Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Polish express coach service is Souter's latest expansion Entrepreneur Named Chair of Saint Leo University Board Trustees Music promoter gets 21 months in Mariah Carey scam Kathy Ireland's New Gig Wedding Dresses Weiner Roast Congressman Bares All About Pics business wedding dresses Inc. 5000 Applicant the Week HopStop Applications Available Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition to Award $1 million Businesses on November 1617 Inc.com Daily | News Peter Cruddas become cotreasurer Conservative Party Web Comedy Focuses Startups & Entrepreneurship [VIDEO] Malaysian water entrepreneur wins global award Boulder faces felonies Your Future Car Service Treat Ticket debuts UK mainland From college dropout Prince Porcelain Comment Krugman We just never learn from mistake 1937

SCOTTISH transport entrepreneur Brian Souter yesterday launched an express coach service in Poland, marking the Stagecoach chief executive's second personal investment in PHOENIX, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Local entrepreneur and philanthropist Donald R. Tapia has been named chair of the Board of Trustees of Saint Leo University (www.saintleo.edu), one of the largest and most innovative Catholic universities in the nation, effective July 1, 2011. Saint Leo Universi TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A purported music entrepreneur who bilked a New Jersey investor out of $330,000 by claiming he was promoting a series of Mariah Carey concerts in Dubai has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison.... Swimsuit model-turned-entrepreneur Kathy Ireland is saying ''I do'' to her latest business venture: wedding dresses. Faced with some shirtless photos published by conservative media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, Representative Anthony Weiner admitted sending explicit photo over Twitter. But the Democratic lawmaker tearfully said he would not resign. Swimsuit model-turned-entrepreneur Kathy Ireland is saying ''I do'' to her latest business venture: wedding dresses. How this door-to-door directions, mapping, and route-planning service uses customer feedback to drive innovation and success. ******As we process applications** for the 2011 Inc. 500 | 5000, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. One that caught our eye was New York City-based HopStop. When Nigerian-born entrepreneur Chinedu Echeruo first moved to New York City in 1995, the Harvard Business School grad was quickly introduced to a problem already familiar to the millions of other city dwellers. Car-less, Echeruo was forced to rely on alternative forms of transportation. At the time however, there was no MapQuest-type service that gave directions linking public transportation, such as buses, trains, and subways. An opportunistic entrepreneur, Echeruo realized the market for such a service and launched HopStop in 2005, a door-to-door directions platform that stitches together data from various transit agency sites, providing one cohesive navigational experience. "The majority of our users are usually active and on-the-go, going to events, restaurants, social events, ball games, clubs, bars, restaurants, points of interest, and tourist attractions," says Joe Meyer, ... DETROIT, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Applications open on June 6 for the 2011 Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition. The Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition will award more than $1 million in cash winnings, plus in-kind awards of services, staffing and software to top entrepreneur Meebo's Web check-in service, Marriott's video game recruiting tool, the 'art of the little bet,' and what else you need to know today. **Geek Week hits the Big Apple. **Today marks the first day of Internet Week New York, an eight-day celebration of all things digital with discussions on topics ranging from leadership to social commerce. **Foursquare for Websites? **Meebo is rolling out a new feature that will allow customers to "check in" to their favorite sites, reports to The New York Times. **The new rules of hiring. **The Wall Street Journal explains how Marriott has taken its recruiting to the next level by creating a Farmville-like game for potential employees. **Will the Fed make a huge mistake? **CNN Money's Colin Barr wonders whether the Fed will make the error it made in 1937 that extended the Great Depression. **** **How your organization should handle risk. **In a recent post on OPEN Forum, Guy Kawasaki and Peter Sims discuss how and when businesses should take bets. Sims advice? A little bet is "affordable and achievable" while a big bet "requires a leap of faith." **A venture capitalist take on how to get funding. **Mark Suster, a VC at ... EXCLUSIVE: Peter Cruddas, the billionaire financial trading entrepreneur, is to become co-treasurer of the Conservative Party, alongside Lord Stanley Fink, The Telegraph can reveal. _Leap Year_, a new scripted web series about the trials and tribulations of founding a startup, makes its debut Monday on Hulu. Attendees at Mashable … Olivia Lum, founder of water treatment business Hyflux, completes journey from "hunger and poverty" to World Entrepreneur of the Year . Boulder entrepreneur faces felonies **Road Warrior:** Uber private car service is worth the extra cost - especially if you can expense it." />**Road Warrior:** Uber private car service is worth the extra cost - especially if you can expense it." />**Road Warrior:** Uber private car service is worth the extra cost - especially if you can expense it." />**Road Warrior:** Uber private car service is worth the extra cost - especially if you can expense it.'> Meet the 2.0 car service: Uber is a start-up that lets you book a stylish ride from a smartphone app. **Imagine your flight **arrives four hours later than expected. The airport is closed, and without a single cab in sight, what do you do? Soon you will be able to pull out your smartphone and order a black car directly from an app. You'll be picked up, and on your way to your hotel in less than 10 minutes. "San Francisco cabs are very difficult to find," says Travis Kalanick, co- founder and CEO of Uber. "You get stranded all the time." Out of that frustration, the idea for a car service available wherever and whenever you need it was born. That's the goal of ... THE craze for "deals" websites will continue today when Scottish entrepreneur Alex McNutt brings his Treat Ticket business to Glasgow. I was watching Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel (think Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster and Yelp) on CNBC last week talk about why some college kids might be better off quitting and starting a company. His Thiel Fellowship gives $100,000 each to 20 young men and women under 20 who are willing to follow his advice. I wasn't born with the entrepreneurial gene and so I didn't have the risk profile to do what Thiel is promoting. But it got me thinking about the story of Chad MacDonald, an entrepreneur I met a few months ago who did quit college to launch a business. Read full article >> Mr. Krugman, Government can not stimulate aggregate demand! The stimulus could have been 1.6 trillion dollars and it would not have made a difference. The real problems is that small time entrepreneurs such as myself and many of my friends no longer want to produce innovative products for people because any time we do the government goons coming crawling out of the woodwork and destroy our cost structure. Get OSHA, EPA, IRS and all the other government jerks off of our backs and watch this economy grow by leaps and bounds. We don't need tax payer money to do it. For crying out loud a COMMUNIST country, China is kicking our butt in terms of growth because government there is not on the backs on the entrepreneur like it is here. Put your Nobel Prize in the closet and go create a company from scratch, you will see what I mean. [url=http://www.bpdsecrets.com:1u8jrv6e]borderline personality disorder
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