MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

Upstate South Carolina gets voice to promote start-up companies. Businessman appointed by Gov. Sanford hopes to find seed cash to plant fast-growing businesses here

Warner said he had accepted Sanford’s invitation to join the board, which is charged with implementing the Venture Capital Investment Act. The act offers tax credits to banks and insurance companies in hopes of raising up to $50 million for start-up companies.

Looking for a few good entrepreneurs. The Austin Technology Incubator and venture capital firm Sevin Rosen are offering mentoring opportunities.

Entrepreneurs chosen for the program will work closely with Sevin Rosen partners to get their companies off the ground, addressing issues including technology development, marketing and recruiting senior management.

Kauffman forms panel on teaching entrepreneurship

"We want to take a fresh and in-depth look at all instructional approaches now available in the sector, and then fashion the kind of practical study program that will be truly multidisciplinary in nature and responsive to the real needs of a marketplace. Whatever profession or calling a student chooses, the impulse, and often the need, to strike out on one’s own requires a body of very specialized business knowledge and understanding that this curriculum framework will seek to establish."

‘Make things happen,’ entrepreneur, Andy Miller urges at inaugural E2 meeting sponsored by Montana West Economic Development

“Things don’t just happen to you,” he said. “You make things happen to you.”

County hoping to become ‘Entrepreneur Friendly’

The Georgia Department of Economic Development’s (GDEcD) Entrepreneur & Small Business Office provides a community-based program whose purpose is to build entrepreneur and small business strategy into the community’s overall economic development strategies.

Little Entrepreneur Series Teaches Kids How to Make Their Dreams Come True

The first title in their new Little Entrepreneur series by Michael Harper and Jay Arrington designed to teach kids how to turn their hobbies into businesses, will publish February, 2006.

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2005 Report on High-Expectation Entrepreneurship

High expectation entrepreneurship as all start-ups and newly formed businesses which expect to employ at least 20 employees within five years. 9.8% of the world’s entrepreneurs expect to create almost 75% of the job generated by new business ventures.

Creative Economy Report. Building an innovative and entrepreneurial infrastructure that will improve the quality of life and opportunity in the city and region.

"How do you have a good idea? Have a lot of ideas
and keep the good ones." — Linus Pauling

Entrepreneurs – Turning Dreams into Reality

I believe in dreams.

Preparation for Planning a Business Venture (Outstanding!)

"New businesses fail usually due to poor management, not because of the idea for the business."
— Peter Drucker, internationally renowned management expert

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