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Startup companies are entrepreneurial business ventures. Usually founded by an individual or small team of professionals, startups are generally based on an invention, innovation, or improvements to existing products or services. The combination of this business insight, plus ambition and hard work, can create a new company.

Starting a new company has become easier and cheaper since the arrival of the Internet. Historically, the expense of starting a new company was higher, due to inventory, infrastructure, employee, legal, and advertising costs. Today venture capital is often less necessary, as initial costs are lower.

The Internet’s rapid expansion has also opened startup opportunities for entrepreneurs worldwide. The interconnected nature of Internet communications enables the rapid spread of information, inexpensive collaboration between geographically distant parties, and low cost website software and tools that enable the sale of goods via e-commerce and online advertising.

Startup companies are more common than ever. This is a trend likely to continue as more people worldwide become connected to the Internet and invest in their own futures by working together to build new companies.

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  • Anderson Packaging Receives 2011 Illinois Performance Excellence (ILPEx) Silver Award for Progress Toward Excellence


    Paternal Prose — Authority Authority: 147
    ROCKFORD, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Anderson Packaging, a business unit of AmerisourceBergen Consulting Group, today announced it has received the Illinois Performance Excellence (ILPEx) Silver Award for “Progress toward Excellence” for demonstrating sound and notable continuous improvement processes. the company ...
    20 hours ago

  • Start-up Visa program launched!


    Y-Axis UK Blog — Authority Authority: 112
    Good news for Ireland as the Justice, Equality & Defence Minister Alan Shatter announced a new visa program initiative aimed at attracting foreign entrepreneurs and creating business and jobs for Ireland.  Winner! The scheme will come into play in March with two different visa programs available; the Immigrant ...
    1 day ago

  • Mozilla publishes name and shame list of slow Firefox add-ons, cracks down on tardy devs


    Managed Hosting Services and Enterprise Solutions — Authority Authority: 129
    Mozilla, continuing its year-long crusade to speed up Firefox startup and shutdown times, has published a name and shame list of the Firefox’s slowest add-ons . The list is just one part of Mozilla’s new efforts to highlight slow add-ons, and to help developers make their add-ons more efficient. Over ...
    2 days ago

  • Game-like restaurant app MOGL raises $10M for a mixed bag of loyalty & charity


    cPanel Hosting — Authority Authority: 442
    MOGL , a customer loyalty platform that’s all about psychology and game mechanics, has raised its second institutional round of funding. The $10 million round brings the startup’s total amount of venture capital raised to $12.4 million. The new funding round was led by Sigma Partners, with participation from ...
    2 days ago

  • Game-like restaurant app MOGL raises $10M for a mixed bag of loyalty & charity


    VentureBeat — Authority Authority: 821
    MOGL , a customer loyalty platform that’s all about psychology and game mechanics, has raised its second institutional round of funding. The $10 million round brings the startup’s total amount of venture capital raised to $12.4 million. The new funding round was led by Sigma Partners, with participation from ...
    2 days ago

  • How Entrepreneurship Flourishes


    SOPHISTICATED FINANCE — Authority Authority: 108
    Image via Wikipedia Recently I heard a lecture by a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The lecturer was discussing worldwide trends in education. Fostering creativity was a major theme, which was not being fulfilled. However, the country-by-country analysis failed to consider that certain ...
    3 days ago

  • Rachel Chan, Co-creator, MaD Asia and Founder, Service Design Consultancy Innofoco


    EntrepreneurHeat | Indian Entrepreneur News, Startups and Interviews — Authority Authority: 128
    From January 6 th to 8 th , I attended the Make a Difference (MaD) Forum in Hong Kong. Organized by Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture and co-created by service design consultancy Innofoco, MaD is the biggest event of its kind bringing almost 1,200 young changemakers from all across Asia together. I caught up ...
    3 days ago

  • Photo Startup Makes It Easy to Create Albums With Friends


    Random Smart Stuffs — Authority Authority: 135
    The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: ZangZing Quick Pitch: Store and … Continue reading →
    5 days ago

  • Sam unwraps her entrepreneurial spirit


    BizOh - A Blog for Business — Authority Authority: 95
    “Who doesn’t love sweets?” That’s what Sam Birkett of Bournemouth, Dorset, said when asked why she set up a business supplying a sweet buffet on a cart for events. Inspired by the eye-catching array of candies often displayed at wedding receptions and similar celebrations, Sam decided this could be turned ...
    5 days ago

