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Fertile Ground for Startups – BusinessWeek

Nov

30

2009

History shows that great companies are often built during bad times. In 1939, at the tail end of the Great Depression, two engineers started Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in a garage in Northern California. Silicon Valley itself was largely created during the nasty recession of the mid-1970s. During that decade, entrepreneurs laid the groundwork for the boom ...
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TOPICAL

entrepreneur · recession · startup · vc

Entrepreneur network web sites – Google Search

Nov

3

2009

This a good starting point for finding entrepreneur networks and forums.
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GOOGLE GENERIC SEARCHES

entrepreneur · forums · network

Echoing Green | Social Change Starts Here | Social Entrepreneurs

Apr

23

2009

Since 1987, Echoing Green has provided seed funding and support to more than 450 social entrepreneurs with bold ideas for social change in order to launch groundbreaking organizations around the world.
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Types of Entrepreneur

entrepreneur · seed funding · social

We’re All Entrepreneurs

Sep

29

2008

My advice for young people from the West who are just entering the workforce is simple:* It is tough out there, and it’s only going to get tougher.* Forget about security.* Like it or not, even if you start out with a large corporation, you are going to be an entrepreneur.* Make peace with this ...
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Common Mistakes

advice · competition · entrepreneur

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