You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. The way a startup makes money is to offer people bettertechnology than they have now. Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. MORE >>

list of activities can be found on the interactive activities calendar at www.gewusa.org/event-central , where visitors can search by keyword or location. The entrepreneurship movement around the world is growing from strength to strength, and much of that momentum can be attributed to the annual Global Entrepreneurship Week. 14 – 20, 2011. MORE >>

Plus in a startup you could make much more money. This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. Computers are a familiar example. MORE >>

Interestingly, the reason there is a debate is that the real-time Web, and Twitter activity in particular, is by and large invisible to the standard Web methods of traffic monitoring, information search and discovery. The real-time Web (i.e., One can declare this confidently when even CNN calls it a "top 10 trend" for 2010. It should be fun. MORE >>

Back in September we wrote about Jyri Engeström and his team closing $775 000 in seed money for his new startup. Discovery is going social, social is going mobile, and nailing it is a huge, Google-sized opportunity that could replace traditional search on the phone. MORE >>