  • 15 things successful CEOs want you to know


    GigaOM — Authority Authority: 821
    As a young CEO of a growing company, I find that the most valuable insight I’m gaining these days has been from other CEOs. Certainly this realization isn’t revolutionary – YPO , EO , Mindshare and a host of other organizations are set up just for this kind of knowledge exchange. But who has time for that? ...
    5 days ago

  • Free Kaspersky WindowsUnlocker Disinfects Ransomware


    Raymond.CC Blog — Authority Authority: 98
    You may have heard of Kaspersky Rescue Disk which can be used to boot up a computer and scans the hard drive for viruses without even loading Windows. This is very useful when the computer is badly infected by malware and causing Windows unable to boot or is really too slow to do anything. Recently I discovered ...
    6 days ago

  • Intuit Backs UK Government and StartUp Britain’s ‘Business in You’ Campaign


    arezzo1.com — Authority Authority: 133
    Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks accounting software, announces its support of a major new enterprise initiative launched today by the UK Government and StartUp Britain, called ‘Business in You’. (PRWeb January 27, 2012) Read the full story at
    6 days ago

  • Web Design Business Startup Kit


    This Is How I Am Making Money Online Right Now! — Authority Authority: 118
    Web Design Business Startup Kit Our Web Design Business Kit Startup Provides Web designers a complete, turnkey Business In A Box Solution. It includes a comprehensive 198 Ebook Along With more than 67 Ready To Use Contracts & Document Templates. The Web Industry Is Absolutely booming. Web Design Business ...
    6 days ago

  • “Good decisions come from good questions.”


    Taylor Davidson — Authority Authority: 450
    Thoughts about mentoring experiences, on The Next Web . Startup Weekend Mobile, Jan 2012, New York, NY Ask a successful person if they have a mentor, and invariably they will tell you about deep, personal, long-running relationships that helped inspire and support them throughout their career. But beyond these ...
    1 week ago

  • Japan Digest: An app to curb protruding nostril hairs, Cave will focus more on Social games, and more


    SGEntrepreneurs — Authority Authority: 524
    (1) Chololi lets anyone send a pre-written notification to the offending hairy culprit anonymously via their email . “For all you people who are thoughtful and in a difficult position, we give you Chololi the deputy service for notification about nostril hairs” explains the site. (2) Following a disappointing ...
    1 week ago

  • Mute the Mac Boot Chime with StartNinja for OS X Lion


    OS X Daily — Authority Authority: 587
    Macs have always had the classic boot chime that announces the system has begun startup or has rebooted, but if you’re in a quiet place you don’t always want that sound to play. You may know that you can temporarily mute the Mac by holding down the Mute key during boot or reboot, but if you are looking for a ...
    1 week ago

  • Startup of The Week – Veenue


    TheEmployable — Authority Authority: 113
    The internet has been responsible for many things and one of the most significant has been the fact that it has made the world a smaller place. We can interact and communicate with each other instantly, no matter what the physical distance is between us. Our Startup of The Week this week embodies one of most ...
    1 week ago

  • Why Investors May Be A Bad Idea


    Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Blog — Authority Authority: 108
    Sometimes investors are good, most of the time, they may actually hurt your business. Here are a few reasons you may want to learn to bootstrap your business by financing yourself... Another video by Mike Michalowicz, Author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
    1 week ago

  • I’m In Cambridge, Not Boston


    Feld Thoughts — Authority Authority: 547
    Over the last three weeks I’ve had numerous people ask me how my trip to Boston has been going. For a while I corrected them and said “I’m mostly in Cambridge” but gave up. Tonight, after hanging out at the TechStars Boston Mentor evening and program kickoff, I got into a long discussion with a Bill Warner and ...
    1 week ago

  • L’innovazione digitale conquista Napoli


    Tiragraffi ~ Bastet e la Comunicazione — Authority Authority: 117
    Qualcosa sta cambiando in Italia ed anche velocemente, ciò che prima era solo un miraggio; creazione di startup finanziamenti alle imprese, nuove opportunità di business legati all’innovazione tecnologica, sta diventando realtà. C’è molto fermento soprattutto tra i giovani che sognano così di raggiungere il ...
    1 week ago

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