Entrepreneur News - Fri Dec 30, 2011

Former TechTown chief Charlton gets Purpose Prize for entrepreneurial work Detroit Free Press Civic Ventures photos By Katherine Yung Charlton plans to use the Purpose Prize money to support baby boomers who want to go the entrepreneurial route. Randal Charlton, the former executive director of TechTown, speaks frequently about what he learned ...

Respected Entrepreneur, Activist Logan Dies My TV20 Detroit By Peter Neumann DETROIT, Mich. (My TV20 News at 10) --- The long-time publisher of Michigan's oldest African-American newspaper "The Michigan Chronicle" has died. Samuel Logan died Wednesday at the age of 78. He is hailed as a true, lifelong community ...

Entrepreneurs can check out new equipment at 4 libraries Rockford Register Star By Greg Stanley ROCKTON — Four local libraries will receive laptops, projectors, portable screens and other equipment and resources from the Illinois State Library to help local small-business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. The Talcott Free ...

Brian D. Robertson, 38, entrepreneur, MIT alum Boston Herald By Herald Staff Brian D. Robertson of Huntington Beach, Calif., a solar energy pioneer andentrepreneur, died Dec. 22 in a plane crash in Jackson Township, Pa. He was 38. Born in Toronto, he was raised in Fenelon Falls, Ontario. ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Entrepreneur's Top Five Resolutions For The New Year Monsters and Critics.com By April MacIntyre Dec 29, 2011, 4:06 GMT With 2012 upon on us and the third year of the Great Recession behind us, it's time for entrepreneurs – and those who would like to be – to look to a brighter New Year. At 95 years-old, entrepreneur Stan Dashew ...

In Katrina's Wake, New Orleans Enjoys Startup Boom NPR Williamson says it's no coincidence the entrepreneurial boom came in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "Katrina did many, many things, but one is the next day everyone became an entrepreneur. We were all starting over in some way," Williamson says. ...

Retail Consumers Focused Less on Price During 2011's Holiday Season San Francisco Chronicle (press release) "Zappos has demonstrated that if a shoe company can navigate its way through such a highly competitive landscape to becoming the dominant player in their industry, it's possible for almost any entrepreneur to do the same by focusing on delivering a ...

Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur GigaOm Video: The story of the year for artists-as-entrepreneur came at the tail-end, with Louis CK saying no thank you to corporate middlemen and putting his new concert video online for $5 a pop. Radio/Music: All sorts of independent entrepreneurs are ...

Start-Ups Need Staff To Get Investors' Cash Wall Street Journal One entrepreneur who ran into funding problems because of the lack of an engineering team is Justin Nassiri, who in 2010 founded VideoGenie Inc., a Menlo Park-based company that lets businesses manage customer-made videos. He says he couldn't initially ... l

Austin entrepreneur haven to close at year's end Austin Business Journal (blog) The small business incubator for fledgling entrepreneurs has housed many businesses at 6800 West Gate Blvd. including an organic dog treat baker, cloth diaper maker and a farmers' market. Ruth Glendinning, CEO and cultural strategist of Community ...

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