weak economy has been the impact on how, when, and where businesses have spent; small business in particular took a hit because of reduced spending. Related posts: Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness).

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Stephen Pitt-Francis • Jan 5, 2011 Why? Murray Robinson • Jan 5, 2011 Stephen.so a musician, I'd disagree, but as a business man I sympathize with the attitude. Tristan Kromer • Jan 5, 2011 I have given many people the same advice. Will Parkinson • Jan 8, 2011 Yes, you're right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 9, 2015

On March 16, I''ve promised to talk about " Everything Eric Ries Has Learned Since 2011 " - the ways the Lean Startup movement has grown and transformed since I published The Lean Startup. Small business? Massive government bureaucracies? I''m excited to be speaking at SXSW for the first time in two years. You bet.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Since 2011, we have invested in four Toronto-based startups as well as one Ottawa-based company, out of 60 active companies in our portfolio. Additionally, the Canadian government has significantly more rational immigration policies for foreign entrepreneurs than America, encouraging talented people globally to come to Canada.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It is a constantly coordinated, ongoing set of relationships with customers, government officials, craftspeople, and your internal people. In 2011 Falling Sky employed 20-25 people in the restaurant, brewery, and homebrew shop, and in 2015 that had grown to 45-55 employees. Relationships. Brewing is not a solo endeavor. It’s the law.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JULY 26, 2010

The disproportionate impact of government regulation and taxation on small business owners has been well documented. Well, it seems that when it comes to liability costs, small businesses are getting slammed. The ILR study shows that small businesses shoulder a sizable liability burden, having paid $105.4

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally published this post back in July of 2011. He ultimately went on to establish himself as a leading thinker on government and a guiding light as each of the new states wrote its own constitution. Small Business and Startups: Cultivate Trust and Nurture Loyalty. Benjamin Franklin.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Small Business. Small Business. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Privacy Policy - UPDATED 10/18/2011. Small Business.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MAY 10, 2011

As I wrote last week, the latest NFIB survey of small business owners does not paint a rosy picture of their mood. A second consecutive month of decline in small-business optimism does very little to encourage further confidence in a strong economic recovery," said NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She has also authored many best-selling books for Amazon on sales, marketing, entrepreneurship and small businesses. In 2015, Facebook anointed her as the Small Business and Facebook Marketing expert. Kelly Scanlon is the founder of ‘Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc.’ Tamara McCleary. Holly Ransom.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Through a series of investments and buyouts, the company that started in 1870 first selling radios, and then rubber and tires, became a government aerospace contractor in the 1990s. billion in September 2011. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. 1 supplier of landing gear and other aircraft parts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

SXSW 2011 PanelPicker – State of the Crowdsourcing Union: Three New Trends. SXSW 2011 PanelPicker – Beyond Mad Men: Are Traditional Agencies Dead? This year we have proposed two really cool panels and would appreciate if you would click through to vote and leave a comment!

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